Designed and implemented a hands-on

Designed and implemented a hands-on AI red teaming environment using Microsoft PyRIT to evaluate the security of a local Retrieval-Augmented Generation application. The project connected a Parrot OS testing environment to a Windows-based AnythingLLM RAG application, with DeepSeek running locally through LM Studio.

I configured PyRIT to communicate with the AnythingLLM workspace through a custom HTTP target and used controlled adversarial objectives to examine how the application handled requests involving financial records, customer information, payroll data, and restricted credentials. The testing workflow included API connectivity validation, isolated Python environment setup, automated prompt execution, response collection, and evidence review.

The lab was built entirely around fictional Kiso Secure business data, allowing realistic sensitive-data disclosure scenarios to be tested without using real customer information or credentials. The resulting workflow demonstrates how automated AI red teaming can be used to identify potential data leakage, retrieval-boundary weaknesses, and unsafe handling of sensitive information in AI-powered applications.