AI Agent for Cyber Security: What It Does, Where It Fails, and How to Deploy One Safely
An AI agent for cyber security is not a chatbot with a security skin. In the sense used across most current security tooling, it is a language model wired to tools, memory, and an orchestration loop that selects its own next step within limits a human sets. This explainer breaks the agent into its component layers, maps the defensive tasks it is being pointed at, examines how the same architecture serves attackers, details the new attack surface the agent itself creates, and closes with an…