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AI Security Ops
Black Hills Information Security
OWASP Agentic Top 10 [Part 1] | Episode 70
SEP 21, 202623 MIN
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Description
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down the first five risks in the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 (Part 1).
Agentic skills can give AI systems reusable instructions, workflows, and capabilities — but they also introduce a new attack surface. A skill may look like a simple markdown file, yet the agent following those instructions could have access to your filesystem, credentials, network, shell, or other sensitive resources.
We dig into:
- AST01: Malicious Skills
- AST02: Supply Chain Compromise
- AST03: Overprivileged Skills
- AST04: Insecure Metadata
- AST05: Untrusted External Instructions
- Why skills should be treated more like software than configuration
- How excessive permissions increase an agent’s blast radius
- Why external content creates indirect prompt injection risks
- How isolation, least privilege, and trusted sources can reduce risk
The takeaway: “just markdown” isn’t necessarily harmless when an AI agent can act on what it reads.
This is Part 1 of our look at the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, covering AST01 through AST05.
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(00:00) - Intro: OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, Part 1
(01:59) - AST01: Malicious Skills
(06:13) - AST02: Supply Chain Compromise
(09:37) - AST03: Overprivileged Skills
(13:56) - AST04: Insecure Metadata
(16:34) - AST05: Untrusted External Instructions
(22:36) - Final Takeaways and Part 2 Preview
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Brian Fehrman - Host
Derek Banks - Host
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