Cybersecurity
Agentic Threat Intelligence: When Both Sides Move at Machine Speed
Autonomous SOC agents now rewrite firewall rules. Attackers embed AI across the kill chain. The collision point is here.
Everyone shipped multi-agent systems in 2025. Now the failures are surfacing — context loss between handoffs, conflicting tool calls, runaway loops, and cascading hallucinations. Here's what's breaking and how to fix it.
Read the Analysis →A single unsanitized function in Anthropic's MCP SDKs enabled 10 critical CVEs, poisoned 9 of 11 registries, and exposed 200,000 instances to RCE. Anthropic called it expected behavior.
Four attack families — MCP protocol exploitation, prompt injection, credential leakage, and agent-to-agent trust — map a surface that zero-trust architectures were not designed to cover.
AI agents chain OAuth tokens across services that were never designed to be connected. The Context AI breach and the MCP trust gap show how consent becomes a lateral movement vector.
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The Vercel breach traced through Context AI OAuth tokens exposed a five-stage kill chain that bypasses MFA, survives password rotation, and is replicable across any platform that chains third-party OAuth integrations.
AI agents operate with borrowed human credentials or shared service accounts. Google just shipped cryptographic agent identities in Gemini Enterprise. Here is how the identity gap breaks zero-trust architectures and what the emerging agent IAM pattern looks like.
B2B SaaS teams face a clear inflection point around tenant isolation. Here is the decision framework that maps shared databases, schema separation, and dedicated instances to actual team size and revenue.
Prompt injection, credential exposure, access controls, output validation, and observability — five domains with concrete steps for each.
Learn how to detect, assess, and govern the unsanctioned AI tools employees are already using with your company data.
IBM X-Force data shows alert volume becomes harmful at 500–700 per analyst per day. SANS surveys confirm MTTR increases 300% when teams exceed this threshold.
Rate limits protect backend services. Connection pooling reduces overhead. The unseen costs add up — and the architecture choices determine whether they help or hurt.
Stop guessing where triage time is lost. Run a four-hour diagnostic that reveals the exact phase leaking your alert response time.
IAM roles vs. policies, KMS key rotation, S3 bucket public access, logging defaults, and network isolation — the five controls that prevent 95% of breaches.
78% of breaches go undetected for months — not because attackers are better, but because detection models are fundamentally wrong.
Most agents confuse chat history with actual persistence. Here's the technical distinction — and when each is appropriate.
Build times balloon after adding too many scanners. The threshold isn't scanners — it's failure count. 12 critical issues is where overhead pays off.
Most companies are building AI roadmaps in the wrong order. The one shift that changes everything has nothing to do with model choice.
More tools don't mean more velocity. The teams shipping fastest have fewer integrations, not more — and a deliberate reason for each one.