The Agent Security Solution Guide: Observe, Enforce, Build, and Deploy

Ory Agent Security is presented as a lifecycle-based approach for governing AI agents that use tools, APIs, shell commands, MCP servers, and sub-agents, addressing the need to identify the responsible human, the acting runtime, permitted actions, and auditable outcomes. It distinguishes users, agents, and separately identified sub-agents to preserve delegation chains and applies identity-aware authorization at the agent harness or SDK tool boundary. Its Observe posture records activity and potential policy denials without blocking work, helping teams design policies from real usage while retaining privacy-conscious audit data rather than raw prompts or command contents. Enforce blocks unauthorized tool actions selectively or broadly, supporting least-privilege controls for sensitive agents and containment of suspicious sessions, though protection depends on the integration boundary’s ability to intercept actions. Build provides plugins and SDK integrations for existing harnesses and custom agent applications, enabling authorization checks and event recording around tool calls. Deploy supplies runtime identities, credential delivery, activation, and revocation mechanisms for production environments such as sandboxes, Kubernetes, and managed developer endpoints, while organizations retain control of their infrastructure. Together, these capabilities support incremental adoption from visibility and policy discovery to controlled, attributable, and revocable production agent operations.

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