OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications: Compliance Guide

The OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications: Compliance Guide, published in January 2026, outlines key security risks and mitigation strategies for agentic AI systems, focusing on observability features and metrics provided by Arize AX. It aligns the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative's top ten risks, such as agent goal hijacking, tool misuse, identity abuse, and supply chain vulnerabilities, with monitoring and evaluation techniques to detect and address these threats. The guide emphasizes the importance of tracing, monitoring, and setting up evaluators to safeguard against risks like unexpected code execution, memory poisoning, insecure inter-agent communication, cascading failures, human-agent trust exploitation, and rogue agents. It highlights the necessity of version control, approval workflows, dashboards, and alert systems to maintain the integrity and security of AI systems, while also providing practical steps such as tracing agent actions, evaluating tool usage, and monitoring communication and execution patterns.