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AI agents bring security risks beyond the model itself, argues the author of a 6 October Gradient Flow essay. Their advice for enterprise teams is to protect the full agent harness and plan for prompt injection to succeed, rather than treating it as a remote possibility.

Why it matters

The author also recommends strict controls on non-human identities and measuring how long it takes to contain an incident. That is a practical shift in focus: security teams may need to test what happens around an agent, not simply inspect the model at its centre. The essay raises a useful question, though its supplied account offers recommendations rather than incident data or evidence that agent swarms behave in a particular way. How much security effort should go into the model itself, and how much into the tools, identities and permissions around it?

Discuss: For AI agents, should security teams prioritise hardening the model or limiting the tools, identities and permissions around it?

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