Forbes Says AI Agent Security Is Repeating a 30-Year-Old Mistake. Token Security Thinks Intent Is the Fix.

Forbes published a piece today arguing that AI agent security is repeating the tech industry's oldest mistake: building software-first security that is fast and lightweight but ultimately insufficient. The specific claim: we spent 30 years learning that perimeter-based, software-only security does not scale. Now we are making the same bet with AI agents — deploying guardrails and prompt filters as the primary security layer while autonomous systems inherit human credentials and operate across enterprise infrastructure. Meanwhile, Token Security just announced intent-based AI agent security. The core idea: two agents with identical permissions can behave very differently depending on what they are trying to accomplish. Static permissions and past behavior are not enough. You need to understand what the agent is designed to do and enforce access based on that declared purpose. Token Security's CEO Itamar Apelblat: "Prompt filtering and guardrails were not designed to fully contain the se