How Financial Services Teams Should Secure AI Agents in 2026
Your fraud detection agent scores 30,000 transactions per hour. Your KYC agent processes identity verifications against government watchlists. Your customer service chatbot resolves disputes and initiates balance transfers. Each agent runs on Kubernetes with inherited service account permissions that span payment APIs, customer databases, and compliance systems. Now imagine one of those agents is compromised through a prompt injection embedded in a customer support ticket.