Signature GenAI assessment

Verify whether effective agent authority matches the intent.

Agent Authority is the signature focused engagement within the GenAI Security Assessment service area. It tests whether a production-bound agent stays within the authority intended for the right user, tenant, delegated task, tools, APIs, credentials, actions, and destinations. The exact boundary, schedule, delivery team, outputs, and fee are tailored to the client and documented before work begins.

Engagement designTailored

Commercial terms, timing, and scope limits are defined in the tailored proposal.

Qualification determines whether the work should be a readiness review, active verification, focused authorization assessment, remediation retest, or another bounded scope. A signed proposal and agreement define the work.
Decision
The release, customer commitment, architecture choice, or risk question the work must support
System boundary
The applications, agents, APIs, network segments, identities, cloud services, email and endpoint controls, approved facilities and zones, participant populations, critical assets, and dependencies included
Environment + access
Representative environments, approved identities, domains, populations, systems, sites, data constraints, production parity, facility authority, and available evidence
Test depth
Critical assets, roles, tenants, threats, attack paths, simulated messages or behaviors, physical-control scenarios, control seams, and required manual validation
Deliverables
Technical evidence, executive decision support, customer-shareable material, working sessions, workshops, and reporting needs
Follow-up
Remediation support, retest boundary, timing constraints, and any agreed closeout work

Does assembled behavior preserve the authority your team intended?

The work begins with the important allowed and prohibited paths. It then evaluates whether application logic, agent orchestration, identity, API controls, credentials, tools, and downstream systems preserve those boundaries when assembled.

Prompt injection, indirect prompt injection, parameter manipulation, retries, fallbacks, alternate destinations, and state transitions may be used where they help answer the authority question. They are methods—not the whole category being sold.

The evidence record identifies production-parity assumptions, unavailable paths, environmental differences, and anything the approved assessment cannot establish.

A controlled path from intent to observed evidence.

PHASE 01

Frame the decision

Define the launch, customer commitment, or architecture decision the evidence must support.

PHASE 02

Map intended authority

Document actors, tenants, delegated tasks, identities, tools, destinations, credentials, and allowed actions.

PHASE 03

Verify observed behavior

Exercise approved allow-and-deny paths, capture evidence, and investigate discrepancies without expanding scope by implication.

PHASE 04

Close the decision

Deliver the agreed engineering evidence, decision support, remediation priorities, and retest record where included in scope.

Active testing starts only after qualification, written authorization, access readiness, evidence rules, escalation contacts, and stop conditions are complete. Schedule and any retest window are stated in the signed engagement documentation.

What needs to be ready.

  • A named system owner and accountable decision-maker
  • A customer-controlled environment suitable for the approved work
  • Approved test identities for the relevant users, roles, services, and tenants
  • A high-level statement of intended authority and known approval boundaries
  • Technical contacts for the application, identity, agent, and downstream systems
  • An agreed test window, escalation path, stop conditions, and evidence rules

What this assessment is not.

  • Unbounded enterprise-wide red teaming
  • Continuous monitoring, SOC, MDR, or managed detection
  • Emergency incident response or around-the-clock availability
  • Model-alignment, bias, or content-safety certification
  • Compliance attestation, legal opinion, or security guarantee
  • Production testing unless it is expressly authorized in the signed scope

Qualification

Check whether the GenAI agent-authority assessment fits the decision.

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Check engagement fit