
What attacks does NIST considerIn Chapter 4 on agentic systems, the authors examine attacks according to the stages of an agent’s operation, objectives, and attacker capabilities. An attacker may intervene in task formulation, planning, action execution, or the retrieval of tool outputs and the refinement of the subsequent plan.Among the attacker’s objectives, NIST identifies loss of availability, loss of integrity, disclosure of sensitive data, and the us