The OWASP Agentic Top 10, explained for practitioners

Short summary

The OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026) defines ten risk categories (ASI01-ASI10) for autonomous AI agent systems, covering goal hijacking, tool misuse, memory poisoning, cascading failures, and rogue agents. It serves as a shared vocabulary for threat modeling rather than a controls catalog. Practitioners should walk their architecture against each risk to identify gaps in their agent security posture.

• •OWASP published the Top 10 for Agentic Applications (ASI01-ASI10) covering agent-specific security risks
• •Risks include goal hijack, tool misuse, memory poisoning, insecure inter-agent communication, and rogue agents
• •Designed as a threat-modeling checklist, not a controls catalog — engineering judgment fills the gap between risk and fix

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