Security engineering for the age of AI agents

We help teams ship AI agents that act on behalf of users without becoming the easiest way into the company. Architecture, identity, MCP hardening, evaluation.

Your existing security model was built for humans clicking buttons

Your agent keeps memory or notes between sessions.

A document it read last week can still be giving it instructions today. We trace every path that writes to memory and gate each one as a privileged action with provenance.

Your agent connects to MCP servers or third-party tools.

Tool descriptions, tool results, and sampling messages share one context with no privilege separation. A payload split across two of them looks harmless to every scanner and complete to the model. We separate the channels and check the assembled context.

Your agent reads tickets, emails, PDFs, or screenshots from outside the company.

One image in a support ticket can rewrite the configuration file your agent trusts on every future turn. We put config and memory writes above the approval line regardless of how benign they look.

You rely on a monitor or guardrail model to block bad actions.

The monitor judges from a transcript, and the agent writes most of the transcript. We build checks from system-observed state and data provenance, so the agent cannot argue its way past them.

Your agent builds prompts from your database, schemas, or customer-supplied data.

A column comment becomes an instruction on every path that shares the same context builder. We classify every string entering a prompt by who controls it.

Architects who still ship

We read your code and your infrastructure before we write a recommendation. Findings come with the mechanism, not just the CVSS score, so your engineers understand why a control matters and can extend it without us. We write designs your team can implement, and when you want us to implement them, we do that too. Every engagement ends with something you own: a threat model, a design document, a test suite, or working code.

20+

years of security engineering across Amazon, Microsoft, Smartsheet, and telecom

1,000+

engineers trained and mentored on secure-by-design practice

Procurement

security programs that cleared enterprise procurement and opened upmarket sales

Pre-launch

penetration tests delivered on deadline for public technology companies

From our research

How AI agents fail, and what would have stopped it

All research

What our clients say

“Fantastic service. Foretheta helped us in our data science project. They did incredible work in making our application run faster and more secure with fewer resources.”

Reed Jessen, BCG

“We needed a competent and reliable team to build secure APIs and integrate them into our existing web application. They listened to our requirements and offered an efficient build and integration roadmap.”

Shawn Ambwani, Unified Patents