AGENTSAI SECURITY ENGINEERING

Excessive agency

Excessive agency exists when an AI system can take broader or more consequential actions than the user task requires.

WHY IT MATTERS

Autonomy increases blast radius when the model is wrong or manipulated.

ENTERPRISE EXAMPLE

A troubleshooting agent can modify IAM even though its normal job is reading logs.

SECURITY DECISION

Which security control should be explicit?

REMEMBERLeast privilege applies to agent capabilities too.
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