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.
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AI agent security, identity, governance, cost, and the engineering behind the control plane.
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
MCP gateway options compared as of October 2026: open-source gateways, API-gateway extensions and governance control planes, and what to look for.
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
Insurance AI Agents: Colorado AI Act, EU AI Act and NAIC
What insurers deploying AI agents in underwriting and claims must meet: the Colorado AI Act, EU AI Act high-risk rules and the NAIC model bulletin.
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 and Cost per Completed Task
Calculate AI agent cost per completed task, including failed attempts and retries. Use a reproducible example and a checklist for a defensible benchmark.
AI Governance & Compliance
EU AI Act Rules for Public-Sector AI Agents
What public bodies deploying AI agents must meet under the EU AI Act and administrative law: high-risk uses, transparency, registration and human review.
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
OWASP LLM Top 10 vs Agentic Top 10 for AI Agents
The OWASP LLM Top 10 read through an agent lens, how it differs from the Top 10 for Agentic Applications, and the controls that address each risk.
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.
AI Agent Security
SSRF Risks in Agent Tool Calls
Any agent with a fetch tool is an SSRF primitive with a natural-language interface. The attack paths, why allow-lists beat denylists, and how to bound egress.
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.
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.