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Trustworthy Agentic AI: A Comprehensive Cybersecurity and Systems Survey on Threat Landscapes, Defense Architectures, and Open Challenges

A new arXiv survey (2609.13731v1) synthesizes 206 foundational studies and regulatory standards into a systems-security reference framework for trustworthy agentic AI, formalizing the general agent architecture as a stateful 5-tuple and establishing a 6-dimensional trustworthiness taxonomy covering security, safety, privacy, explainability, fairness, and accountability. The survey analyzes threat surfaces across intra-execution loops and interaction planes and proposes a multi-layered zero-trust defense-in-depth architecture integrating Dual-LLM isolation, Capability-Based Access Control, kernel eBPF probes, and sandboxed runtimes. It warns that granting probabilistic neural cores execution authority across filesystems, networks, and cloud infrastructure dissolves classical security perimeters, exposing a Turing-complete blast radius where untrusted data represents executable instructions.

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arXiv:2609.13731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from passive foundation models to autonomous, goal-directed agentic AI systems has introduced unprecedented capabilities by coupling recursive cognitive reasoning loops, persistent memory architectures, live tool execution planes, and multi-agent collaboration topologies. However, granting probabilistic neural cores execution authority across filesystems, networks, and cloud infrastructure dissolves classical security perimeters: natural language simultaneously serves as input data, internal control code, and communication protocols, exposing a Turing-complete blast radius where untrusted data represents executable instructions. This survey delivers a comprehensive systems-security reference framework for trustworthy agentic AI, synthesizing 206 foundational studies and regulatory standards. We formalize the general agent architecture as a stateful 5-tuple and establish a 6-dimensional trustworthiness taxonomy covering security, safety, privacy, explainability, fairness, and accountability. We systematically analyze threat surfaces across intra-execution loops and interaction planes, formulate a multi-layered zero-trust defense-in-depth architecture integrating Dual-LLM isolation, Capability-Based Access Control, kernel eBPF probes, and sandboxed runtimes, review standardized evaluation benchmarks, and map technical controls to international AI governance frameworks.

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