The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents

Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix. “The guardrails to catch a malicious prompt won’t stop an agent from hallucinating and doing something it never should have done, like accidentally deleting databases or leaking sensitive data with a credential it was granted but then uses