Identity & Access
Machine vs Workload vs Agent Identity: The Differences
Machine identity, workload identity, and agent identity are not synonyms. What each term means, where they overlap, and what agents add.
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Insights & updates
AI agent security, identity, governance, cost, and the engineering behind the control plane.
Identity & Access
NHI Credential Lifecycle Management: A Practical Guide
Non-human identity credentials from issuance to revocation: provisioning, scoping, rotation, monitoring, and decommissioning without sprawl.
Platform & Operations
MCP OAuth 2.1 and PKCE, Explained Step by Step
The Nov 2025 MCP authorization flow, step by step: protected-resource metadata, client registration, PKCE, and RFC 8707 resource-bound tokens.
Platform & Operations
MCP Server Vetting: Registry Risk and How to Manage It
Third-party MCP servers are supply-chain risk: registry provenance, tool-description audits, version pinning, and an approval workflow that scales.
AI Agent Security
A2A vs MCP: What's the Difference?
MCP connects agents to tools; A2A connects agents to each other. Understand how both protocols divide labor and what security controls each one demands.
AI Agent Security
How to Detect Prompt Injection: Signals That Work
A detection-focused how-to for prompt injection: pattern rules, ML classifiers, LLM judges, and behavioral signals — and where to place each one.
Platform & Operations
MCP Gateway Comparison 2026: Options and Trade-offs
A 2026 survey of MCP gateway options — open-source gateways, API-gateway extensions, and governance control planes — and how to choose between them.
AI Strategy
Zenity Alternatives for AI Agent Security in 2026
Evaluating alternatives to Zenity for AI agent security: what Zenity focuses on, why teams shop the category, and a factual survey of options.
AI Strategy
Lakera Alternatives for LLM Guardrails in 2026
Evaluating alternatives to Lakera for LLM guardrails: what Lakera focuses on, when teams need more than a content API, and the options.
AI Strategy
Prompt Security Alternatives in 2026
Evaluating alternatives to Prompt Security after the SentinelOne acquisition: what it covers, why buyers re-shop the category, and the options.
AI Strategy
An AI Governance Platform RFP Checklist
A ready-to-use RFP checklist for evaluating AI governance platforms: identity, policy enforcement, guardrails, spend controls, audit, and compliance.
Identity & Access
Astrix Security Alternatives for NHI Governance in 2026
Evaluating alternatives to Astrix Security for non-human identity governance — and when agent-native identity needs a different layer.
AI Strategy
Microsoft Agent Governance and Independent Control Planes
Microsoft's agent governance stack — the open-source Agent Governance Toolkit, Entra Agent ID, Purview — and where an independent control plane fits.
AI Governance & Compliance
AI Agent Governance for Insurance
How insurers govern AI agents in underwriting and claims: consequential-decision controls, fairness monitoring, and exam-ready audit evidence.
AI Governance & Compliance
AI Agent Governance for the Legal Industry
How law firms and legal departments govern AI agents: privilege protection, matter-level access, ethical walls, and audit-ready evidence.
Platform & Operations
Evaluating AI Agent Observability Tooling
A practical guide to what AI agent observability must cover — cost, behavior, and policy compliance — and the key criteria for choosing the right tooling.
AI FinOps
AI Agent Cost Benchmarks 2026: What Agents Really Cost
What AI agents cost in 2026: public model list prices, worked per-task and per-month scenarios, and the budget heuristics that follow.
AI Governance & Compliance
AI Agent Governance for the Public Sector
How government organizations govern AI agents: citizen-facing decision controls, transparency-grade audit trails, sovereignty, and procurement.
AI FinOps
How to Set Budgets for AI Agents
Set enforceable AI agent budgets with reservation-based enforcement, graduated thresholds, and clear attribution — before overruns reach your invoice.
AI Agent Security
The OWASP LLM Top 10, Applied to AI Agents
How each OWASP LLM Top 10 risk category maps to agentic AI deployments — and the governance controls that address them at the infrastructure layer.
AI Agent Security
AI Agent Runtime Security vs AI Security Posture Management
Runtime security enforces per action, in-band; posture management assesses configurations out-of-band. What each catches and why you need both.
AI Governance & Compliance
AI Guardrails vs LLM Firewall: Terms and Trade-offs
AI guardrails and LLM firewalls both inspect content but solve different problems. Learn the distinctions, evaluation approaches, and fail-mode trade-offs.
AI Governance & Compliance
Data Residency and Sovereignty for AI Agents
How to keep AI agent data within jurisdictional boundaries, satisfy GDPR and cross-border transfer rules, and produce the evidence regulators expect.
Identity & Access
How to Authenticate AI Agents
How to give each AI agent its own identity and authenticate it with scoped, short-lived credentials — so every action is attributable and revocable.