# Organizations Assess AI Agent Security

A Cybersecurity Insiders article recommends assessing AI agents’ skills, tools, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers before deployment. It highlights the need to review permissions, data access, external connections, command execution, provenance, and behavioral risks, and recommends version-specific reviews, accountable approval and exception processes, least-privilege runtime access, human approval for high-impact actions, monitoring, and interruption mechanisms. The article identifies no government procurement, solicitation, award, contract value, or procurement contact; its guidance may inform cybersecurity requirements for future AI-agent acquisitions.

- Procurement teams developing AI-agent requirements can use these risk areas to shape security reviews and evaluate vendor capabilities, without treating the article as a government mandate.
- Contractors offering AI-agent products or services may benefit from documenting agent permissions, data access, external connections, provenance, and runtime controls to support future customer evaluations.
- The guidance emphasizes version-specific assessment and human oversight for high-impact actions, considerations that buyers can incorporate into evaluation criteria and operational controls.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence
**Published:** November 13, 2026

### Vendors
- BlueRock ()

### Sources
- [Before You Let AI Agents Act, Know What They’re Running - Cybersecurity Insiders](https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/before-you-let-ai-agents-act-know-what-theyre-running) - Cybersecurity Insiders