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The Missing Layer in Agent Security

DEV Community·Kaustubh Phatak·20 days ago
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Last month, a customer support agent at a mid-size SaaS company did something interesting. It read a customer’s account data (allowed), formatted it as a CSV (allowed), and emailed it to an external address (allowed). Three tool calls. Three green checkmarks from the per-call policy engine. One data breach. Every individual action was within policy. The trajectory was exfiltration. This is the gap I’ve been thinking about for the past year while building security tooling for AI agents. The industry has built two layers of agent security and completely skipped the one in the middle. I built the missing layer. This post explains why it’s needed, how it works, and how you can use it today. The Two Layers We Have Layer 1: Pre-deployment analysis. Before you ship an agent, you scan its configuration. How many tools does it have access to? Which ones can write to production? Does it satisfy the “lethal trifecta” (access to private data + exposure to untrusted content + ability to communicate externally)?…

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