{
 "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
 "attribution": "Fide AI, Agentic Cyber Explorer",
 "url": "https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/events/caisi-rfi-security-ai-agents-2026/",
 "asOf": "2026-09-26",
 "id": "caisi-rfi-security-ai-agents-2026",
 "date": "2026-01-08",
 "datePrecision": "day",
 "title": "NIST CAISI requests public input on security considerations for AI agent systems",
 "lane": "policy",
 "kind": "program",
 "summary": "CAISI published a Federal Register request for information on practices for measuring and improving the security of AI agent systems, citing hijacking, backdoors and indirect prompt injection. It asks about model-level, system-level and human-oversight controls, assessment methods, and ways to limit, modify and monitor deployment environments.",
 "whyItMatters": "It is a US government solicitation focused specifically on agent security controls and how to measure them.",
 "actors": [
  "us-caisi",
  "nist"
 ],
 "topics": [
  "standards-and-guidance",
  "prompt-injection",
  "sandbox-containment",
  "monitoring-and-control"
 ],
 "atlas": [
  "sandbox",
  "tools",
  "human-approver"
 ],
 "artifacts": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-08/html/2026-00206.htm",
   "publisher": "Federal Register (GovInfo)",
   "title": "Request for Information Regarding Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents",
   "date": "2026-01-08",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  }
 ],
 "keyFacts": [
  {
   "fact": "Docket NIST-2025-0035; comments due March 9, 2026.",
   "locator": "Federal Register notice header"
  },
  {
   "fact": "Five topic areas: security threats and vulnerabilities (hijacking, backdoors, indirect prompt injection); security practices at model, agent-system and human-oversight levels; assessing agent security; limiting, modifying and monitoring deployment environments; additional considerations.",
   "locator": "Request for Information topics"
  }
 ],
 "significance": 3,
 "fideQuestions": [],
 "methods": [
  "ai-monitoring",
  "indirect-prompt-injection",
  "sandboxing-egress"
 ],
 "review": "assistant-drafted",
 "addedOn": "2026-09-25"
}