The agentic AI 'lethal trifecta': What CISOs should know | TechTarget
By now, every CISO has probably heard the phrase lethal trifecta tossed around in AI security discussions. The term refers to a combination of three agentic AI properties that, together, make agents vulnerable to attack and put the enterprises using them at massive risk.
Programmer Simon Willison is credited with coining the term lethal trifecta as it relates to agentic AI. Unfortunately, the cybersecurity field does not currently agree on a universal definition: different cybersecurity analysts and AI researchers often pick different trios of properties. And, of course, there's no need to stop at three, but we lack a cutesy term like quadfecta or quintfecta to describe a longer list.
That said, conversations about the agentic AI lethal trifecta often center on the following three properties, as initially described by Willison:
- Agent access to private or sensitive information, whether personal information about staff or customers or confidential intellectual property.
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