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ISBN13: 9785697213315
Publisher: Devlin Nexley
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Autonomous AI systems are moving beyond generating text and recommendations into environments where they can plan tasks, invoke tools, access enterprise data, modify systems, and coordinate with other agents. This shift creates a fundamentally different security problem: organizations must secure not only AI models and applications, but the autonomous execution layer surrounding them.
This book presents a security engineering approach to designing, deploying, governing, and operating agentic AI systems in production environments. It examines how identity, authorization, runtime policy enforcement, Zero Trust principles, threat modeling, observability, and containment must evolve when software can make decisions and initiate actions dynamically.
The architecture moves from the agent runtime and its trust boundaries through the major attack surfaces created by autonomous execution. It examines prompt injection, indirect instruction attacks, memory poisoning, retrieval manipulation, tool exploitation, credential abuse, data leakage, agent impersonation, and threats emerging from multi-agent collaboration. Rather than treating these as isolated vulnerabilities, the book analyzes how individual weaknesses can combine into larger attack paths across agent workflows.
Particular attention is given to secure agent identity and delegated authorization, capability-based access control, policy-as-code, tool gateways, sandboxed execution, memory isolation, retrieval security, secrets management, and continuous verification. The discussion also examines how Zero Trust architecture can be adapted for autonomous agents by separating identity, intent, authorization, execution, and trust decisions.
The book then moves into operational security. Agent telemetry, behavioral analytics, security operations, decision-path monitoring, incident response, execution freezing, identity quarantine, context rollback, memory recovery, and progressive privilege restoration are examined as components of an operational model for autonomous systems. These mechanisms are considered alongside enterprise governance, auditability, accountability, risk management, and compliance requirements.
Designed for security architects, AI engineers, platform engineers, DevSecOps teams, enterprise architects, security leaders, and technology executives, this book provides an architecture-first perspective on securing AI agents at enterprise scale.
Topics include:
- Agent runtime security and autonomous execution architectures
- Threat modeling for autonomous AI systems
- Agent identity, authentication, delegation, and authorization
- Zero Trust architecture for AI agents
- Prompt injection and indirect instruction defense
- Memory security and knowledge poisoning
- Secure tool and function execution
- Retrieval-augmented generation security
- Multi-agent trust and inter-agent communication
- Secrets and sensitive-data protection
- Runtime policy enforcement and capability controls
- Agent observability and behavioral security analytics
- Security operations for autonomous AI environments
- Incident response, containment, and recovery
- Enterprise AI governance, auditability, and risk management
- Resilient security architectures for production agentic platforms
The central engineering challenge is not simply preventing an AI agent from behaving incorrectly. It is designing an environment in which autonomous systems can operate with useful levels of capability while their identities, permissions, decisions, data access, and external actions remain continuously controlled and observable.
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