Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Forms New Agentic Research Council
Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Forms New Agentic Research Council
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Publish Date: 2026-06-01 04:00:00
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At Infosecurity Europe 2026, the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) will formally unveil the Agentic Research Council, a coordinated research effort created to close the widening gap between fast‑moving agentic AI capabilities and the slower pace of conventional security research and standards.
The Agentic Research Council is being launched from within OWASP’s GenAI Security Project by its Agentic Security Initiative, the same community that produced the well‑adopted Top 10 guidance for LLM security.
It will be formally announced during Infosecurity Europe’s OWASP GenAI Summit, on Thursday, June 4.
Aligning Research with Industry Concerns About Agentic AI
Speaking to Infosecurity ahead of the event, John Sotiropoulos, co-lead and board member of OWASP’s GenAI Security Project and Agentic Security Initiative, framed the new council as the next step in a project whose core strength is combining broad community input with expert validation.
He described the Agentic Security Initiative as “expert backed, but community driven.”
The Council is intended to create a global collaboration between academia, industry, government and policy makers so research can be prioritized, aligned and converted into deployable mitigations more quickly than traditional standards cycles allow.
“Up to now, we, at the Agentic Security Initiative, have been focusing on cybersecurity practitioners, on CSOs, CISOs, developers. Now, we want to expand and encompass research and allow the two groups to inform each other,” Sotiropoulos said.
“This already happens today in an ad hoc fashion, but we want to make it more coordinated and direct.”
Sotiropoulos explained that the rationale for the Council springs directly from the pace and nature of agentic systems.
He warned that, because AI agents can act at machine speed, their use puts a lot of standard industry practice into question.
“This speed of change requires us to align a bit more,” he…
