Service · HARDEN
Agentic Workflow Security & Hardening
Map what the agent can actually cause to happen, reduce unnecessary authority, strengthen approvals and rollback, and verify the changed boundary.
Decision answered
Where can delegated authority, tool use, identities, permissions, approvals, or side effects exceed the intended boundary?
Duration
Typical duration: 2–5 weeks, depending on scope.
Primary output
Agent Authority and Hardening Plan with verified boundary changes
Best for
Teams operating agents or AI workflows that can call tools, use credentials, or create consequential side effects.
Engagement type
Scoped hardening engagement
What is in scope
- Agent and service identities
- Credentials, MCP, tools, and permissions
- Approval gates and human escalation
- External actions and consequential side effects
- Logging, rollback, implementation, and retest
Inputs needed
- Authorized representative workflow
- Identity, credential, and tool configuration
- Approval and escalation design
- Runtime and incident context
What the work actually does
- Tool permissions, scoped credentials
- Human approval, destructive actions
- Logging, kill switches, rollback
- Incident hooks, CI/CD gating checklist
What the work delivers
- Agent Authority Map
- Permission and Approval Matrix
- Hardening backlog
- Logging and rollback requirements
- Retest Record
Evidence produced
- Observed authority relationships
- Supported dangerous compositions
- Implemented or approved boundary changes
- Retest result for the changed condition
Boundary
What this engagement does not establish
- A guarantee that an agent cannot produce unintended behavior
- Testing outside the authorized workflow
- A certification or compliance determination
- Promotion of internal analyzers into separate products
After the engagement
Implement the owned hardening backlog, monitor the changed authority boundary, retest consequential paths, and maintain approval and rollback evidence as the workflow changes.
Optional deliverables: Attack Path Analysis, Release-condition record. Selected according to engagement scope.
Supporting Workbench capabilities
Selected according to scope.
The engagement outcome and evidence are the deliverable. These AI Security Workbench capabilities support the work where they add value; their presence here does not mean every engagement uses all of them.
Authority Graph
Model identities, credentials, tools, permissions, approvals, and consequential actions.
Agent Authority Review
Review whether delegated authority exceeds the intended workflow boundary.
Runtime Trace
Capture supported runtime observations within the configured boundary.
Threat Canvas
Frame the workflow, trust boundaries, and material abuse hypotheses.
Attack Path Analysis
Qualify connected authority paths only where evidence justifies them.
Delivery / subject-matter leads
Adjacent services
Choose by the decision you need to make.
VALIDATE
AI Guardrails & Evals Review
What do the current guardrails and evals actually cover, and what failure cases still pass?
RETRIEVAL
RAG Security Testing
Are retrieval authorization, tenant boundaries, provenance, context integrity, and indirect-injection controls holding?
ATTACK
AI Red Team & Adversarial Testing
Which realistic abuse and adversarial behaviors can be reproduced, and what controls break them?