AI Agent Threat Intelligence
The threat intelligence your AI agents don't have yet.
VANGUARD is the authoritative reference source for AI agent security threats — mapped to the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10, scoped to your stack, and cited by security leaders, compliance officers, and risk underwriters across five jurisdictions.
These are not hypothetical.
Every scenario below has already happened. VANGUARD classifies the attack pattern, maps the regulatory exposure, and tells you what to do before it happens to your stack.
Your AI handles customer emails.
It reads every message in your inbox. It drafts replies. It takes actions. One poisoned email tells it to forward everything to an external address. You find out when your customers do.
OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — Prompt Injection
Read the intelligence →Your AI writes your code.
It works autonomously for hours. It has terminal access. It installs a dependency that doesn't exist — and downloads a package someone planted with that exact name. Your production server is now someone else's.
OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Read the intelligence →Your AI manages your money.
It processes invoices. It matches purchase orders. It authorizes payments. A vendor email changes one bank account number. Your AI pays $47,000 to the wrong account. It matched the PO perfectly.
OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — Excessive Agency
Read the intelligence →VANGUARD
The intelligence platform for AI agent security.
VANGUARD is a threat intelligence service. Security teams, compliance officers, risk managers, and insurers subscribe because the intelligence itself is the product.
It does not sit in your stack alongside a CNAPP. It does not scan your infrastructure. It is the authoritative, OWASP-mapped reference source that your security workflow is built around.
The OWASP Foundation released the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 in December 2025 — NIST-endorsed, the first authoritative taxonomy for AI agent security risks. No commercial intelligence platform has been built around it. VANGUARD is that platform.
Threat Classification
Every finding classified against the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — the authoritative taxonomy for AI agent security risks. Stack-specific. Scoped to the exact tools you have deployed.
Multi-Jurisdiction Compliance Mapping
Each finding maps to specific regulatory articles and controls across UAE PDPL, CMMC 2.0, DORA, EU AI Act, and C-TPAT — simultaneously. Know which obligations a finding triggers before your auditor asks.
Five-Audience Intelligence
One finding, five outputs. Engineer-level technical detail. Compliance officer regulatory mapping. Risk manager exposure analysis. Board-ready business risk summary. Builder-level plain English. From a single subscriber declaration.
Corpus-Driven Authority
VANGUARD's classified, OWASP-mapped threat corpus grows every day. A dated, evolving record of how the AI agent threat landscape develops — week by week, stack by stack, jurisdiction by jurisdiction. A competitor starting today is permanently behind.
How VANGUARD works.
Declare
Declare your AI agent stack. Which tools, which models, which integrations. VANGUARD scopes its intelligence to your exact deployment — not a generic category.
Analyze
VANGUARD classifies your exposure against the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10, maps regulatory obligations across every jurisdiction that applies, and produces intelligence in the format your audience needs — from board summary to technical detail.
Receive
Continuous intelligence delivered to your workflow. Weekly briefings. Corpus updates. New findings classified and mapped as the threat landscape evolves. Your security workflow is built on VANGUARD — it becomes infrastructure.
OWASP Agentic AI Top 10
OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — Classified and Mapped.
The OWASP Agentic AI Top 10, released December 2025 and NIST-endorsed, is the first authoritative taxonomy for AI agent security risks. VANGUARD is the first commercial intelligence platform built around it. Every finding is classified, stack-specific, and mapped to regulatory obligations across five jurisdictions.
Prompt Injection
When external input manipulates an agent’s instructions — overriding intended behaviour, exfiltrating data, or triggering unauthorised actions. The most prevalent AI agent attack vector.
Broken Access Control
When an agent operates with permissions beyond its intended scope — accessing data, systems, or actions it was never authorised to reach.
Data Poisoning
When training data, memory, or context is corrupted — producing agents that make confident decisions based on compromised information. Persistent across sessions.
Inadequate Sandboxing
When an agent’s execution environment lacks proper isolation — allowing it to affect systems, files, or networks outside its intended boundary.
Insecure Output Handling
When an agent’s outputs are trusted without validation — enabling downstream systems to execute malicious content, inject code, or propagate compromised data.
Over-Reliance on AI
When human oversight mechanisms are absent or insufficient — and an agent’s decisions go unchecked despite operating in high-consequence domains.
Model Denial of Service
When an agent can be forced into resource exhaustion, infinite loops, or degraded performance — denying service to legitimate operations.
Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
When plugins, community nodes, marketplace integrations, or third-party dependencies introduce compromised code into an agent’s execution path.
Insecure Plugin Design
When agent plugins accept untrusted input, operate with excessive permissions, or fail to validate interactions with external services.
Excessive Agency
When an agent has the ability to take consequential actions — financial transactions, data deletion, external communications — without adequate constraints or human approval gates.
The regulatory clock is running.
UAE Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)
Active NowAI agents processing personal data of UAE residents must operate within documented, auditable control frameworks. The PDPL applies to any organisation with operations, customers, or data subjects in the UAE — regardless of where the agent is hosted. Enforcement is live. Documentation obligations are immediate.
CMMC 2.0 (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification)
Active NowDefense contractors and their supply chains — including logistics operators handling controlled unclassified information — must demonstrate security controls across all systems to maintain Department of Defense contract eligibility. AI agent deployments are in scope. C-TPAT enrollment requires demonstrated technology stack security controls. ITAR applies the moment an AI agent routes, prices, or documents defense articles in transit.
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)
Enforcement January 2025EU financial entities must demonstrate ICT risk management covering all operational technology, including AI-driven systems. Third-party AI tools and agent deployments used in financial operations are explicitly in scope. DORA requires documented risk assessment and incident reporting for technology failures — including those caused by autonomous agents.
EU AI Act
High-Risk Enforcement Begins August 2, 2026Operators of high-risk AI systems must maintain technical documentation, conduct conformity assessments, and implement human oversight mechanisms. AI agent deployments in logistics, finance, and critical infrastructure are expected to fall under high-risk classification. The documentation and assessment obligations become enforceable on August 2, 2026. The preparation window is now.
VANGUARD is the intelligence layer compliance teams use to understand their AI agent exposure — before conversations with auditors and underwriters begin. It maps findings to specific regulatory articles and frameworks. It does not perform audits or issue certifications.
Intelligence Outputs
One intelligence engine. Three outputs.
Every VANGUARD assessment produces three distinct deliverables from a single subscriber declaration — no duplicate data entry, no manual translation between audiences.
Board & Risk Pack
Two pages maximum. Zero CVE numbers. Zero OWASP codes. Plain English throughout. Posture score expressed as business risk, top three findings in financial terms, three recommended actions with consequence of inaction. Built for CEO, CFO, board, and insurers.
Full Intelligence Report
Plain-language executive section followed by full technical detail — CVEs, OWASP mapping, regulatory obligations, remediation register, evidence log. Built for CISO, compliance officer, risk manager, and legal.
Builder Alert
Single page. No jargon. Stack-specific. What was found in plain English, what it means, two actions this week. Every Builder Alert is a social content asset. Built for builders deploying AI agents with tools like n8n, Make, and Zapier.
Why teams trust VANGUARD.
The intelligence standard your security workflow is built around. Classified, mapped, and published continuously.
OWASP-Classified
Every finding mapped to the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — the NIST-endorsed taxonomy for AI agent security. Not retrofitted from application security. Built for agents from the ground up.
Continuously Published
Weekly briefings. Daily corpus updates. Real-time alerts when significant new threat classes emerge. Your intelligence is never stale and never a point-in-time snapshot.
Multi-Jurisdiction
Intelligence mapped to specific regulatory articles across EU AI Act, DORA, CMMC 2.0, UAE PDPL, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF — simultaneously. Audit-ready from day one.
See how VANGUARD maps to your stack.
30-minute call. We walk through your agent deployment, show you the intelligence output, and map it to your regulatory surface. No pitch deck. No demo environment. Live intelligence.
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Published weekly. Covers AI agent threat activity, emerging attack patterns against the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 taxonomy, and regulatory developments across UAE, US, EU, UK, and APAC jurisdictions. Written for security leaders, compliance officers, and risk underwriters. The standard reference for AI agent security intelligence.
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VANGUARD classifies threats across the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10, maps regulatory obligations, and delivers continuous intelligence your security team can act on.