Platform & Operations
MCP Gateway: What to Look For
Evaluate MCP gateways on four criteria that actually matter: agent authentication, per-tool scoping, rate limits, and forensic audit logging.
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Insights & updates
AI agent security, identity, governance, cost, and the engineering behind the control plane.
AI Strategy
AI Agent Governance: Build vs Buy
An honest framework for deciding whether to build AI agent governance in-house or buy a platform, weighed by risk, team capacity, and time-to-value.
AI Agent Security
An AI Agent Incident Readiness Checklist
A practical checklist for AI agent incident readiness: inventory, instant revocation, tamper-evident audit trails, runbooks, and communication templates.
AI Strategy
AI Control Plane vs API Gateway: What's the Difference?
An API gateway manages traffic; an AI control plane governs agents. Learn the five critical gaps gateways leave open and what a control plane adds.
AI FinOps
Threat Model: Runaway Agent Spend
Loop-and-burn failures drain AI budgets fast. Learn the blast radius, five root conditions, and the layered controls that stop runaway spend before the invoice.
AI Strategy
How to Choose an AI Agent Governance Platform
A criteria-driven framework for evaluating AI agent governance platforms across identity, guardrails, cost controls, audit trails, and multi-agent trust.
AI Agent Security
Securing the AI Agent Supply Chain
Provenance, attestation, and runtime verification protect AI deployments from compromised third-party agents and tools — and how supply chain security works.
AI Governance & Compliance
ISO/IEC 42001 for AI Management Systems
ISO/IEC 42001 sets requirements for AI management systems. See what the standard expects and how agent governance controls map directly to its Annex A clauses.
AI Governance & Compliance
An AI Agent Compliance Checklist for 2026
A practical AI agent compliance checklist covering identity, tamper-evident audit trails, GDPR erasure, EU AI Act risk tiers, and vendor due diligence.
AI Agent Security
Threat Model: Indirect Prompt Injection
Indirect prompt injection hijacks tool-using AI agents through poisoned external content. Learn the attack vectors and layered controls that contain them.
AI Governance & Compliance
A Glossary of AI Governance and Agent Security Terms
Precise definitions of AI governance and agent security terms — guardrail, control plane, A2A, attestation, trust score — for specs and vendor evaluations.
AI Governance & Compliance
Applying the NIST AI RMF to AI Agents
Apply the NIST AI RMF to AI agents: map GOVERN, MAP, MEASURE, and MANAGE to controls like agent inventories, threat models, audit trails, and revocation.
AI Governance & Compliance
An AI Governance Maturity Model
Five stages of AI governance maturity for agents, from ad-hoc to optimized, with concrete indicators and the specific work needed to advance each stage.
AI Strategy
Measuring the ROI of AI Agents
Practical frameworks for quantifying AI agent ROI — cost per outcome, time recovered, and deflection rate — so you can move beyond vanity usage metrics.
Identity & Access
Threat Model: Agent Credential Theft
How AI agent credentials get stolen and abused, and the controls that limit blast radius: credential scoping, short lifetimes, rotation, and fast revocation.
AI FinOps
The Cost-Control Architecture for AI Agents: Budgets and Quotas
The full cost-control architecture for AI agents: how budgets, quotas, rate limits, and reservation-based enforcement fit together into one system.
Identity & Access
SSO and SCIM: Enterprise Identity for AI Tools
SSO and SCIM give enterprises full control over AI tool access — federated authentication plus automated lifecycle management that keeps access current.
AI Agent Security
Threat Model: Agent-to-Agent Delegation Abuse
When AI agents delegate tasks to each other, the delegation chain becomes an attack surface. How to threat-model and contain A2A delegation abuse.
Platform & Operations
Webhook Security: Signing and Verifying Events
HMAC signatures plus timestamp replay windows are the minimum bar for secure webhooks — here's why unsigned endpoints are dangerous and how to fix them.
Platform & Operations
Versioning and Rollback for AI Agents
Version AI agent workflows like code, diff changes between snapshots, and roll back safely when a new version causes regressions or runaway costs in production.
AI Agent Security
Incident Response for AI Agent Breaches
A practical incident response runbook for AI agent breaches: contain damage, revoke credentials, investigate with tamper-evident audit trails, and recover.
Platform & Operations
Threat Model: Over-Broad MCP Tool Scope
Over-broad MCP tool permissions give attackers an amplified attack surface. Learn the failure modes and control classes that shrink the blast radius.
AI Governance & Compliance
PII Detection and Redaction in AI Pipelines
Detect and redact PII before it reaches AI models or persists in logs — covering entry points, detection techniques, redaction strategies, and compliance.
AI Agent Security
Federated AI: Sharing Agents Without Sharing Data
How signed trust manifests and scoped admission controls let organizations share AI agents across boundaries without exposing data or credentials.