AI Agent Security & Threat Detection Tools

When to explore this layer

Use this category when agents consume untrusted content or can act through tools. Define the attack surface: incoming documents, retrieved pages, prompts, connectors and outputs. Ask which surfaces are inspected and whether the product blocks, alerts or only records a suspicious event.

ILLUSTRATIVE EVALUATION · NOT A CUSTOMER RESULT

Put a real task in the demonstration.

In a controlled fictional test, put an instruction to export supplier information inside a document that an assistant is meant to summarize. Observe whether the instruction is treated as document content, whether a prohibited tool call is attempted, and what an operator can investigate afterward. Use synthetic data and an isolated target.

Questions to bring to the demonstration

1. Which prompt-injection and tool-abuse surfaces are tested, and which are excluded?
2. Does the product prevent the action or notify someone after it occurred?
3. How are benign unusual requests separated from attacks, and how can false positives be reviewed?
4. What evidence is available for response without exposing unnecessary sensitive content?

Evidence to request

• A scoped adversarial test report
• A prevented or detected event with its action timeline
• False-positive review and incident-response procedures

Record what was demonstrated, what was only described, and what remains unknown. Preserve the product version, environment and date beside each observation.

Where this layer stops

No single demonstration establishes complete protection. Combine security testing with least privilege, data controls and task boundaries. A security alert does not replace a business decision about whether the agent should have been doing that work.

Connect it to the work

A documented task gives investigators an expected behavior to compare against: which information the agent should read, which artifact it should produce, and which actions lie outside its purpose.

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