Into the Expanse: A Security Leader’s Guide to the Agent Frontier
Read moreAgents don't run through your gateway. They run inside Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft 365, and Workday. Runtime enforcement has to go where they live.
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The application layer is the runtime. An agent's tools are the application's features. Its knowledge is the application's data. Its permissions are the application's permission model. A gateway sees none of it.
The inspection point is also a target. The security-conscious teams that deployed a gateway on purpose were hit hardest. Don't make any single component the whole strategy.
The millisecond needs a memory. Allow, block, warn, redact. The gray cases need identity, permissions, connectivity, and activity already mapped. Runtime is the radio. Posture is the radar.
What good looks like. Enforcement where agents live. Verdicts from the graph, not the packet. A response menu wider than block.
By the numbers: 3 structural facts every runtime pitch has to answer. 50+ external domains: the one runtime rule that stopped a personal-email workaround. 0 gateway visibility into an agent executing inside a third-party platform.
"The third-party application layer is the runtime agents execute on."
