A Survey on Agentic Security: Applications, Threats and Defenses

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Main Authors: Shahriar, Asif, Rahman, Md Nafiu, Ahmed, Sadif, Sadeque, Farig, Parvez, Md Rizwan
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Published: 2025
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author Shahriar, Asif
Rahman, Md Nafiu
Ahmed, Sadif
Sadeque, Farig
Parvez, Md Rizwan
author_facet Shahriar, Asif
Rahman, Md Nafiu
Ahmed, Sadif
Sadeque, Farig
Parvez, Md Rizwan
contents In this work we present the first holistic survey of the agentic security landscape, structuring the field around three fundamental pillars: Applications, Threats, and Defenses. We provide a comprehensive taxonomy of over 160 papers, explaining how agents are used in downstream cybersecurity applications, inherent threats to agentic systems, and countermeasures designed to protect them. A detailed cross-cutting analysis shows emerging trends in agent architecture while revealing critical research gaps in model and modality coverage. A complete and continuously updated list of all surveyed papers is publicly available at https://github.com/kagnlp/Awesome-Agentic-Security.
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spellingShingle A Survey on Agentic Security: Applications, Threats and Defenses
Shahriar, Asif
Rahman, Md Nafiu
Ahmed, Sadif
Sadeque, Farig
Parvez, Md Rizwan
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
In this work we present the first holistic survey of the agentic security landscape, structuring the field around three fundamental pillars: Applications, Threats, and Defenses. We provide a comprehensive taxonomy of over 160 papers, explaining how agents are used in downstream cybersecurity applications, inherent threats to agentic systems, and countermeasures designed to protect them. A detailed cross-cutting analysis shows emerging trends in agent architecture while revealing critical research gaps in model and modality coverage. A complete and continuously updated list of all surveyed papers is publicly available at https://github.com/kagnlp/Awesome-Agentic-Security.
title A Survey on Agentic Security: Applications, Threats and Defenses
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06445