Why Securing AI Agents Has to Come Before Deploying Them
Solutions Review, Sunday, June 28th, 2026
Organizations must establish AI agent security controls before deployment because retrofitting them later is far harder.
This Solutions Review article argues that security for AI agents must be established before deployment because adding controls after the fact is significantly more difficult and risky.
It frames agent security as three sequential stages: visibility, configuration, and runtime protection, each a prerequisite for the next. Security is positioned as infrastructure rather than an optional feature, meaning it should be budgeted like compute and storage.
The piece stresses both posture management, which helps enterprises understand an agent before it operates, and runtime control, which governs the agent once active.
It concludes that with mature tooling now available, there is no longer a meaningful excuse for deploying agents without first securing them.