The OWASP Top 10 for AI Agents Is Here. It's Not Enough.
The OWASP Top 10 for AI Agents Is Here. It's Not Enough. In December 2025, OWASP released the Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 — the first security framework dedicated to autonomous AI agents. Over 100 researchers and practitioners contributed. NIST, the European Commission, and the Alan Turing Institute reviewed it. Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, and AWS endorsed it. It’s a solid taxonomy. It gives the industry a shared language for a new class of threats. And it is nowhere near mature enough for what’s already happening in production. Let me explain. What the Framework Gets Right Credit where it’s due. The OWASP Agentic Top 10 correctly identifies the fundamental shift: a chatbot answers questions, an agent executes tasks . That distinction changes the entire threat model. When you give an AI system the ability to call APIs, access databases, send emails, and execute code, you’ve created something with real operational authority. A compromi...