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How I Built an OWASP Memory Guard for AI Agents (ASI06) (opens in new tab)

The Problem: AI Agents Are Trusting Their Own Memory Too Much When you build an AI agent that uses memory — whether it's a vector database, a conversation history store, or a RAG pipeline — you're creating a new attack surface that most security tools completely ignore. The OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 calls this ASI06: Memory Poisoning. An attacker doesn't need to break into your system. They just need to get malicious content into your agent's memory, and the agent will helpfully retrieve it, tr...

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