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Problem Definition & Competitive Boundary

Agent Trust Cloud should orchestrate and enrich existing security systems, not duplicate them.

Priority
P0
Phase
Foundation
Primary owner
Product / Strategy
Status
Blueprint

Objective

The product exists because autonomous agents blur several legacy security boundaries at once. Agents can inherit user context, hold service credentials, call tools, delegate to other agents, consume untrusted content and execute high-impact actions. No single legacy category is designed to represent the full decision chain from intent through model reasoning to tool execution.

What to build

  • Map failure modes: unknown agents, excessive permissions, orphaned credentials, unsafe delegation, prompt injection, data exfiltration, runaway spend and weak attribution.
  • Define competitive adjacencies: IAM, PAM, DLP, SIEM, CNAPP, API security, AI gateways, model observability and GRC.
  • Use integrations to borrow existing enterprise signals rather than rebuilding every adjacent control.
  • Focus the proprietary layer on agent identity, authority graphs, runtime action decisions and replayable evidence.

Implementation decisions

  • Document a threat model for “agent acts on behalf of human/system” scenarios.
  • Separate prevention controls from detection controls; both are required.
  • Maintain a compatibility matrix for agent frameworks, model APIs, identity providers and tool protocols.
  • Create an internal rule: do not become a generic endpoint, network or human IAM suite.

Definition of done

  • Every feature maps to a defined agent-specific problem.
  • Sales can answer “why not just use Okta/CyberArk/Splunk?” with a product demonstration.
  • Engineering backlog excludes unrelated enterprise-security scope creep unless it strengthens agent control.

Success metrics

  • Attach rate to existing security stack
  • Percent of detections with agent attribution
  • Policy decisions with human/agent lineage
  • Feature usage by control family

BOUNDARY

Agent Trust Cloud should orchestrate and enrich existing security systems, not duplicate them.