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Agentic AI + Zero Trust: A Guide for Business Leaders
Author(s): Josh Woodruff (Author), Michelle Savage (Author), John Kindervag (Foreword)
- Publisher: MassiveScale.AI
- Publication Date: September 9, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 354 pages
- ASIN: B0FQR3BFS3
- ISBN-13: 9798999530011
Book Description
Every business leader knows they need AI agents. Almost none know how to deploy them without catastrophic risk. Until now.
Don't know what Zero Trust means? Perfect. This book explains everything in plain English for business leaders ready to deploy AI safely and successfully.
While 83% of enterprises race to deploy AI agents, most expose themselves to catastrophic risks. Zillow lost $380 million. Air Canada was forced to honor promises their chatbot invented. Japan's financial AI made $350 million in unauthorized trades. Every week brings new headlines of AI disasters that were completely preventable.
Here's what the headlines miss: For every AI disaster, there are companies quietly generating millions with autonomous agents while their competitors form committees. The difference? They built security in from day one.
The brutal truth: 87% of AI projects never make it past pilot stage. This book ensures you're in the successful 13%.
Written by someone who's been at the forefront of technology transformation for over three decades—from the dawn of the internet to the age of agentic AI—this isn't another technical manual. It's a conversational guide that shows you exactly how to deploy AI agents that deliver results without destroying your business.
You need this book if you're:
- A CEO who knows AI agents are table stakes but can't get straight answers on safe deployment
- An executive watching competitors announce "AI-powered" everything while you're stuck in committees
- A business leader who just discovered your teams already have AI agents in production (surprise!)
- A board member asking tough questions about AI strategy and getting word salad in response
- Anyone who refuses to choose between innovation and protection
Inside, you'll discover:
✓ The Agentic Trust Framework—Fortune 500-tested architecture for AI agents you can actually trust
✓ Real disaster stories—and exactly how to prevent them
✓ Why companies moving fastest aren't skipping security—they're building it in from day one
✓ Your 90-day roadmap—from AI-curious to safely operational with measurable ROI
✓ Industry playbooks for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and retail
✓ Crisis protocols for when agents misbehave at 3 AM
✓ The hidden reasons why 40% of agentic AI projects fail—and how to avoid them
This isn't about choosing between speed and safety. It's about using security as your accelerator.
The author has spent years working with companies as they navigated the earliest days of this frontier. Through extensive research and hands-on experimentation, he developed the Agentic Trust Framework specifically to address the security gaps emerging as companies rush to deploy AI agents. The patterns in this book come from studying both successes and failures across industries, synthesizing what works into a framework that scales.
As the founder of MassiveScale.AI, he's seen companies make the same fundamental mistakes—thinking tactically when they need to think strategically, building for today when they need to architect for tomorrow. This book combines battle-tested Zero Trust principles with emerging AI practices.
The age of autonomous AI is here.Your agents will either be secured properly, or you'll join the growing list of companies that learned the hard way. You don't need to wait for disasters to happen to learn from them. This book has done that homework for you.
Stop watching from the sidelines while competitors deploy AI agents that never sleep and make split-second decisions worth millions. Learn the security-first approach that separates the 13% who succeed from the 87% stuck in pilot purgatory.
Your competitors are already reading this book. When will you?
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
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Game Changer: A Must-Read for Today's Business Leaders - This book is a game-changer. For business leaders who want more than just to keep pace, but to lead in the generative AI era, this is a must-read. It comprehensively lays out how to approach this new frontier with clarity and conviction-and not merely ahead of the pack, but ready to revolutionize their business. If you truly want to understand how to apply agentic AI together with zero-trust thinking, then this book gives you the framework to do so.
Security isn't a roadblock, it's an accelerator - Josh Woodruff nails it: 80% of the AI battle isn't code, it's cultural change. This book perfectly articulates how Zero Trust transforms security from the "Department of No" into a high-performance framework. Think of it like a jet: security isn't just the airframe; it's the flaps and reverse thrusters. Without those control surfaces, you could never land safely or maneuver at high speeds. By providing these "brakes," Woodruff shows how organizations can actually fly faster and more aggressively. A must-read for any executive navigating the intersection of AI innovation and Cybersecurity.
Best Agentic AI book to date. Recommend highly - Excellent book that covers a wide spectrum of security and the need for zero trust from day 1 to prevent higher costs and liability down the road. This is a must-read for anyone wondering how security is integrated into Agentic AI effectively.
Excellent book - easy to follow! - Important read for any business leader who's thinking long term about agentic ai. It broke things down for me in a way that felt crystal clear and easy to grok. This technology is changing my business in so many ways and it's great to have a guide to walk me through it. Definite must read.
Easy read. - This book is a surprisingly clear and engaging look at where cybersecurity is headed. The author breaks down complex concepts like evolving AI models and zero-trust architecture in a way that feels practical, not overwhelming. I loved the real-world examples that show how these technologies actually play out in modern systems. It's informative, timely, and genuinely eye-opening. If you work in tech or just want to understand the next wave of digital security, this book is absolutely worth the read.
About the Author
Michelle Savage combines decades of experience design leadership with cutting-edge Al expertise to help business leaders navigate their Al transformation journey. As a n experience design leader at PayPal and member of Chief, s h e drives product and process innovation through Al-first strategies. Her background as a writer and journalist enables her to translate complex Al concepts into clear, actionable strategies for business leaders.
John Kindervag is widely recognized as the creator of the Zero Trust security model. Formerly a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, he has advised global enterprises and government organizations on modern security strategy and is a leading voice in Zero Trust architecture and implementation.
