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Zero-trust design needed to constrain agent blast radius
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Zero-trust design needed to constrain agent blast radius
AI agents must be treated with zero trust because their designers cannot fully anticipate how agents may spread, multiply, or escalate access—leading to blast radii far exceeding original intent and lacking built-in mechanisms to constrain privilege or scope.
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there's this zero trust nature that we have to treat AI agents with, which is not like the human designers of this knew what the outcome that they wanted was, but they didn't fully think about this implication of how the agent could spread and multiply and gain access that they didn't envision. And so the blast radius was actually much, much higher than the original designers envision, and there was no mechanism to constrain or restrict that blast radius.
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Yeah. And I think it's so there's two levels here that I'm thinking about as someone that's working on a an AI governance and control plane product, which is one layer of this is if you look at guidance from, like, OWASP or even Anthropic and others, Right? And so that's a a thing one, which is the the the how do you manage the privilege and blast radius, limit the blast radius of these agents that you're spinning up?
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