How to Secure an AI Agent That Can Access External Tools

Description and use

<p>Your agent can read email, query databases, and call APIs. Here is how to make sure it only does what it should.</p> <h2> When an AI Agent Can Do More Than Answer Questions </h2> <p>Picture an internal assistant at a mid-sized company. It reads incoming emails, searches the web, queries a customer database, creates support tickets, and sends messages through external APIs. Employees love it because it saves hours every week. (This is a hypothetical scenario, not a real incident.)<br> A plain chatbot can say something wrong. An agent with tools can do something wrong. If it reads a malicious

Problem

<p>Your agent can read email, query databases, and call APIs. Here is how to make sure it only does what it should.</p> <h2> When an AI Agent Can Do More Than Answer Questions </h2> <p>Picture an internal assistant at a mid-sized company. It reads incoming emails, searches the web, queries a customer database, creates support tickets, and sends messages through external APIs. Employees love it because it saves hours every week. (This is a hypothetical scenario, not a real incident.)<br> A plain chatbot can say something wrong. An agent with tools can do something wrong. If it reads a malicious

Outcome

<p>Your agent can read email, query databases, and call APIs. Here is how to make sure it only does what it should.</p> <h2> When an AI Agent Can Do More Than Answer Questions </h2> <p>Picture an internal assistant at a mid-sized company. It reads incoming emails, searches the web, queries a customer database, creates support tickets, and sends messages through external APIs. Employees love it because it saves hours every week. (This is a hypothetical scenario, not a real incident.)<br> A plain chatbot can say something wrong. An agent with tools can do something wrong. If it reads a malicious

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How to Secure an AI Agent That Can Access External Tools

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