Top 10 AI Agent Security and Governance Controls


Top 10 AI Agent Security and Governance Controls (OWASP style list)


1. Agent Discovery & inventory (continuous)

2. Treat agents as first-class identities (Traditional IAM will not work, least privilege, JIT)

3. Scoped data access & information governance

4. Runtime enforcement & guardian agents

5. Observability, audit trails and explainability

6. Policy-as-code, escalation rules and HITL frameworks

7. Secure supply chain & model integrity

8. Ephemeral execution & environment isolation

[AI Agent Sandboxing and Isolation 👍

9. Continuous security testing & adversarial evaluation

10. FinOps, metering and governance for cost & risk