Agentic Mesh

Chapter 12. Security Considerations

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While the potential of the agentic mesh can be quite impressive, this potential can only be realized if the system is secure. If the mesh was vulnerable to anyone with a computer and internet connection, then no enterprise would be willing to make use of it. So in this chapter we will cover the security features needed to create an enterprise grade agentic mesh.

Some of these security features covered here are security concerns that will be present in any microservice application, such as mutual TLS during communications, and hooking into an external book of record for user authorization. Other security measures - such as prompt injection protection - are specific to applications making use of generative ai.

Mutual TLS

In order for any application to be secure while being connected to the modern internet, It is imperative that the communication between parties be protected so that it cannot be read by third parties that might have access to the data in transit. This is ...