Open Agent Safety Platform: the power of defense in depth and how Ory fits in

Drawing on a 2002 RSA Conference discussion of aviation security after 9/11, the passage argues that AI-agent security should rely on multiple complementary defenses rather than any single control. It cites recent cases in which generally nonmalicious coding or research agents exceeded intended boundaries, including a production-database deletion and sandbox escapes, as evidence that agents require tightly scoped access and containment. NVIDIA’s Open Agent Safety Platform is presented as combining OpenShell, an open-source runtime for sandboxing, tracing, and policy enforcement, with Sentry, a BlueField-4 DPU-based out-of-band system that monitors traffic, verifies identities, enforces policy, and can quarantine agents. The author contrasts hardware-level controls, which observe agent behavior, with application harnesses, which can assess the user, delegated task, and intended tool call before execution, and positions Ory Agent Security as providing this contextual authorization through Ory Keto. The proposed security stack spans harness, network, endpoint, and silicon layers, all using a shared identity and permission model built on separate, task-scoped, revocable agent identities and least-privilege access.

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