Security Posture — Zero Trust, GDPR, and Ethical AI Governance is the fifth volume of The Agile Enterprise Playbook, a five-book series built on the FOCUS Methodology — an execution-oriented framework for CTOs, enterprise architects, and technology leaders navigating the Gen AI era under GDPR, the EU AI Act, NIS2, and DORA.
Castle-and-moat security is dead. As the network perimeter dissolves and Agentic AI assumes autonomous execution, traditional boundary-based defense is deeply flawed — every user, service, and agent must now be authenticated, authorized, and audited continuously. This book shows how to secure the modern, borderless enterprise against the backdrop of Europe's stringent regulatory environment, giving you the full toolkit to execute:
- Zero Trust Architecture built on NIST and CISA principles
- Continuous authentication, microsegmentation, and dynamic least privilege
- Structured Autonomy for Agentic AI with the risk tiers mandated by the EU AI Act
- Mandatory human-in-the-loop escalation for high-risk AI systems
- Ethical impact assessments and algorithmic bias audits that keep automated decision-making compliant with GDPR Article 22
Written for practitioners in or trading with the EU, this is not a theoretical manifesto. Each chapter pairs the theory with a step-by-step methodology and real-world executions — from GenAI customer support agents to fintech scale-ups — so you can replace the castle-and-moat with a Zero Trust posture in which agentic AI acts under control: trusted, audited, and compliant by default.
