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AI agent risk management.
AI agents with inbox access, tool permissions, and credentials are a new class of social-engineering target: prompt injection is phishing for machines. If you’re deploying agents, their susceptibility belongs in the same risk model as your people’s.
The Problem
Same attack, new target.
01
Prompt injection is social engineering
A malicious email that manipulates an agent into leaking data or misusing a tool is functionally phishing — persuasion aimed at a decision-maker with access.
02
Agents concentrate access
An agent wired to email, calendars, CRMs, and payments holds more combined privilege than most employees — often with weaker review of what it does with it.
03
Nobody owns the risk
Agent deployments ship from product and ops teams. The security review that every human hire gets — access scoping, risk assessment, monitoring — often doesn’t happen for the agent.
What Modern Looks Like
One risk model for the whole workforce.
Inventory & exposure
Know which agents exist, what they can access, and what they can execute — the same exposure mapping HRM applies to people.
Adversarial testing
Probe agents with injection attempts the way you probe employees with simulations — scoped, authorized, and scored over time.
Unified reporting
Human and agent susceptibility on one board slide. “Workforce risk” increasingly means both.
Cimento's View
Humans and agents. One risk model.
Cimento’s risk model scores exposure, behavior and resilience for employees and AI agents alike. Start with the measurable majority of your attack surface, your people, and add your agents to the same program when you’re ready.
Today: multi-channel human risk measurement and adaptive training
Today: authorized injection testing for agent workflows
Emerging: exposure mapping for agent deployments
The goal: one workforce risk index, human and machine
FAQ
Should we hold off on human risk work until agent risk matures?
Is prompt injection testing safe to run on production agents?
Who should own AI agent risk?
Measure the workforce you have.
Human risk today, agent risk as you scale — one model, one trend line. Start with the 14-day baseline.
