Palo Alto Prisma AIRS AI Red Teaming adds Crescendo and GOAT multi-turn attack strategies to agent scans

Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS October 2026 release (Oct 7–10 window) adds two structured multi-turn attack strategies to AI Red Teaming agent scans: Crescendo (gradually escalating benign dialogue toward an objective) and GOAT / Generative Offensive Agent Tester (an autonomous adversarial agent that probes defenses, forms hypotheses, and chains techniques in one conversation), enabling testing of well-guarded AI systems that resist single-shot probes.

These are research-backed playbooks (Crescendo, GOAT) that directly improve automated red-teaming coverage against layered guardrails — a meaningful capability increment for teams using Prisma AIRS to test hardened agents.

Organizations running Prisma AIRS AI Red Teaming against production agents with strong guardrails should enable the new multi-turn strategies to surface bypasses standard scans miss.