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The Invisible Attack Surface

How everyday prompts can become an enterprise attack surface traditional security controls miss.

Every deployed AI workflow expands the boundary of the application. Prompts, retrieved documents, tool outputs, user uploads, and agent memory can all become inputs that influence behavior.

Traditional security controls were not built to reason about language as an execution surface. They can protect infrastructure while missing prompt injection, indirect instruction attacks, data exfiltration attempts, and unsafe tool use.

AI-native security starts by treating model inputs and outputs as part of the system boundary. Once that boundary is visible, teams can evaluate it, monitor it, and enforce policy at runtime.