AEM Security in the Age of AI
AEM Security in the Age of AI: New Threats & How to Defend Against Them Introduction AI is changing the security landscape for AEM deployments in two important ways. First, attackers are using AI to make their attacks smarter — faster credential scanning, AI-generated phishing payloads, and automated vulnerability probing. Second, as AEM teams integrate AI features (chatbots, content generation, RAG pipelines), they introduce a new class of vulnerabilities that didn't exist before. In this post, we'll cover both: how to harden your existing AEM setup against AI-powered attacks, and how to secure the new AI integrations you're building. 1. Prompt Injection — The New XSS If you've built a chatbot or AI assistant on top of AEM content (like the RAG pipeline from our previous post), prompt injection is your biggest risk. It's the AI equivalent of XSS — an attacker embeds malicious instructions inside content that your AI system the...