Can the instruction redirect it?
Untrusted documents, retrieved content, tool responses and agent messages can compete with the task.
oktsec / AI Red Teaming
AI red teaming. Test before rollout.
Find exploitable paths across AI agents, MCP tools, credentials and connected systems. Oktsec Assessment turns adversarial testing into reproducible findings and practical remediation.
Test the actions an attacker could trigger.
AI red teaming tests how an AI workflow behaves under adversarial conditions. For agents, the test must follow what happens after a prompt: which tool is called, what authority it uses and whether a harmful action reaches a real system.
Can that redirection reach a system?
Follow the tool calls, credentials, parameters and destinations that turn a response into an action.
Can the team reproduce the path?
Record the conditions, observed result and evidence. Rate severity using the impact observed in the test.
Could a support ticket trigger a data export?
The agent’s task is to summarize a customer issue. We test whether instructions hidden in the ticket can turn that task into an unauthorized transfer.
- 01 / Input
A ticket carries instructions.
An untrusted ticket asks the agent to send a diagnostic export to an external destination.
Controlled adversarial input - 02 / Action
The agent attempts a transfer.
We trace whether the agent calls a database tool and attempts to send data using its existing access.
Tool call → data → destination - 03 / Finding
We test the control.
Does parameter or egress policy stop the transfer? We record the decision and identify what needs to change.
Reproducible evidence for your team
Illustrative test, using agreed targets and test data. Demonstrating the path does not require exporting live customer data.
Test the paths that matter to your workflow.
Coverage follows the agent’s actual access: the content it reads, the tools it calls and the systems it can change.
- Prompt injection
- Test whether untrusted documents, tool responses or messages can redirect an agent into an unauthorized action.
- MCP and tool abuse
- Evaluate tool permissions, parameter boundaries and sequences of calls that expose more authority than intended.
- Credentials and data
- Check whether the workflow can access secrets or send sensitive content to a destination outside its scope.
- Delegation and approvals
- Test how identity, delegated authority and human review hold up across multiple agents and privileged actions.
From test scope to remediation.
Assessment is a scoped offensive security engagement. Permitted targets, environments, test conditions and deliverables are agreed before testing starts.
Establish the scope
Identify the workflow owner, agent identities, tools, credentials, data boundaries and permitted systems. Agree the stop conditions.
Run the agreed tests
Use adversarial inputs to test whether the agent can misuse a tool, command, file or network destination.
Review findings and remediation
Reproduce the path, review its impact and hand engineering concrete changes. Retesting is defined as part of the engagement scope.
WHAT A FINDING CONTAINSA path your team
A path your team
can act on.
- Conditions
- Agent, access, environment and input required to reproduce.
- Execution evidence
- The tool sequence and observed boundary decision.
- Reviewed impact
- What the workflow could reach, within the tested scope.
- Remediation
- The authority, parameter, egress or approval control to change.
Specify the control that needs to change.
Assessment records the tested path, the conditions needed to reproduce it and the resulting impact. Findings connect to a practical change: narrower authority, a tool constraint, an egress rule or an approval boundary. Coverage and retesting are agreed as part of the scope.
What we need to scope the test.
- The task and its owner
- What should the agent accomplish, and who approves its access?
- The tools and the environment
- Which servers, repositories, APIs, credentials and destinations can it reach?
- The boundary that must hold
- Which data transfers or system changes would be unacceptable, and what currently prevents them?
Start with a clear answer.
Is AI red teaming part of Oktsec Assessment?
Yes. Assessment is Oktsec’s offensive security engagement for AI agent workflows. AI red teaming describes the adversarial testing work; Assessment defines the scope, delivery and engineering evidence.
How is this different from testing a model alone?
A model test examines generated behavior. An agent assessment also follows tool calls, credentials, permissions and connected systems to determine whether that behavior becomes a consequential action.
What do we need to start?
Start with one workflow and a description of its agents, tools and access. The engagement defines the environment, permitted testing and deliverables before testing begins.
Does an assessment guarantee that every attack is blocked?
No. An assessment evaluates an agreed scope at a point in time. Its findings help improve controls; changes to tools, permissions or workflows can introduce new paths.
Research on agent attacks and defenses.
Test the workflow you plan to deploy.
Tell us which agent you use and what it can access. We will agree the targets, test conditions and deliverables.