The cutting-edge technology employed by Agentic AI systems integrated with Agentic Protocols allows them to connect external tools and agents out-of-the-box. While this impressive flexibility unlocks new potential, it also gives rise to significant new and complex security threats that require careful consideration and proactive defense strategies.
In this talk, we will provide a concise introduction to the threats inherent to key components of agents, like memory and planning modules following which, we will examine the impact of architectural decisions on security, specifically focusing on threats associated with prominent interaction mechanisms such as Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, which facilitate connections between models, tools, and autonomous agents.
Finally, we will discuss how adhering to security best practices can help mitigate these threats.