The next gap in your AI agent’s security model may not be in its tool list. Most threat models for agentic AI ask one question: what is this agent allowed to use? Far fewer ask what the infrastructure around it does by default. Curious?
CYFIRMA’s new report, “Shadow Channels,” examines three architectural gaps that reviews focused on declared tools and permissions can miss:
1. Trace Drain: Observability pipelines capture prompts, completions, and tool arguments as part of normal operation. Could a trusted telemetry path become a quieter route for data to leave?
2. Sleeper Context: Saved memories can outlive the conversations that created them, making it harder to trace a later behavior change back to its source.
3. The Sighted Adversary: Computer-use agents can remove the human-attention cost that many UI friction controls quietly relied on.
Link to the Research Report: https://www.cyfirma.com/research/shadow-channels/
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