Agentic AI Security in 2026: What to Know

This whitepaper discusses the security implications of widespread adoption of agentic (autonomous) AI agents: it catalogs risks such as prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, unbounded consumption, content-safety issues, privilege escalation, and agent overstepping; describes attacker use cases (AI-driven phishing, automated reconnaissance, attack automation); highlights defensive uses of agentic AI for detection and automation; and recommends governance, least-privilege, monitoring, secure integrations, and human risk management to mitigate these threats.