The MAESTRO Blueprint – 7 Layers of Agential Defense

Traditional threat modeling focuses on data flows and perimeters, but in a world where AI defenders act autonomously, we must defend the layers of their "digital anatomy" just as nature protects the nested systems of an organism.Most security frameworks fail to capture the complexity of multi-step reasoning and independent tool use; the MAESTRO framework provides a 7-layer reference architecture to systematically secure agentic systems at the pace of innovation