New Features - Prisma AIRS - June 2026

AI Red Teaming introduces Privilege Misuse as a new attack category under Agent Scan for agent target types. This category tests whether AI agents correctly enforce authorization boundaries when subjected to manipulation attempts by users seeking unauthorized access. Privilege Misuse aligns with Privilege Compromise (T3), Identity & Privilege Abuse, a critical vulnerability class defined in the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Systems.

AI agents in enterprise environments operate with access to sensitive tools and data under role-based access control (RBAC). Unlike traditional applications, agents make autonomous decisions about permissible actions, which introduces the risk of a user manipulating an agent into bypassing privilege boundaries and executing unauthorized operations. Privilege Misuse testing is designed to surface these authorization gaps before they can be exploited in production.

This category evaluates whether an agent can be manipulated into performing unauthorized actions across four key areas: users claiming higher roles to access restricted functionality, accessing data belonging to other users at the same privilege level, tricking the agent into leveraging its own elevated privileges on a user's behalf, and convincing the agent to permanently elevate a user's permissions.

Privilege Misuse will be available as a new goal category under Agent Scan for agent target types. No additional configuration is required. When Auto-Generated Goals are selected during agent scan configuration, Privilege Misuse goals are automatically generated based on the roles and permissions detected in the agent's environment.

If you are deploying AI agents that serve users with different roles and permissions, Privilege Misuse testing helps you identify authorization vulnerabilities before they can be exploited in production. Whether your agents handle IT support tickets, manage financial workflows, or process customer data, this category ensures that your agents respect the access boundaries you've defined and flags where they don't.