Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control

September 3, 2026 · 7:53 am 1 sources

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• Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control
  Help Net Security · September 3, 2026 07:53
  An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so. Gee Rittenhouse, who oversees Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Inspector at AWS, and Eric Johnson, a fellow at the SANS Institute, put the fix one…