Safeguarding and Securing Autonomous AI Agents

As autonomous AI agents become integrated into critical sectors, the need to safeguard and secure these systems becomes urgent. Unlike traditional software, autonomous agents make decisions and take actions with minimal human oversight, increasing their potential and risks. Malicious exploitation, unintended behavior, and adversarial manipulation are real-world threats that demand robust security frameworks. This calls for a multidisciplinary approach that combines cybersecurity, AI ethics, regulatory oversight, and technical safeguards to ensure systems operate safely, reliably, ethically. Safeguarding and Securing Autonomous AI Agents explores agentic AI security, focusing on the unique risks, threats, and defensive measures required to safeguard autonomous AI agents. It examines threat models, detection and mitigation strategies, and ethical considerations for their safe deployment. This book covers topics such as fraud detection, ethics and law, and risk management, and is a useful resource for engineers, policymakers, security professionals, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

Hewa Majeed Zangana is an Assistant Professor currently affiliated with Duhok Polytechnic University (DPU) in Iraq. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) degree in ITM, which he is currently pursuing at DPU. Prior to his current role, Hewa Majeed Zangana has held various academic and managerial positions. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at Ararat Private Technical Institute and a Lecturer at DPU's Amedi Technical Institute, and Nawroz University. He has also held administrative positions such as Curriculum Division Director - Presidency of DPU, Information Unit Manager of The Research Center at Duhok Polytechnic University, Head of the Computer Science Department at Nawroz University, and Acting Dean of the College of Computer and IT at Nawroz University. Hewa Majeed Zangana's research interests span a wide range of topics in computer science, including network systems, information security, mobile communication, data communication, and intelligent systems. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, EAI, IGI-Global, Inform, Indonesian Journal of Education and Social Science, TIJAB, INJIISCOM, and AJNU. In addition to his research contributions, Hewa Majeed Zangana has been actively involved in editorial roles such as Editorial Board Member at Applied and Computational Engineering (ewapublishing.org), serving as a Reviewer for the Scientific Journals of Nawroz University. He has also been a member of various scientific committees and administrative bodies at Nawroz University, including the Scientific Curriculum Development Committee, the Student Follow-up Program Committee, and the Committee for the Preparation of the Rules of Procedure for Consultative Offices.

Marwan Omar received the master's degree in information systems and technology from the University of Phoenix, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in digital systems security from Colorado Technical University, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he conducts research as well as teaches cyber security.