This tutorial explores advances and challenges in deploying large language model-based agentic systems across industries, with a focus on reasoning and planning, multi-agent coordination, and evaluati…

The paper reports on penetration tests conducted on proprietary, large-scale AI agent systems, finding that security vulnerabilities persist despite stricter development standards.

This survey provides a comprehensive, practical guide to ensuring the trustworthiness of complex, autonomous agentic AI systems by focusing on safety, robustness, privacy, and system security.

This paper systematizes the security challenges of open agentic systems, concluding that while attack characterization is mature, the field lacks robust guidelines for operational governance, memory i…

This paper presents a case study on using AI coding agents in software engineering and develops a process model for governing high-velocity agentic implementation.

The paper argues that agent security must be treated as a systems problem, requiring the enforcement of security invariants at the system level rather than solely relying on improving the underlying A…

The paper proposes a Semantic Gateway and a Zero-Trust security model to formally validate and secure autonomous AI agents operating in enterprise systems, achieving a 100% discovery rate of unauthori…

This paper proposes a role-based agentic workflow for vulnerability analysis and mitigation in software engineering, integrating an analyzer agent with CodeQL and evaluating its performance on 25 real…

The paper introduces ACIArena, a unified and comprehensive evaluation framework designed to systematically test the robustness of Multi-Agent Systems against complex Agent Cascading Injection attacks.

The paper introduces AgentWard, a lifecycle-oriented, defense-in-depth architecture designed to systematically secure autonomous AI agents by protecting them across all stages of their operation.

This paper introduces Agentic Workflow Injection (AWI), a new class of vulnerability in LLM-powered GitHub Actions, and presents TaintAWI, a novel taint-analysis tool that identifies hundreds of explo…

This paper empirically demonstrates that the architectural design of multi-agent systems significantly impacts their security, finding that coordination mechanisms can introduce vulnerabilities greate…

This paper studies AI development frameworks for software engineering and proposes a six-dimension process taxonomy.

This paper analyzes the security of LLM-based autonomous agents by drawing parallels to operating system security, finding that while some vulnerabilities are inherent, many can be mitigated using est…

The paper proposes a modular agent framework and novel learning methods to design and optimize practical, cost-effective, and controllable LLM-based agentic systems.

The paper introduces an AI red teaming agent that drastically reduces the time and effort required for security testing by allowing operators to define complex attack goals using natural language, com…

This paper systematically analyzes security risks in cloud-hosted, tool-enabled AI agents, concluding that most risks stem from over-privileged tools and capability-intent mismatches rather than novel…

This paper introduces progressive crystallization, a lifecycle for AI agents in IT operations that converts validated agent behaviors into cheaper and more reproducible deterministic workflows, increa…

This paper systematically maps the expanded attack surface of agentic AI systems, identifying new threat vectors like RAG poisoning and cross-agent manipulation, and proposes a comprehensive security…