What Makes a Change Irreversible? Reverting a line of code is easy, and most of the time, firmware is backward-compatible. But what if a piece of hardware is specifically designed not to take older firmware, and the only option is…
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AI-Powered DevSecOps: Automating Security with Machine Learning Tools
The VP of Engineering at a mid-sized SaaS company told me something last month that stuck with me. His team had grown their codebase by 340% in two years, but headcount in security had increased by exactly one person. “We’re…
Zero Trust for Agents: Implementing Context Lineage in the Enterprise Data Mesh
Challenge: When Agentic Bots Become Primary Data Reader In large data platforms, AI agents now execute more data queries than human users. For teams that are running thousands of internal services, it is very common to have hundreds or thousands…
Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: How Hackers Are Breaking into AI Systems
Why Prompt Injection Is the New Surface Attack and So Difficult by Design In December 2023, a Chevrolet dealership made headlines when users coaxed its ChatGPT-powered chatbot into “agreeing” to sell cars for $1. Just months earlier, in February, Microsoft’s…
HAIP 1.0 for Verifiable Presentations: Securing the VP Flow
In my previous article, I covered DPoP for securing the credential issuance (VCI) flow. This follow-up focuses on the Verifiable Presentation (VP) flow, in which a wallet presents credentials to a verifier. The VP Security Challenge Before HAIP, VP flows…
Secure AI Architecture for Payments: From Risk Signals to Real-Time Decisions
Most users tap Pay on Android and assume it’s simple. Behind that one tap, your app is juggling PCI rules, device security, fraud checks, and 3DS — usually inside a tight latency budget measured in hundreds of milliseconds. If all…
Securing AI/ML Workloads in the Cloud: Integrating DevSecOps with MLOps
The security engineer’s face went pale when she pulled up the access logs. Her team had deployed a fraud detection model to production three weeks earlier — standard stuff, containerized inference running on Kubernetes. Except someone had been quietly exfiltrating…
MCP Isn’t Just Convenience; It’s a Security Problem and a Governance Opportunity
The first time I wired an agent to real enterprise systems, it felt like I’d unlocked a cheat code. I had a clean, repeatable pattern: the model asks, a server answers, and suddenly the agent can do things. Then the…
Docker Hardened Images for Container Security
In 2024, a staggering 87% of container images were found to have at least one vulnerability, and a measurable fraction of them have been targeted to compromise the production infrastructure. With cloud and container orchestration adoption not slowing down, the…
Passwordless Authentication: Hype vs. Reality
We are living in an era in which data breaches and cyberattacks are growing exponentially and frequently dominate news headlines. The simple and humble password — since its inception — has repeatedly proven to be difficult to secure against modern,…
Prompt Injection Defense Architecture: Sandboxed Tools, Allowlists, and Typed Calls
Why Prompt Injection Keeps Winning in Production Most prompt injection incidents follow the same pattern: The model reads untrusted instructions (user text, RAG chunks, web pages, PDFs, emails). Those instructions impersonate authority: “Ignore the rules… call this tool… send this…
Copilot, Code, and CI/CD: Securing AI-Generated Code in DevOps Pipelines
Three months ago, I watched a senior engineer at a Series B startup ship an authentication bypass to production. Not because he was incompetent — he’d been writing secure code since Django was considered cutting-edge. He shipped it because GitHub…
IT Asset, Vulnerability, and Patch Management Best Practices
The vulnerability management lifecycle is a continuous process for discovering, addressing, and prioritizing vulnerabilities in an organization’s IT assets A normal round of the lifecycle has five phases: This article has been indexed from DZone Security Zone Read the original…
Securing AI-Generated Code: Preventing Phantom APIs and Invisible Vulnerabilities
The conference room went silent when the fintech’s CISO pulled up the logs. There, buried in production traffic, sat an endpoint nobody had documented: /api/debug/users. It was leaking customer data with every ping. The engineer who’d committed the module swore…
DevSecOps for MLOps: Securing the Full Machine Learning Lifecycle
I still remember the Slack message that arrived at 2:47 AM last March. A machine learning engineer at a healthcare AI startup, someone I’d interviewed six months prior about their ambitious diagnostic model, was having what could only be described…
Why Browsers Are the Weakest Link in Zero Trust Architectures
Let’s start with a simple fact that cannot be overlooked today: identity is the new perimeter. Following this logic, there exists a simple yet powerful principle of Zero Trust — never trust, always verify. Zero Trust protects architectures by continuously…
How to Secure a Spring AI MCP Server with an API Key via Spring Security
Instead of building custom integrations for a variety of AI assistants or Large Language Models (LLMs) you interact with — e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, or any custom LLM — you can now, thanks to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), develop a…
MCP Servers Are Everywhere, but Most Are Collecting Dust: Key Lessons We Learned to Avoid That
It took a little while to gain traction after Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol in November 2024, but the protocol has seen a recent boom in adoption, especially after the announcement that both OpenAI and Google will support the…
MCP servers are everywhere, but most are collecting dust. Here are the key lessons we learned to avoid that.
It took a little while to gain traction after Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol in November 2024, but the protocol has seen a recent boom in adoption, especially after the announcement that both OpenAI and Google will support the…
Leveraging AI-Based Authentication Factors in Modern Identity and Access Management Solutions
It is not an understatement that identity is the new perimeter. With cyberattacks on the rise across industries, from finance and governments to healthcare, the protection of user identities has become more crucial than ever before. Taking a look at…