AI agents are no longer theoretical, they’re operational. They make decisions, take actions, and are quickly becoming embedded across enterprise infrastructures. In fact, Gartner projects that by 2028, 15% of all enterprise decisions will be made autonomously by agents. But if you are securing them like they’re human, you’re already behind.
From Intelligence to Autonomy
We’ve long known that AI can augment human capabilities. But agentic AI is something different. It isn’t just intelligent, it’s autonomous. It gathers information, it reasons, it decides and it acts. When these agents are deployed across high-stakes environments — finance, government, healthcare — the stakes of getting security wrong multiply.
And here’s the problem: the current security paradigm isn’t built for agents. It’s built for humans.
A New Attack Surface: Thought & Action
Security controls today focus on human inputs, including what we click, what we download, and where we navigate. But agentic systems don’t wait for a click. They perceive, think, and act independently.
That introduces two distinct attack surfaces that at the moment, are dangerously underprotected:
- Agentic Thought: The decision logic, often informed by LLMs, that guides an agent’s reasoning.
- Agentic Action: The tools agents use to act, whether it’s querying a database, sending an email, or controlling a system.
At CalypsoAI, we protect both. Whether it’s blocking a phishing payload injected into an LLM-powered assistant at the thought stage, or preventing unauthorized system actions at the execution stage, our platform acts as a safeguard across the full agent lifecycle.
The Rise of Agentic Warfare
To defend the agentic future, we’ve built our own autonomous army of attack agents. These agents think adversarially, red-teaming AI systems to surface the exact threat paths malicious actors will exploit.
This is what we call agentic warfare and it’s already operational. Our customers, ranging from HR giants to government contractors, are using our Inference Red-Team solution to preemptively expose vulnerabilities, validate defenses, and meet emerging demands of regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act and U.S. executive directives.
Securing Humanity
What’s at stake isn’t just enterprise uptime or regulatory fines. Agentic systems are already being used to make decisions that impact people’s lives in big ways—from healthcare to access to justice. As I shared during my pitch at the RSA Conference Sandbox Competition, this moment in time mirrors JFK’s moonshot challenge. We’re racing to integrate AI into every layer of society. But if we want to safely reach that future, we must design for it, not after the fact, but now.
That’s what we’re doing at CalypsoAI. Not to slow the race down, but to protect it so that we can go at speed, safely. In this way, we can ensure innovation remains worthy of trust so that when agents are making decisions, humanity doesn’t pay the price.
