12 Security and Ethics

Phase 3 - Systems
Stage 12 of 14. Previous: Stage 11 - Evaluation and Observability. Next: Stage 13 - Production Deployment.

Goal

Learn the main security, privacy, and safety risks in agentic systems.

Learn

• Prompt injection and jailbreaks
• Insecure output handling
• Excessive agency
• Tool sandboxing and permissions
• Data privacy and PII redaction
• Bias, toxicity, and guardrails
• Safety and red-team testing
• OWASP LLM Top 10 concepts for production systems

Build

Create a threat model and red-team checklist for one agent project. Add mitigations for the highest-risk failures.

Exit Criteria

• You can identify unsafe tool access.
• You can design human approval for destructive actions.
• You can test for prompt injection and sensitive data leakage.

Checkpoint

Use the Stage 12 checkpoint before moving on.