VANGUARD · AI Agent Threat Intelligence
The threat intelligence layer your AI agents don't have.
AI agents are operating across your business right now — making decisions, taking actions, handling data — inside an attack surface no one is mapping.
VANGUARD publishes the intelligence: every emerging threat, every known vulnerability class, every regulatory obligation, continuously classified and delivered to the people who act on it.
Continuous intelligence. No integrations. No access to your systems.
Threat intelligence. Not a tool. Not a scanner. Not a monitor.
VANGUARD is an intelligence platform. We research, classify, and publish the threats targeting autonomous AI agents — mapped to the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 and every major regulatory framework your organisation operates under.
We publish. Your security and compliance teams operationalize.
VANGUARD never touches your systems, your agents, or your data. The corpus is the product. Being the reference your team cites is the measure of success.
What VANGUARD delivers.
Threat Classification
Every finding classified against the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 — the only taxonomy purpose-built for autonomous AI agent attack surfaces. Not mapped retroactively from general application security. Built for agents from the ground up.
Regulatory Mapping
Intelligence delivered with article-level citations across every framework your organisation is subject to: EU AI Act, CMMC 2.0, UAE PDPL, DORA, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS. Your compliance team gets the regulatory context, not just the technical finding.
Continuous Publication
The threat landscape for AI agents is moving fast. VANGUARD publishes continuously — weekly briefings, standing corpus updates, and real-time alerts when a significant new threat class emerges. Your intelligence is never stale.
Actionable Format
Every intelligence output is consequence-first: what it is, what it means for your stack, what you do about it. Plain-English for builders. Technical detail with CVEs and remediation registers for security engineers. Compliance-mapped documentation for your audit team. Same intelligence. Three formats.
Three steps. No integration required.
Declare
Provide your agent stack — the frameworks, platforms, and models your organisation deploys. VANGUARD scopes its intelligence to your exact deployment. That’s all we need.
Receive
Continuous intelligence delivered to your workflow — weekly briefings, corpus access, and format-specific outputs. Builder Alerts in plain English. Full Intelligence Reports with technical depth. Compliance Packs with audit-ready documentation.
Operationalize
Your security team acts on findings. Your compliance team uses the documentation. Your builders read the plain-English alerts. VANGUARD gives every stakeholder the format they need to do their job. You bring the decisions.
Every finding mapped to the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10.
The only threat taxonomy purpose-built for autonomous AI agents. Every VANGUARD intelligence output is classified against this framework — so your team always knows exactly what category of risk they're looking at, and exactly where it maps to your regulatory obligations.
Prompt Injection
External input that manipulates an agent’s instructions — overriding intended behaviour, exfiltrating data, or triggering unauthorised actions.
The most prevalent AI agent attack vector. Every agent that processes external input is exposed.
Broken Access Control
Agents operating with permissions beyond their intended scope — accessing data, systems, or actions they were never authorised to reach.
A compromised agent with excessive access turns a single vulnerability into enterprise-wide exposure.
Data Poisoning
Corrupted training data, memory, or context producing agents that make confident decisions on compromised information.
Persistent across sessions. The agent has no mechanism to detect the corruption.
Inadequate Sandboxing
Execution environments lacking proper isolation — allowing agents to affect systems, files, or networks outside their boundary.
A sandbox failure turns a contained agent into an uncontained risk.
Insecure Output Handling
Agent outputs trusted without validation — enabling downstream systems to execute malicious content or propagate compromised data.
Malicious content in agent responses can trigger code execution across your entire pipeline.
Over-Reliance on AI
Absent or insufficient human oversight mechanisms — agent decisions go unchecked in high-consequence domains.
When the agent is wrong, nobody catches it until the damage is done.
Model Denial of Service
Agents forced into resource exhaustion, infinite loops, or degraded performance — denying service to legitimate operations.
Degraded performance in critical systems has cascading consequences.
Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Plugins, community nodes, marketplace integrations, or third-party dependencies introducing compromised code into an agent’s execution path.
Your agent is only as safe as everything it is connected to.
Insecure Plugin Design
Agent plugins that accept untrusted input, operate with excessive permissions, or fail to validate interactions with external services.
A single poorly designed plugin can compromise the entire agent’s security posture.
Excessive Agency
Agents with the ability to take consequential actions — financial transactions, data deletion, external communications — without adequate constraints.
The blast radius of a single compromised decision is unlimited.
Five audiences. One corpus. Different formats.
Builders
You’ve deployed AI agents on n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, or Voiceflow. You’re not a security engineer. You need to know what can go wrong with your specific stack — in plain English, with two actions you can take. That’s the Builder Alert.
Security Engineers
You need the technical detail: CVEs, OWASP classification, attack chain description, remediation register. You need it continuously, not quarterly. VANGUARD Intel delivers current threat intelligence for AI agent attack surfaces your existing tools don’t cover.
Compliance Leads
You have active obligations under EU AI Act, CMMC 2.0, UAE PDPL, or DORA. You need documentation that maps AI agent risk to specific articles in those frameworks — audit-ready, jurisdiction-specific, and continuously updated as the threat landscape changes. That’s VANGUARD Comply.
CISOs & Risk Officers
Your board needs to understand AI agent risk in business terms. The Board & Risk Pack delivers a two-page plain-English summary — posture score, top exposures, regulatory status — every reporting cycle.
Underwriters & Procurement
VANGUARD Certify (2027) will produce standardised AI agent security risk scores drawn from the VANGUARD corpus — actuarially credible, independently validated, designed for use in underwriting and enterprise risk transfer. Underwriter conversations are open now.
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.
Book an Intro CallThe attack surface targeting your AI agents is mapped. The question is whether your team is reading the intelligence.
The briefing publishes every week. The corpus grows every day. Your competitors are either reading it or they aren't.