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Agent Containment: Definition, Risks, and Techniques

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By Jeff Harrell
| Security Boulevard Verified
Anthropic recently published a detailed account of how it contains Claude across its products, including the vulnerabilities its own defenses missed. The article surfaces a discipline most enterprises will need long before they finish their first agentic AI project: agent containment. AI agents now write code, query databases, file tickets, and update records, and every one of those capabilities is also a potential security concern.
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When AI Agents Become Bots: A Field Report from the Authentication Layer

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By Jeff Harrell
| Security Boulevard Verified
Security vendors and their customers have spent considerable time debating where to draw the line between “legitimate” AI agents and “malicious” bots. A 31-day campaign against a major consumer platform’s authentication infrastructure settled the argument. In the context of unauthorized API access at machine speed, the two can be the same problem. The threat wore a friendly face This particular attack did not come from a criminal botnet.
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Why the Security Controls Built Into LLMs Aren’t Enough

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By Jeff Harrell
| Security Boulevard Verified
LLM vendors are increasingly building security features and guardrails into their models. However, the controls inside the model are designed for a contained, request-response world. A user sends a prompt, and the model returns a response. LLM security focuses on making that response safe. Agentic AI shows us how insufficient those model-based controls are. Today, agents call tools, chain with other agents, read from external data sources, and take actions that can have real-world consequences.
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