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Why Your AI Agent Security Tools Are Missing Half the Picture

The Layer Nobody’s Watching

The agentic AI security market is booming. Runtime guardrails that filter prompt injections. Firewalls that block malicious outputs. Shadow AI discovery tools that find unauthorized LLM usage. Red-teaming platforms that stress-test models.

These tools protect agents after they’re deployed. They sit in front of your agent at inference time and intercept bad inputs or outputs. They’re valuable — and they’re necessary.

But they’re only half the picture.