What does your prompt injection defense actually look like? Found 47/50 customer agents had holes in the same 5 places.
Summary
An audit of 50 production AI agent deployments found that 47 had critical prompt injection vulnerabilities, primarily in five common patterns including direct override and indirect injection via RAG.
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