What Made McKinsey's AI Platform Easy to Hack? And How to Fix it.

Enterprise AI assistants are quickly becoming the front door to internal systems . Organizations are connecting LLM-based platforms to: internal APIs company knowledge bases document repositories SaaS systems internal automation tools But this new architecture introduces a major security challenge: AI systems act as intermediaries between users and internal infrastructure. A recent analysis from codewall.ai titled “How We Hacked McKinsey’s AI Platform” demonstrated how this design can be exploited when security controls are incomplete.