The premise
- Before deploying to production, you need to know how your system breaks (
14:22). - Red teaming = deliberately trying to break your own system (
14:22).
The three attack categories tested
| Category | Question it asks |
|---|---|
| Prompt injection | Can someone inject a prompt that makes the system ignore its instructions? (14:22) |
| Information evasion | Can someone get it to leak information it shouldn't share? (14:22) |
| Biased opinions | Can someone get biased or harmful outputs by phrasing questions in certain ways? (14:47) |
- Goal: find the weakness before your users do (
14:55). - Stated as not optional: if the RAG system touches real users or real business decisions, you need to know its failure modes (
14:55).
Closing recap of the full architecture
The eight pieces, as summarized at the end (14:55, 15:24):
- Data ingestion that preserves structure and creates rich metadata
- A database layer combining vectors + relational data
- Hybrid retrieval — semantic and keyword
- A reasoning engine that plans and executes complex queries
- Multi-agent coordination for multi-step problems
- Validation nodes that catch errors before users see them
- Evaluation to measure how well things actually work
- Stress testing to find the cracks
"It's a lot more than chunk, embed, retrieve, generate" — but it's what production requires (
15:24).