About This Blog
The Agent Layer is a security research blog focused on AI agent security — the emerging discipline of understanding how autonomous AI systems fail, get exploited, and can be built more defensively.
As AI agents move from demos to production infrastructure, they’re inheriting decades of unresolved security problems: injection attacks, privilege escalation, supply chain compromise, and trust boundary failures — all in systems that can act autonomously on behalf of users and organizations.
This blog documents that landscape as it develops in real time: real-world breaches, attack techniques, defensive frameworks, and the harder questions about liability, governance, and design philosophy that the industry hasn’t answered yet.
About the Author
I’m Austin — a cybersecurity professional and QA Analyst at Keeper Security specializing in secrets management. My focus is at the intersection of AI systems and traditional security: how agentic architectures inherit classical vulnerabilities, create new attack surfaces, and where the defensive tooling doesn’t yet exist.
I’m building toward independent consulting targeting AI agent security and secrets management as core specializations. This blog is where that work gets documented publicly.
Contact
GitHub: ahburgess22
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