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AI Security Guides: Free Checklists & Test Plans

The checklists, failure-mode tables, and test plans Phixe uses to find where AI systems break — written for founder-CTOs. Free, no gate.

3 min read OWASP LLM Top 10LLM red teamingRAG securityAI agentsMCP securityprompt injectionLLM evalsAI assessment reportAI penetration testAI security questionnaire

These are the field guides we use ourselves — the checklists, failure-mode tables, and runnable test plans behind our assessments, written down so your team can run them without us. They are free and ungated. If they save you a finding, they did their job; if you want the same discipline applied to your actual system, that is what our assessment is. Each guide leans on named frameworks — OWASP LLM Top 10, the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF — so you can trace every recommendation to a source, not a vibe.

The guides, by pillar

Pricing and buying

How Much Does an AI Security Audit Cost? — planning ranges for AI security audits, LLM red teaming, RAG reviews, agent assessments, and continuous assurance.

AI Security Review Before Enterprise Procurement — how to prepare the evidence pack before an enterprise buyer sends the questionnaire: scope, data flow, testing, findings, fixes, evals, and residual risk.

Prototype to production

How to Turn a Vibe-Coded MVP Into Production Software — a hardening path for AI-built products: auth, tenancy, data model, tests, evals, observability, deployment, and ownership.

Readiness

AI Production Readiness Checklist — the gate between “works in the demo” and “ready to put in front of users and an enterprise buyer.” A concrete pass/fail checklist covering trust boundaries, input handling, output constraints, logging, and rollback.

Buyer evidence

AI Security Assessment Report — what enterprise buyers expect to see in a credible AI security assessment report: scope, threat model, reproducible evidence, evals, findings, fix plan, and retest status.

AI Security Questionnaire — how to answer buyer questions about AI behavior, data access, RAG, agents, MCP, evals, evidence, fixes, and residual risk.

AI Penetration Test vs AI Red Team — how to answer the buyer who asks for a pentest when the real risk is model behavior, retrieval, agents, tools, evals, and AI-specific evidence.

Frameworks

OWASP LLM Top 10 Assessment: A 10-Risk Worksheet — one row per official OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025) risk: what to test, the evidence to capture, and the pass signal. The coverage frame behind the red-teaming, RAG, agent, and injection guides below.

Red-teaming

LLM Red Teaming — how to attack your own model before someone else does. Test plans mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10, with reproducible request traces so a finding survives the “can you show me?” question.

RAG

RAG Security — where retrieval pipelines leak. Covers indirect prompt injection through retrieved documents (LLM01), sensitive information disclosure (LLM02), and the access-control gaps that let one tenant read another’s context.

Agents

AI Agent Security — tool-calling agents fail differently than chatbots. Grounded in the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative and MITRE ATLAS: excessive agency, unsafe tool invocation, and how to bound what an agent can actually do.

MCP

MCP Security — how to review Model Context Protocol servers before they become a high-trust bridge into files, databases, SaaS APIs, code, or operational systems.

Injection

Prompt Injection Testing — a hands-on plan for LLM01, direct and indirect. Payloads, expected-vs-actual behavior, and how to tell a real bypass from a model that just sounded compliant.

Evals

LLM Evals — you cannot prove a fix held without a test that fails first. How to build an eval set that catches regressions, measures what you actually shipped, and turns “it feels better” into evidence.

How the guides relate to our services

The guides are the discipline; the services are us running it against your system under a deadline. An AI Product Readiness Assessment is Phixe executing the red-teaming, RAG, agent, injection, and eval work above on your real code, then handing you findings with reproducible evidence. Prototype-to-Production Hardening takes a working prototype — often AI-built — and closes the gaps these checklists expose. AI SaaS Build and Run folds the same testing into continuous assurance so it does not rot after launch.

For narrower commercial intent, the same methods now map to focused services: LLM red teaming, RAG security assessment, AI agent security assessment, MCP security assessment, and AI security review before enterprise procurement.

Read how we work in the methodology, or see the shape of what we deliver in our work.

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