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Prompt Injection 101:

What It Is and How to Stay Ahead

Wednesday, September 09, 2026 | 5 MINS

Every AI agent your company deploys will follow instructions, that's the point. 


What it can't do is reliably tell whose instructions those are: yours, or an attacker's, hidden inside an email, a shared document, or a webpage it was just asked to read. Join Javvad Malik, Lead CISO Advisor at KnowBe4, and Jack Chapman, SVP Threat Intelligence at KnowBe4, for a walk through both attack paths, direct and indirect prompt injection, and what changes when you start treating your AI agent like a new colleague instead of a piece of software.

What you'll learn:

  • What indirect prompt injection actually is, and why it's fundamentally different from phishing a human
  • How attackers are hiding instructions in the everyday content your AI agent reads on your behalf
  • Real-world prompt injection incidents from 2025-2026, not research papers, but production system
  • Three "what if" scenarios to get you thinking about your own environment
  • Why the controls that protect people from phishing don't automatically transfer to AI agents, and what to put in place instead

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