Analysis · curated 31 Jul 2026
Top Security Risks of AI Agents in 2026 (And How to Mitigate Them)
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Why it matters
AI agents operating with delegated permissions and consuming untrusted content expand the enterprise attack surface in ways traditional firewalls, EDR, and DLP cannot detect at the semantic layer, so defenders need AI-specific controls.
A Salt Security blog by Michael Callahan surveys the top security risks facing AI agents in 2026, emphasizing that agents which call APIs, access tools, and act autonomously create new attack surface. It highlights prompt injection (direct and indirect via emails, documents, and web pages) as the defining challenge and references the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications as an emerging framework.