The Agentic AI Posture Score: A New Metric for CISOs

The post argues that traditional security metrics are inadequate for AI-driven environments and proposes an Agentic AI Posture Score built on three dimensions: Visibility Ratio (seeing shadow agents and API traffic), Privilege Density (functional over-permissions in APIs), and Behavioral Integrity (anomaly detection in agent behavior). It reframes board reporting toward proactive risk posture and highlights how Salt Security’s platform computes API risk scores and correlates posture gaps with active threats to prioritize remediation.