Background:In the last quarter, we worked with a Tier-1 LLM company to evaluate the real security posture of their models, interface layers, and safety mechanisms. That engagement completed our third major model-security assessment, and across these three operations, one pattern became unmistakable: agentic AI is evolving far faster than today’s security assumptions. What emerged from these engagements is now a crystallised, field-tested framework for securing modern AI syste