8 AI Agent Security Best Practices for Enterprise Teams
AI agents now access your codebases, databases, and production systems with unprecedented autonomy. Yet most organizations lack visibility into what these agents do—or the controls to stop risky actions before they execute. With 45% of enterprises running production AI agents that have critical system access, security teams face a new challenge: governing autonomous tools that make real-time decisions without human approval.
This guide outlines eight security best practices for enterprise teams deploying AI agents at scale—covering everything from foundational security architecture to transforming local development into production-grade services.