The Challenge of Securing AI Agents: A DevSecOps Perspective
As a DevSecOps Team Leader, my job is to secure customers using modern technologies. Sounds straightforward, right? The reality is far more complex. Every day, I face the challenge of enabling innovation while maintaining security. The rapid adoption of AI has introduced a new dimension to this challenge: agentic AI assistants that do not just chat, they act. This challenge connects directly to something I wrote about recently. In my article on spec-driven development with GitHub Spec-Kit, I discussed how structure and governance matter when using AI for coding. The same principle applies here: when AI agents can execute code, access secrets, and operate with user privileges, we need structure and governance more than ever. ...