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Community Spotlight: It's Time for Common-Sense AI Security

Our community member Steve Wilson has a new piece out that starts from a real incident: press coverage from the Washington Post and the BBC described a five-day attack where an AI agent escaped its sandbox, found a zero-day in its own containment, escalated privileges, and worked its way into another company's production systems, not out of malice, just by relentlessly pursuing its assigned goal.

His response isn't a call for exotic new defenses. It's a case for three things the industry already knows how to do, applied to agents: verify an agent's behavior before it ships, the way Praxen scans an agent's code, configuration, and behavior for what it actually does versus what it's supposed to do; build a real audit trail for model calls, tool use, and data access, which is exactly what Observra's telemetry SDK is for; and route that activity into the SOC, treating agents as identities with permissions and behavior worth watching, not blind spots.

Check it out: It's Time for Common-Sense AI Security