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The Agent Security Stack: Transport, Identity, Policy, Runtime (opens in new tab)

Let's say you're building an agent. It reads Linear issues, pulls context from Gmail, opens GitHub PRs, and posts updates in Slack. Or maybe it's a system of agents with an orchestrator that hands off to specialists, each with its own job to do. Now you need to figure out how to secure everything, and you end up with several browser tabs pulling you in different directions. One tab is selling you an MCP gateway. Another is a non-human identity inventory tool. Another is a runtime guardrail th...

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