AI Agent Security in Practice: From Prompt Injection to Privilege Misuse

AI Agent Security in Practice: From Prompt Injection to Privilege Misuse is a course that covers major security threats that may arise during the adoption and operation of AI agents, along with ways to address them. You will gain a structured understanding of security issues that can occur with AI agents, including prompt injection, sensitive information exposure, tool-call manipulation, and excessive permissions. You will also learn practical countermeasures applicable in the field, such as least privilege, input and output validation, execution approval, and log monitoring. Through this course, you will develop the security skills needed to plan, build, and operate AI agents more safely.

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Course period 12 months

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What you will gain after the course

  • Understanding AI Agent Security Threats

  • Acquisition of Practical Security Control Methods

  • Establishing the capability to operate agents safely

Beyond Generative AI: Security Threats and Response Strategies for Autonomous AI Agents

Why Are AI Agents Dangerous? From Attack Scenarios to Security Design


What can you learn from this course?


1. The Structure of AI Agents and New Security Risks

Understand how AI agents differ from conventional generative AI.

We explore what kinds of attack surfaces are created as LLMs, memory, plugins, APIs, external tools, databases, and more become interconnected.

2. Prompt Injection Attacks

You will understand everything from Direct Prompt Injection, in which users directly enter malicious commands, to Indirect Prompt Injection, in which AI is manipulated through commands hidden in external documents, web pages, emails, and more.

3. Privilege Misuse and Excessive Permissions Issues

Analyze the risks that may arise when an AI agent is granted permissions such as sending emails, deleting files, accessing databases, and modifying systems.

In particular, you will understand why the principle of least privilege (Least Privilege)​ is important in AI agent environments.

4. Tool Calling and API Security

We examine security issues that can arise when AI agents call external APIs and tools.

Understand real-world attack scenarios such as incorrect tool selection, dangerous command execution, and misuse of API permissions.

5. Sensitive Information and Data Leakage

We examine the risk of data leaks that may occur when AI agents access internal documents, customer information, personal information, authentication credentials, and more.

You will also learn the access control methods required in environments integrating RAG with external data.

6. AI Agent Memory Attacks

Understand Memory Poisoning, information contamination, and persistent attack possibilities that can occur when AI agents remember previous conversations or task information.

7. Security in Multi-Agent Environments

We examine how errors or attacks from one agent can spread to other agents in a Multi-Agent environment where multiple AI agents collaborate with one another.

8. AI Agent Security Design

Learn the key principles for operating AI agents safely.

Design practical security structures through least privilege, Human-in-the-Loop, input/output validation, tool restrictions, approval processes, monitoring, and log management.


In what fields is this technology used?

AI agent security is not a technology needed only in specific industries.

AI agents are becoming important in all fields where they connect with actual business systems.


Enterprise workflow automation

AI agents are used to automate tasks such as email composition, schedule management, document processing, report generation, and data retrieval.

Because AI accesses corporate systems, user permissions and data access controls are important.

Finance & Insurance

AI agents can be used by banks, card companies, insurance companies, and securities firms for customer consultations, investment information analysis, suspicious transaction detection, and internal workflow automation.

Because they handle financial information and personal data, strong access controls and auditing capabilities are required.

Manufacturing·Smart Factory

AI agents can be used to automate production data analysis, equipment anomaly detection, work instructions, and maintenance tasks.

If AI is connected to OT and industrial control systems in the future, the importance of AI agent security may become even greater.

Cloud · DevOps

AI agents can perform tasks such as cloud resource management, code writing, deployment, and incident response.

However, permission management is important because, if excessive permissions are granted, an AI’s incorrect decisions can lead to actual system changes.

Software development

AI coding agents are being used for code writing, testing, code reviews, deployment automation, and more.

Risks such as malicious code generation, repository access, and secret information exposure must also be considered together.

Security Operations & Cybersecurity

AI agents can be utilized to automate log analysis, threat detection, security event analysis, and incident response tasks.

Conversely, attackers can also exploit AI agents as attack targets, which is why a new security framework is needed.

Recommended for

  • Anyone interested in generative AI and AI agent security

  • Information Security Officer and Security Engineer

  • Developers building AI·LLM services

  • Corporate personnel looking to build AI agent systems

  • Cloud and DevOps engineers

  • Security architects and consultants

  • Planners promoting AI-based work automation

  • Those who want to understand new cyber threats in the era of generative AI



What you'll learn

AI Agent Security (AI Agent Security)

It can be described as "security for safely managing AI that makes decisions and takes action on its own".

Prompt Injection

It is an "attack that inserts hidden malicious instructions into an AI to alter its decisions and actions."

Notes Before Taking the Course

Practice Environment

  • Operating system and version (OS): OS type and version, such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and iOS

  • Tools used: Software/hardware versions and paid plans required for the hands-on exercises, whether virtual machines are used, etc.

  • PC specifications: Recommended specifications for running the program, including the CPU, memory, disk, graphics card, etc.

Learning materials

  • Formats of the learning materials provided (PPT, cloud links, text, source code, assets, programs, example problems, etc.)

  • Quantity and file size, features and notes regarding other learning materials, etc.

Prerequisite Knowledge and Important Notes

  • Required prerequisite knowledge considering the learning difficulty

  • Information directly related to taking the course, such as the quality of the lecture videos (audio/video), and recommended study methods

  • Questions/answers and information regarding future updates

  • Notice regarding copyright of lectures and learning materials

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Who is this course right for?

  • Those interested in AI agents and generative AI security

  • Information Security Officer and Security Engineer

  • AI·LLM Service Developer

  • Person responsible for AI adoption and planning at a company

  • Cloud, DevOps, and system operations specialist

Need to know before starting?

  • Basic interest in and understanding of AI agents

  • Basic Concepts of Prompts and Generative AI

  • Basic Knowledge of Information Security

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