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Agentic AI Security: Protecting Autonomous Agents, AI Workflows, and Intelligent Systems in the Enterprise
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General ComputersGeneral LawComputer Security
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Agentic AI Security: Protecting Autonomous Agents, AI Workflows, and Intelligent Systems in the Enterprise
Your organisation is deploying AI agents that plan, remember, call APIs, and act across your systems. That shift drives faster operations, but it expands your attack surface beyond traditional application security. One compromised prompt, poisoned document, or over-privileged tool call can turn an agent into a pathway for data theft, fraud, or systemic disruption.
Agentic AI Security is a practical, enterprise-ready book to deploy agents with confidence capturing the value of agentic AI without betting reputation, compliance, or customer trust on ad hoc controls.
What you will be able to do after reading this book- Deploy agents safely at scale. Map risks across single-agent, multi-agent, and workflow architectures and design controls that match real production behavior.
- Defend against agent-specific attacks. Recognise and mitigate prompt injection (direct and indirect), tool abuse and tool poisoning, memory manipulation, multi-agent impersonation, and cross-session data leakage before they become incidents.
- Threat-model agent systems with confidence. Apply trust-boundary analysis, STRIDE, and MITRE ATLAS to agentic AI, and walk through a complete threat-modeling example you can reuse on your own projects.
- Lock down identity, access, and secrets. Establish agent identities, enforce least privilege, manage API keys and tokens, and implement authorisation policies that keep autonomy from becoming uncontrolled privilege.
- Protect memory, RAG, and knowledge stores. Secure short and long-term agent memory, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines against poisoning, unauthorised retrieval, and governance failures.
- Harden tools, APIs, and integrations. Control tool invocation boundaries, validate API usage, manage third-party risk, implement human in the loop approvals for high-impact actions, and prepare for emerging protocols such as MCP.
- Operate with governance. Build AI governance for agents, instrument logging and monitoring, detect abuse through behavioral analytics, and run incident response tailored to autonomous systems.
- Stay audit-ready. Map your program to ISO 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and industry-specific requirements.
- Stand up a durable security program. Apply security-by-design, shift-left practices, secure SDLC integration, assessments, penetration testing, and clear ownership across security, engineering, and risk.
Leaders, security architects, CISOs, security engineers, AI engineers, enterprise architects, governance and risk professionals, and technical leaders who must enable agentic AI in production not block it and need a shared language and concrete controls to do it responsibly.
What's insideNine focused chapters cover architectures, threats, threat modeling, identity and access, memory and RAG, tools and APIs, governance and incident response, and program design.
If your enterprise is moving from pilots to production agents in customer support, SecOps, software delivery, HR, finance, or business process automation this book helps you turn autonomy into a managed capability: observable, auditable, constrained, and defensible.
Stop treating agents like smarter chatbots. Start securing them like strategic digital employees with the controls your business actually needs.
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