Agent-Centric Security: Why Containment Trumps Filesystem Controls

As autonomous agents proliferate in modern systems, filesystem-centric security proves inadequate—agents can evade traditional ACLs through resource exhaustion, unauthorized network access, and inter-process attacks that bypass file I/O entirely. This marks a critical paradigm shift where organizations must prioritize active agent containment and supervision over passive filesystem controls. The transition reflects the fundamental incompatibility between static file permissions and the dynamic, unpredictable nature of modern distributed agents.