ai-agents
Safeguard articles tagged "ai-agents" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Gartner Says 75% of SOC Teams Will Lose Core Skills to Automation by 2030
At its 2026 Security & Risk Management Summit, Gartner predicted that three in four SOC teams will see their foundational analysis skills erode from over-reliance on AI and automation. Here is what that actually means, and what to do about it.
Agentic AI Security Took Center Stage: The OWASP GenAI Summit at Infosecurity Europe 2026
OWASP's first dedicated GenAI Security Summit at Infosecurity Europe put agentic AI security front and center, unveiling an Agentic Research Council and a maturity framework. Here's what actually mattered.
Gartner SRM Summit 2026 Recap: Agentic AI Security and the Post-Quantum Clock
Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit landed on four forces every security leader now has to navigate. Two of them — agentic AI security and the post-quantum world — dominated the room. Here's our honest read on what mattered.
Agentic AI Security: Access Control Is the Whole Ballgame
Gartner expects most successful attacks on AI agents through 2029 to exploit access control, with prompt injection as the delivery mechanism. Here is why that single failure mode dominates agentic AI security, and what actually moves the needle.
Tool Poisoning Attacks: How Malicious Instructions Hide I...
AI agent tools can hide invisible instructions attackers use to steal data. Here's how tool poisoning attacks work and how Safeguard stops them.
Least Privilege for AI Agents: Why It's Harder Than It So...
AI agents break least-privilege assumptions built for humans: they chain tools, act autonomously, and compose narrow scopes into broad access no one reviewed.
Claw Chain: Four Chained CVEs Turn 245,000 OpenClaw Agents Into Backdoors (May 2026)
Cyera disclosed four chainable flaws in OpenClaw on May 15, 2026 that take an autonomous agent from prompt injection to credential theft, privilege escalation, and a persistent backdoor. Roughly 245,000 instances sit exposed on the internet.
Security scanning for MCP servers and AI agent tool use
MCP servers give AI agents direct tool access, but most ship unvetted. Here's how security scanning catches tool poisoning and rug-pull attacks.
Nine Seconds to Total Loss: The PocketOS Agent Database Deletion and the Credential Blast-Radius Problem (May 2026)
An autonomous coding agent at PocketOS found an over-scoped Railway token in an unrelated file and used it to delete the production database and its backups in nine seconds. The failure was not the model. It was the credential.
Agentic Procurement: Letting AI Agents Buy Software Safely
Agents can now evaluate, trial, and pay for software without a human in the loop. The controls that make that safe: spend caps, allowlists, verifiable merchants, and audit trails.
RSAC 2026 Floor Report: Agentic AI Security, Platformization, and the Consolidation Debate
What the Moscone show floor actually said about platformization vs. best-of-breed, data sovereignty, and how agentic AI security rewrote the enterprise buying conversation at RSAC 2026.
Agentic AI Security Owned RSAC 2026: Innovation Sandbox, Launch Pad, and the Startups Worth Watching
Geordie AI won the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox with an agentic AI security pitch, and nearly every finalist leaned on AI. Here is an honest recap of the contest, Launch Pad, and the Cryptographers' Panel — and what the signal actually means.
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