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Three Essentials for Agentic AI Security
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Three Essentials for Agentic AI Security

by Paolo Dal Cin, Daniel Kendzior, Yusof Seedat, Renato Marinho
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
6 pages
12m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review

Overview

AI agents promise increased productivity by working autonomously across multiple systems — but this very capability can create serious security vulnerabilities. Most companies remain unprepared: Just 42% balance AI development with appropriate security investments. Learn how one company improved agentic AI security using a three-phase framework that included threat modeling, security testing, and runtime protections.

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ISBN: 53863MIT66436