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Agentic Security

Agentic Security explores the controls required when AI systems move from passive generation to active participation in enterprise systems.

What I’m exploring

How should enterprises secure AI systems that can reason, retrieve information, use tools, and take actions?

Agents can combine instructions, identity, memory, data, tools, and delegated authority. The Lab examines how existing enterprise security capabilities must extend across that chain without treating agentic security as a separate security system.

What I’ve applied

Concrete practices and inspectable evidence

The work combines implementation patterns, controls, evaluation, and current product evidence; it does not rely on expertise claims alone.

Switchkit security boundaries

External content is treated as untrusted evidence. Source access is host-bound and budgeted; cases and actions are tenant-bound; publication remains a separate human-authorized transition; production execution fails closed.

Identity & authentication

How agents, workloads, services, users, and tools are identified and authenticated.

Authorization & tool control

What an agent may retrieve, invoke, change, or retain—and under which conditions.

Data boundaries & prompt injection

How untrusted content, indirect instructions, and information access can alter intended behavior.

Human approval & observability

Which actions require authorization and whether activity can be reconstructed end to end.

What I’m learning

Applied depth comes from operating constraints

These are working lessons for technology leaders evaluating how AI moves from experiments into secure, governed production work.

  1. 01Agent security extends existing enterprise security; it does not replace it.
  2. 02Identity, data access, and tool authority must be designed as one connected control boundary.
  3. 03Monitoring model output alone cannot explain or govern agent action.
  4. 04Recovery and human interruption should be designed before consequential autonomy is introduced.

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