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Trust Boundary

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

A trust boundary is a line in a system architecture where the level of implicit trust changes — for example, the boundary between an agent's internal reasoning context and an external tool, between one organisational tenant and another, or between a low-trust public network and a high-trust internal network. Security controls — authentication, authorisation, validation, and logging — are applied at trust boundaries to prevent untrusted data or principals from being granted unearned access.