The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents
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ventureBeat
August 28, 2026 · 10:52
Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix."The guardrails to catch a malicious prompt won't stop an agent from hallucinating and doing something it never should have done, like accidentally deleting databases or leaking sensitive data with a credential it was granted but then uses for something entirely different," Wahlberg says. "That's the central problem as enterprises move autonomous agents out of experimentation and into production."Once an agentic system is granted executi…
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