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Evaluating RAGs

Operational guidance for testing retrieval quality, permission boundaries, poisoning risk, and downstream answer safety in RAG systems.

Risk & Regulation Signals

Permission leaks masked as retrieval relevance issues.

Indirect prompt injection through documents, tickets, or web content.

Poisoned knowledge stores driving confident but unsafe answers.

Built For

Teams building internal knowledge assistants and search copilots.

Security reviewers assessing document-connected AI systems.

Platform teams owning vector stores, ingestion pipelines, and retrieval logic.

Use Cases

Test retrieval relevance, access control, and source grounding together.

Assess how poisoning and hidden instructions affect downstream answers.

Create evaluation workflows that reflect real document and user behavior.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why separate RAG evaluation from general LLM testing?

Because retrieval quality, ingestion controls, source permissions, and context poisoning create a distinct attack surface.

Can this support regulated data environments?

Yes. RAG evaluation becomes especially important when assistants can touch legal, financial, healthcare, or internal company documents.

Need help validating this attack surface?

Talk with Eresus Security about scoped testing, threat modeling, and remediation priorities for this workflow.

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