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Security Hot Takes: Are You Pen Testing Your AI Apps?
Explore why AI apps need new pen testing approaches. Learn key threats, frameworks, and best practices to secure chatbots and agents before attackers exploit them.
What you'll learn
AI chatbots and autonomous agents are reshaping how organizations work—but they also open up brand new security risks that traditional penetration tests don’t cover. In this episode of Security Hot Takes, we explore why AI-powered apps demand a different security mindset. This episode will unpack the top threats like prompt injection, data poisoning, and tool abuse, and walk through what an AI-focused pen test actually looks like. You’ll learn about the emerging frameworks, tools, and best practices that security leaders need to understand before rolling out AI apps to customers or employees. Whether you’re a security professional, architect, or executive, this conversation will help you cut through the hype and focus on the real risks and what to do about them.
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About the authors
Matt has a degree in Chemical engineering and a PhD in mathematical chemistry. He is also a GIAC certified incident handler and penetration tester and has regulated cyber security in the UK civil nuclear sector for many years.
Michael Teske is an Author Evangelist with Pluralsight helping people elevate their skills. He has 20+ years of experience in IT Ops, including 17 as an IT instructor at a community college.