AWS Security Blog
Author: Liana Hadarean
Liana is a Principal Applied Scientist at AWS. She has worked on the code analysis tools that power Amazon Q's Java security detectors, and is now a contributor to the Cedar policy language.
Why Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore chose Cedar for securing agentic workflows
Agents have agency: they adapt and find multiple ways to solve problems. This autonomy creates a fundamental security challenge: the large language model (LLM) at the heart of the agent is non-deterministic, and its decisions can’t be predicted or guaranteed in advance. It can hallucinate harmful actions with complete confidence. It’s vulnerable to prompt injection […]