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.