The Cloud Security Alliance published MAESTRO (Multi-Agent Environment, Security, Threat, Risk, and Outcome), a threat modeling framework for agentic AI authored by Ken Huang. It organizes analysis into seven layers from foundation models to the agent ecosystem and highlights agent-specific threats such as goal manipulation, agent impersonation and collusion between agents.
Why it matters
It is a practitioner method for threat modeling multi-agent systems, aimed at gaps its authors see in STRIDE-style frameworks.
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- Seven layers: foundation models, data operations, agent frameworks, deployment and infrastructure, evaluation and observability, security and compliance, agent ecosystem.Framework layers section
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