Detection Services

Prisma AIRS provides several detection services that scan for different categories of risk. Each service can be independently configured with an enforcement action in airs-config.json.

Available Services

Prompt Injection

Detects attempts to manipulate the AI agent by injecting adversarial instructions into the prompt. Includes jailbreak attempts, role-play attacks, and instruction override techniques.

Applies to: Prompts

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Detects sensitive data in prompts and responses, including:

• Personal identifiable information (PII)
• API keys and credentials
• Financial data
• Healthcare records

Applies to: Prompts and Responses

Toxicity

Detects harmful, offensive, or inappropriate content including hate speech, harassment, threats, and explicit material.

Applies to: Prompts and Responses

Malicious Code

Detects malicious code patterns in AI-generated responses using WildFire and Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) engines. Catches reverse shells, credential stealers, obfuscated payloads, and known malware signatures.

Applies to: Responses (via code_response field)

Requires code extraction

Malicious code detection only triggers when code blocks are extracted from the AI response and sent in the code_response field. The code extractor handles this automatically.

URL Categorization

Detects suspicious or malicious URLs in AI responses. Checks URLs against Palo Alto Networks' URL filtering database.

Applies to: Responses

Custom Topics

Detects violations of custom topic policies configured in your AIRS security profile. Use this for organization-specific content policies.

Applies to: Prompts and Responses

Enforcement Configuration

{
  "enforcement": {
    "prompt_injection": "block",
    "dlp": "block",
    "malicious_code": "block",
    "url_categorization": "block",
    "toxicity": "block",
    "custom_topic": "block"
  }
}

Each service supports three actions:

Action	Behavior
block	Prevent the content from passing through
mask	Replace sensitive content and allow through
allow	Log the detection but allow through

When multiple services trigger on the same content, the strictest action wins.

Block Messages

When a prompt or response is blocked, the developer sees a formatted message:

AIRS -- Prompt Blocked

What happened: Your prompt was flagged by the Toxic Content security
check. Category: malicious Profile: Cursor IDE - Hooks

What to do:
- Review your prompt for sensitive data, injection patterns, or policy violations.
- Modify the prompt and try again.
- If you believe this is a false positive, contact your security team
and reference Scan ID: 0d874858-bbf1-4fcd-aa0f-6f91919a9d8e