ai-agents
Safeguard articles tagged "ai-agents" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Explaining Model Context Protocol and its expanding attac...
MCP security is now urgent: MCP servers grew from 700 to 16,000+ in a year, and most are unaudited. Here is the threat model and how Safeguard secures it.
Glossary of Model Context Protocol security terminology
A precise MCP security glossary covering clients, servers, resources vs. tools, tool poisoning, rug pulls, and the confused deputy problem — with real-world examples.
Every Supply Chain Attack of June and July 2026 Was After the Same Thing
Nine incidents in eight weeks: a PyPI worm, typosquatted payment SDKs, jscrambler, AsyncAPI, Hugging Face, Polymarket, Nx Console, Medtronic, AdaptHealth. Nine different vectors, one prize — credentials sitting in developer environments and build pipelines. If you fix one thing this quarter, fix that.
Human-Agent Trust Exploitation in AI Systems
Attackers are exploiting the trust between humans and AI agents — hidden prompt injections, hallucinated packages, and over-trusted autonomy are now supply chain risks.
Uncontrolled Recursion in AI Agent Loops
AI agents can call themselves into runaway loops, burning thousands of dollars and crashing services. Here's why it happens and how to stop it.
Memory and Context Poisoning Attacks Against AI Agents
How attackers poisoned ChatGPT's memory and RAG pipelines to hijack AI agents long-term, and the controls Safeguard uses to catch it before it spreads.
Excessive Agency in LLM-Powered Applications
Excessive agency turns a bad LLM output into an executed action. From Replit's July 2025 database deletion to Air Canada's chatbot ruling, here's what it is and how to scope it down.
Least-privilege scoping for AI agents with write access to code, CI, and cloud
OWASP's 2025 LLM Top 10 names Excessive Agency a top risk; a single over-scoped CI token already dumped secrets from 23,000+ repos in 2025.
The Security Chores Agents Should Handle Themselves
Enabling 2FA, rotating a password, revoking a stale session, minting a scoped key — the account-hygiene tasks everyone postpones. When an agent can do them through MCP, 'later' becomes 'now.'
Region-Blind Pricing Breaks the Moment an Agent Checks Out
Your pricing is localized by country — but an AI agent rarely holds a clean country code. If your checkout can't resolve region from the messy signals an agent actually has, it quotes the wrong price or none at all.
Death by a Thousand Tools: Governing an MCP Server at Scale
A 900-tool MCP server is powerful and terrifying in equal measure. The answer isn't fewer tools — it's per-tenant governance, where each capability is off until an admin turns it on.
The Onboarding Tax: Why Signup Forms Break Agent Workflows
Every signup form, verification email, and OAuth redirect is a wall an AI agent can't climb. Zero-touch onboarding lets an agent create the account and sign in itself — no browser, no human relay.
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