AI red teaming accessible to product teams without security consultants

A product manager with no security experience led a small, internal team to test an AI agent before launch. Over one afternoon, the team of three identified four critical security vulnerabilities, including data leakage and API abuse. The exercise demonstrated that effective adversarial testing does not require expensive external consultants or specialized hackers. It emphasized that curious team members with product knowledge can efficiently uncover common flaws using structured scenarios. The findings were converted into actionable development tickets and subsequent automated tests to prevent regression.