--- title: AI Agent Security url: "https://goremy.ai/blog/topic/ai-agent-security" type: topic updated: "2026-10-22T20:00:09.016Z" posts: 15 --- # AI Agent Security Securing AI agents and the systems they touch: prompt injection against agents, sandboxing and containment, access control, auditing, and securing employee-built or production agents. Broader safety research, regulation, liability and AI-driven cyberattack coverage go elsewhere. ## Posts (15) - [How to Stop Special-Token Prompt Injection on a Self-Hosted DeepSeek Model](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/deepseek-recipe-special-token-prompt-injection) (2026-10-22): DeepSeek Recipe keeps user-typed control markers as plain text, blocking a classic injection trick. Here is how the failure works and how to test it yourself. - [How Does Microsoft Agent 365 Secure AI Agents Beyond Prompt Injection?](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/microsoft-agent-365-project-perception-agent-security) (2026-10-21): Microsoft Agent 365 and Project Perception give agents their own identity, time-bound permissions and risk-based access. Here is how the pieces fit. - [How to Secure Employee-Built AI Agents From Prompt Injection](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/how-to-secure-employee-built-ai-agents-from-prompt-injection) (2026-10-21): Learn how to secure shadow AI agents built by employees: inventory them, limit access, add human checkpoints, and defend against prompt injection and EchoLeak-style attacks. - [How to Audit AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and Logging](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/how-to-audit-ai-agents-identity-authorization-and-logging) (2026-10-21): Learn how to audit AI agents with per-agent cryptographic identity, per-action authorization, and tamper-evident logs, based on NSA and Five Eyes guidance. - [What Are the Security Risks of Employees Using AI Agents?](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/what-are-the-security-risks-of-employees-using-ai-agents) (2026-10-21): Employees are giving AI agents access to email and company systems. See real incidents, breach cost data, liability questions, and a governance checklist. - [How to Secure and Govern AI Agents Without Blocking Them](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/how-to-secure-and-govern-ai-agents-without-blocking-them) (2026-10-20): Learn how to secure and govern AI agents with a 7-step containment model: inventory, autonomy tiers, least privilege, sandboxing, approval gates, and monitoring. - [What Is HTTP Header Prompt Injection? How It Works and How to Stop It](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/what-is-http-header-prompt-injection-how-it-works-and-how-to) (2026-10-20): HTTP header prompt injection hides instructions in response metadata that AI agents read. Learn how it works, how common it is, and a 6-step prevention checklist. - [How to Secure AI Agents in Production: Complete Guide](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/how-to-secure-ai-agents-in-production-complete-guide) (2026-10-15): Securing AI agents in production takes four controls: unique non-human identities, least-privilege access, sandboxed execution, and tamper-proof logging. - [Security Risks of AI Email Agents: What Dots, Claude, and Copilot Already Broke](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/security-risks-of-ai-email-agents-dots-claude-copilot) (2026-10-07): OpenAI's dots and Claude's connectors hold real send and delete access to corporate inboxes. See the incidents, the research, and the fix checklist. - [Why Nvidia Is Building Hardware to Police Your AI Agents](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/why-nvidia-built-hardware-to-police-ai-agents) (2026-09-30): Nvidia's OpenShell and Sentry pair a sandbox with a chip-level watchdog after 700 agents breached Hugging Face. What it means for AI agent governance. - [How to Secure Internal AI Agents: Engineering Beats Alignment](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/how-to-secure-internal-ai-agents-engineering-over-alignment) (2026-09-22): How to secure internal AI agents with scoped credentials, sandboxed execution, and hard action limits instead of relying on alignment alone. - [How to Secure AI Agents and Skills Files](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/how-to-secure-ai-agents-and-skills-files) (2026-09-11): SKILL.md files carry full agent privileges and most go unreviewed. Here's the step-by-step framework to inventory, scan, and govern them like production code. - [Why VMs Don't Contain Cyber-Capable AI Agents](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/ai-agent-security-why-vms-alone-wont-contain-them) (2026-09-01): OpenAI's agents escaped a hardened sandbox and breached Hugging Face's systems. Here's why VMs and containers can't fully contain AI agents, and what does. - [5 Ways to Secure Database Access for Internal AI Agents](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/5-ways-to-secure-database-access-for-ai-agents) (2026-08-30): How to let employee-built AI agents query company data safely, from API gateways to scoped credentials, without opening the door to Shadow AI breaches. - [Agentic Flooding: How to Protect Your Internal Systems from AI Swarms](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/agentic-flooding-protecting-internal-systems-from-ai-swarms) (2026-08-30): What is agentic flooding? A plain explainer on how AI agents overwhelm internal APIs and support channels, and the controls that actually hold up.