BHAWANI SINGH

Application Security · 8 min

AppSec in the Age of Autonomous Agents

By Bhawani Singh · 2026-03-19

The New AppSec Frontier

Agentic AI stacks create non-deterministic execution paths. Traditional controls are necessary but not sufficient.

Executive Imperative

  • Shift from point controls to continuous control planes
  • Treat prompts, tool schemas, and retrieval data as attack surfaces
  • Build measurable resilience programs tied to business risk

Operating Model

Establish a joint AI Security Council between product, platform, and trust teams. Make ownership explicit: if everyone owns safety, no one owns safety.

Security must become design-time posture, not a launch-time checklist.

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  • test: this is good
  • Anita R.: Clear framing on ownership. Sharing with my product leadership team.