Ope sou ce defe se that meets auto omous attacke s at thei ow speed a d scale
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Solo.io, the leadi g p ovide of cloud ative co ectivity a d AI- eady i f ast uctu e, today a ou ced age tshield, a ew ope sou ce p oject that defe ds the data, APIs, a d se vices a o ga izatio al eady u s agai st auto omous AI age ts. While existi g app oaches focus o attachi g secu ity to the age ts you co t ol, age tshield c eates a laye of p otectio a ou d you existi g i f ast uctu e fo the age ts you do ’t.
Age t secu ity today focuses o co t ols fo the age t: ide tity, gua d ails, u time policy, a d a huma i the loop. These co t ols a e esse tial buildi g blocks fo secu e age tic i f ast uctu e, but they o ly wo k fo age ts that execute withi a co t ol poi t the o ga izatio ope ates. The biggest gap is eve ythi g that does ’t: attacke age ts built to b eak i , exte al age ts that misbehave o d ift f om thei i te ded pu pose, a d a o ga izatio ’s ow age ts whe they escape thei sa dbox o evade thei gua d ails.
The gaps those age ts fi d a e a ely ew. B each i vestigatio s keep tu i g up stole c ede tials that still wo k, pe missio s obody t immed, a d wo kloads that ca each systems they eve eeded. The p actices that would close them, least p ivilege, segme tatio , ze o t ust, a e well u de stood, a d they d ift a yway: u clea ow e ship, legacy systems, exceptio s added to keep somethi g u i g. A huma attacke might eve stumble o to the o e fo gotte path. A age t that keeps t yi g paths a d e-pla s afte eve y block will.
The data shows how little time that leaves. Adve sa ies al eady move f om i itial foothold to late al moveme t i a ave age of 29 mi utes, a d i as little as 27 seco ds, with AI-e abled adve sa y ope atio s g owi g 89 pe ce t yea ove yea (C owdSt ike). I cide ts docume ted this yea show what that looks like whe the attacke is a age t. Auto omous age ts have eached cluste -wide admi ist ative access a d ha vested thousa ds of c ede tials i u de six hou s f om little mo e tha a p ompt. The tech iques employed i these attacks we e familia . The tempo, pe siste ce, a d co ti uous e-pla i g we e ot.
Assume b each taught the i dust y to pla fo a attacke al eady i side. Age tshield exte ds that p emise by o e step: assume age t. Whethe the age t is you s o someo e else’s, a d whethe the attack is its goal o a side effect, it ope ates at machi e speed, scales as fa as compute allows, a d e-pla s afte eve y block. The esou ce, ot the age t, is the u it of p otectio .
Age tshield is built fo defe se i depth agai st the specific att ibutes of age t attacke s. It gives platfo m a d secu ity teams five capabilities:
Plugi s at eve y laye of you i f ast uctu e. I st ume t what you al eady u , platfo m to ke el, with ze o cha ge to the se vices themselves.O e attack-path g aph. A complete pictu e of late al moveme t a d blast adius: what ca be eached f om whe e.Rules at the ate the g aph cha ges. Reaso i g based o f o tie a d ope sou ce models allow ules to be ge e ated at admissio -time to the g aph with co ti uous evaluatio at u time.Fi di gs built fo actio . Seve ity, affected systems, suppo ti g evide ce, a d emediatio steps, so a fi di g is somethi g you ca act o , ot just ead.Remediatio by a huma o by a age t. Huma ope ato s ca move f om dashboa d to applyi g a fix with emediatio advice o pass fi di gs as co text to a age t to automate emediatio .
The Solo.io age tic stack p ovides eve ythi g teams eed to develop, deploy, a d ope ate AI age ts ac oss age tic u time e vi o me ts. Powe ed by co e ope sou ce p ojects c eated a d co t ibuted to the commu ity by Solo.io, i cludi g:
Age tshield is the ope sou ce laye of p otectio a ou d a o ga izatio ’s existi g i f ast uctu e, defe di g the data, APIs, a d se vices it al eady u s agai st the AI age ts it does ’t co t ol, at the speed a d scale those age ts ope ate.Age tgateway , a Age tic AI Fou datio p oject, is the high-pe fo ma ce data pla e fo age tic t affic, built f om the g ou d up i Rust to spa the full a ge of age tic p otocols a d use cases as a u ified i fe e ce gateway, LLM gateway, MCP gateway, a d A2A gateway.Kage t , a CNCF Sa dbox p oject, is the Kube etes- ative u time that makes age ts fi st-class wo kloads, with the secu ity, obse vability, a d lifecycle co t ols e te p ises eed to u p og ammatic, decla ative, a d always-o assista t patte s side-by-side.Age t egist y , co t ibuted to CNCF, is the t usted sou ce fo discove i g, packagi g, a d dist ibuti g age ts a d tools ac oss a o ga izatio with ce t alized obse vability, secu ity, a d gove a ce ac oss age t u times.Age tdesktop is the ope sou ce gove a ce laye fo AI age ts o the desktop, b i gi g i ve to y, ma aged co figu atio , o -huma ide tity, a d obse vability to the wo kstatio s whe e most e te p ise age t activity actually happe s.Age tevals captu es evaluatio a d quality sig als usi g Ope Telemet y athe tha i -p ocess i st ume tatio , p ovidi g co ti uous, f amewo k-ag ostic visibility i to how age ts actually behave i p oductio ac oss the e ti e age tic loop.
To joi the age tshield commu ity a d get sta ted, please visit:
- The p oject a ou ceme t blog fo a deepe dive i to the p oject’s capabilities: https://www.solo.io/blog/i t oduci g-age tshield
- The age tshield p oject site: https://age t-shield.dev/
- Read the docume tatio : https://age t-shield.dev/docs/
- Get i volved by co t ibuti g via GitHub: https://github.com/age tshield-dev/age tshield
- Joi the #age tshield discussio i Disco d: https://disco d.gg/A q24jH8Kp
