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Agentic Security — when an AI system can act, a bad output becomes a real event.

An autonomous agent that can query a database, send an email or call another system doesn't just risk a wrong answer — it risks a wrong action. SIRI's agentic security capability tests what happens when an AI agent is manipulated into doing something it shouldn't.

78%Of organisations have deployed AI in production
12%Have a formal AI security testing programme covering agentic risk
Excessive AgencyA named category in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
Why an agent's permissions matter as much as its prompt
Live tracking · scroll to see what's driving agentic risk
Named risk
LLM06
Excessive Agency is a named category in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (2025) — overly permissive agent behaviour is a recognised, specifically-defined risk, not a hypothetical edge case.
Adoption vs. testing
78% / 12%
78% of organisations have AI in production, but only 12% have a formal AI security testing programme — and most of that 12% wasn't built with autonomous agents in mind.
Compounding risk
MULTI-STEP
Agentic systems chain multiple actions together, meaning a single successful manipulation can trigger a sequence of consequences rather than one isolated bad output.
Tool exposure
PLUGINS & TOOLS
Every tool or plugin an agent can call — a database query, an email send, an API request — is a new action an attacker can potentially trigger indirectly.
Emerging standard
NIST AI RMF
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001 are becoming the reference points for governing autonomous AI system risk, including agentic use cases.

An agent doesn't just answer — it acts

The failure mode of a manipulated chatbot is a bad sentence. The failure mode of a manipulated agent is a bad action.

Agentic AI systems are built to take initiative — querying data, calling APIs, sending communications, orchestrating other systems — with limited human review of each individual step. That's precisely what makes them useful, and precisely what makes a successful manipulation dangerous: the attacker doesn't need to extract information directly, they just need to convince the agent to act on their behalf.

Traditional application security assumes a human reviews consequential actions before they happen. Agentic systems are explicitly designed to reduce that review — that's the automation value. Testing an agent means testing whether it can be manipulated, through its inputs, its retrieved context, or the content it processes, into taking an action outside its intended scope: exfiltrating data through a tool call, escalating its own permissions, or chaining several small actions into a larger unintended outcome.

Excessive Agency is a named, specifically-defined risk category — not a hypothetical
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (2025) formally recognises overly permissive agent behaviour as a distinct risk, reflecting how quickly agentic deployment has outpaced agentic testing. (OWASP GenAI Security Project.)

SIRI's agentic security testing maps every tool, plugin and action an agent can take, then tests whether it can be manipulated into using them outside intended scope — through direct instructions, indirect prompt injection via retrieved content, or multi-step chaining — and reports findings mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10, alongside the same infrastructure testing SIRI Attack applies to everything else in your environment.

What organisations get wrong

Four assumptions that leave agentic risk untested

Most agentic security gaps come from treating an agent like a chatbot with extra features.

01 — SCOPE

“We tested the model, so the agent is covered”

Model-level testing doesn't cover the tools, plugins and permissions layered on top — that's where agentic-specific risk actually lives.

02 — TRUST

“The agent only acts on our instructions”

Indirect prompt injection through retrieved content, documents or tool outputs can influence an agent's behaviour without ever touching the original instructions.

03 — PERMISSIONS

“We gave it broad access to be useful”

Excessive agency — permissions broader than a task actually requires — is precisely the condition that turns a successful manipulation into a serious incident.

04 — CHAINING

“Each action is small, so the risk is small”

Multi-step agents can chain individually low-risk actions into a materially larger outcome — testing needs to cover sequences, not just single actions in isolation.

What SIRI's agentic security covers

Testing what an agent can be manipulated into doing

Every tool, plugin and action mapped and tested — mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10.

AGENCY TESTING

Excessive-Agency Assessment

Testing whether an agent's permissions exceed what its task actually requires.

  • Permission & scope review
  • Least-privilege gap analysis
  • OWASP LLM06 mapping
See SIRI AI Security →
TOOL SECURITY

Tool & Plugin Security

Assessing every tool and plugin an agent can call for misuse potential.

  • Tool-call permission testing
  • Plugin-boundary testing
  • API-call abuse testing
See SIRI Attack →
INDIRECT INJECTION

Indirect Prompt Injection

Testing manipulation through retrieved content, documents and tool outputs, not just direct prompts.

  • Indirect injection testing
  • Poisoned-content testing
  • Cross-context contamination
See SIRI AI Security →
ACTION CHAINING

Multi-Step Action Testing

Testing whether individually small actions can be chained into a larger unintended outcome.

  • Action-sequence testing
  • Compounding-risk analysis
  • Workflow orchestration testing
See SIRI Exposure →
GUARDRAILS

Guardrail & Policy Design

Designing constraints that hold up under adversarial pressure, not just normal use.

  • Guardrail design & review
  • Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
  • Fail-safe design
See SIRI Resilience →
MONITORING

Agentic Action Monitoring

Ongoing monitoring for anomalous agent behaviour once deployed.

  • Anomalous-action detection
  • Escalation on unusual chains
  • Feeds SIRI MDR
See SIRI MDR →

Evidence, not guesswork

No agentic testing vs. standard AI security vs. SIRI Agentic Security — what actually differs

Testing a model's outputs and testing an agent's actions are different disciplines.

ApproachNo agentic testingStandard AI/LLM security testingSIRI Agentic Security
Excessive-agency & permission testingNoRareIncluded
Tool & plugin misuse testingNoRareIncluded
Indirect prompt-injection testingNoSometimesIncluded
Multi-step action-chaining testingNoNoIncluded
Mapped to OWASP LLM Top 10NoPartiallyYes

Sources: OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (2025); NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Summarised for comparison.

Numbers every board should know

What the agentic adoption gap looks like

78%

Have AI in production

Of organisations, a growing share of it agentic or tool-connected.

12%

Have formal AI testing

Of those organisations — most not scoped for agentic-specific risk.

LLM06

Named OWASP category

Excessive Agency is formally recognised in the OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025).

97%

Had an AI-related incident

Of enterprises report at least one AI-related security incident to date.

Compliance alignment

Standards & frameworks we align to

Our methodology is built around publicly recognised frameworks — not a proprietary checklist. Where a specific certification or attestation is completed and verified, it will be named here explicitly.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 SOC 2 (AICPA TSC) NIST CSF 2.0 MITRE ATT&CK OWASP Top 10 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications NIST AI RMF ISO/IEC 42001 ISO 22301 CERT-In Directions 2022

Framework references reflect publicly available versions as of publication and describe the standards our methodology is aligned to; they are not a claim of certification, attestation, or audit completion unless stated explicitly elsewhere on this site.

Why SIRI for agentic security specifically

Testing built for systems that act, not just systems that answer

Agentic security is a distinct discipline from conventional AppSec and even from standard LLM testing.

01

Built for emerging technology

Autonomous and agentic systems are core to how SIRI is built, not an afterthought bolted onto conventional AppSec.

02

Tests actions, not just outputs

Testing covers what an agent can be manipulated into doing, not only what it can be manipulated into saying.

03

Mapped to current frameworks

Findings map to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, specifically the Excessive Agency category, and the NIST AI RMF.

04

Connected to the rest of SIRI Security

Findings escalate into SIRI AI Security for model-layer issues, SIRI Attack for infrastructure, and SIRI MDR for ongoing monitoring.

Who this is built for

Organisations SIRI's agentic security is built for

AI Companies Technology & SaaS Financial Services Any organisation deploying tool-connected AI agents Enterprises orchestrating multi-agent workflows Startups building agentic products

How we work

From mapping agent actions to continuous monitoring

01

Map Agent Actions

Inventorying every tool, plugin and action an agent can take.

Week 1
02

Adversarial Testing

Testing excessive agency, indirect injection and action chaining.

Weeks 2–3
03

Harden Guardrails

Constraint and policy recommendations mapped to findings.

Week 4
04

Continuous Monitoring

Ongoing monitoring for anomalous agent behaviour post-deployment.

Ongoing

Frequently asked

Agentic security, answered directly

How is this different from SIRI AI Security?

SIRI AI Security covers the full AI pipeline including models and RAG; agentic security is a specific, deeper focus on autonomous action-taking — permissions, tool use and multi-step chaining — for agents that don't just generate output but act on it.

What frameworks do you use to build agents ourselves, or only test existing ones?

Both — agentic security engagements can inform architecture and guardrail design before launch, or test an already-deployed agent.

Can an agent really be manipulated without direct access to its prompt?

Yes — indirect prompt injection through a document, webpage, email or tool output the agent processes can influence its behaviour without an attacker ever touching the system prompt directly.

What's the most common finding in an agentic security assessment?

Excessive agency — permissions or tool access broader than a given task actually requires — is consistently among the most common and highest-impact findings.

Do you test multi-agent systems, where several agents coordinate?

Yes, where scoped — multi-agent orchestration introduces additional risk from how agents trust and act on each other's outputs, which is tested as part of action-chaining assessment.

Find out what your agent can be talked into

Test the actions, not just the answers.

Start with a scoped assessment of one agent, or map your full agentic footprint first.

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This page is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute a service guarantee, legal advice, or a commitment of specific outcomes. References to frameworks and statutes — including ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 (AICPA TSC), NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK, the OWASP Top 10 and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO 22301, India's CERT-In Directions 2022 and Information Technology Act 2000 s.70B(6) — and cited third-party statistics reflect publicly available information as of publication and remain subject to change; confirm current applicability to your organisation before relying on any specific requirement. Engagement with SIRI Security LLC requires a formal scope of work. SIRI Security LLC and SIRI Law LLP are related but independent organisations within the SIRI ecosystem; SIRI Security LLC provides technical cybersecurity services and does not provide legal advice.

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