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A New Era of AI Agents Demands a New Security Model | Dell USA

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Earliest dated coverage: 28 Sep 2026 · First observed: 18 Oct 2026 · Latest dated coverage: 28 Sep 2026

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Infrastructure-level agent governance provides defenders with enforcement points beyond prompts and model controls for restricting autonomous agents' access and actions.

Dell argues that autonomous AI agents need infrastructure-enforced boundaries to prevent unauthorized data access, lateral movement and privileged workflow execution. The article describes NVIDIA OpenShell runtime governance and Sentry's BlueField-4 DPU-based monitoring and policy enforcement as complementary security layers within Dell AI Factory infrastructure.