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OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026: Key Takeaways & How to Take Action

AI agents connect to APIs, execute code, move data, and make decisions with real permissions in live production environments — introducing a new class of security risks. To help organizations stay ahead, the OWASP GenAI Security Project released the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026. In this post, we’ll provide a summary of each agentic AI risk category defined by OWASP, along with actionable next steps to begin securing your agentic AI projects in 2026 and beyond.

We Asked AI Security Experts to Explain Their Work Using Emojis #AISecurity #AI #AppSec

Can you explain AI Security using only emojis? We challenged AI Security professionals to do just that — no words, just symbols. Their creative combos reveal how experts really think about risks, models, and protection in today’s AI-driven world. From to to , each emoji tells a story about securing the systems behind the world’s most powerful models. Subscribe for more creative takes on AppSec, AI Security, and secure development from the Mend.io team.

Predictions 2026: Surge in Agentic AI for Attacks and Defenses

Over the years, cybersecurity predictions tend to all sound the same. Ransomware attacks will continue, supply-chain incidents will increase, and phishing will remain a problem. However, the tail end of 2025 and 2026 presented the cybersecurity industry with a new concern, Agentic AI. Agentic AI capabilities far exceed the basic AI concerns that were reported in the past. Its ability to make decisions and take actions on its own, without needing a human to approve every step, is a game-changer.

Privacy First vs. Privacy Later: The Cost of Delaying in the AI Era

In the startup world, speed is oxygen. The mantra is familiar: move fast, ship the MVP, and break things if you have to. When you are fighting for traction, especially when building generative AI applications, privacy usually feels like a “nice-to-have.” It’s something you bolt on later once you have actual users and revenue. But treating data protection as a post-launch feature creates a specific, dangerous kind of liability.

The Future of E-Commerce Payment Processing Worldwide

E-commerce is now central to how you sell. Still, cross-border growth often exposes familiar pain points: you juggle multiple payment providers, wrestle with unfamiliar regulations, and watch customers abandon full carts when their preferred payment method is unavailable or too slow. At the same time, you need to control fraud, reconcile data across channels, and keep checkout fast and trustworthy on every device. In this environment, choosing an international payment gateway that can handle global reach, local expectations, and rising risk is becoming one of the most important strategic decisions you make.

OWASP Agentic AI Top 10: Why It Matters and How Protecto Reduces Real-World Risk

AI agents are rapidly moving from experimentation into production across finance, healthcare, enterprise IT, and critical infrastructure. Unlike traditional applications, agents plan, reason, delegate, and act autonomously across systems and data sources. This expanded autonomy dramatically increases the security blast radius. To address this shift, OWASP released the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications.

The future of AI in Identity Security, with Martin Kuppinger and One Identity CEO Praerit Garg

Join One Identity CEO Praerit Garg and KuppingerCole Founder and Principal Analyst Martin Kuppinger as they discuss the evolution of IAM and thefuture of AI in Identity Security.