Agents operate under user credentials, across four surfaces simultaneously: AI applications, enterprise agents, agentic endpoints and agentic browsers. In your logs, their actions are indistinguishable from the users’. Your existing controls each see one surface. The gaps between them are where cross-surface attacks go undetected.
This whitepaper covers:
- How agents break the assumptions behind traditional application, endpoint, and network security controls.
- A cross-surface attack scenario where every step looks authorized and no single control flags it.
- The unified AI control plane, i.e., observability, identity, and security policy enforcement at runtime across all four surfaces.
- What risks do coding agents (the most popular type of agentic endpoints) have and how they can be managed with the AI Control Plane architecture.
