least-privilege
Safeguard articles tagged "least-privilege" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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What Is Agentic Development Security?
When an AI agent can read your repo, run commands, open pull requests, and call external tools on its own, the security model shifts from reviewing code to governing an actor. Here is what agentic development security means and why it is different.
MCP Server Security: 8 Best Practices for 2026
The Model Context Protocol connects AI agents to your tools and data. That power cuts both ways. Here are eight concrete practices for running MCP servers without handing attackers a remote control.
The Principle of Least Privilege, Explained
Least privilege means every user, service, and process gets exactly the access it needs to do its job — and nothing more. Here's why it contains breaches and how to implement it without breaking things.
GCP IAM security best practices
GCP IAM misconfigurations, not exploits, cause most cloud breaches. Here is how to enforce least privilege, lock down service accounts, and audit access.
What Is a Software Agent? A Security Guide to Autonomous Programs
A software agent is a program that acts on a user's behalf, often with some autonomy. Here is what that means and the security concerns that come with delegated action.
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.
Kubernetes securityContext Capabilities: Drop ALL, Add Only What You Need
Linux capabilities are the privileges inside a container that attackers reuse after a breakout. Setting Kubernetes securityContext capabilities to drop ALL is the cheapest hardening you will do.
CISA's Agentic AI Secure Adoption Guide (May 2026): What It Means for Software Supply Chains
On May 4, 2026, CISA and international partners published guidance on the secure adoption of agentic AI. We break down the named risks, the recommended controls, and how to operationalize them for AppSec and platform teams.
AWS Permission Boundary: How to Cap IAM Privileges Safely
An AWS permission boundary sets the maximum permissions an IAM identity can ever have. Here is how boundaries work, when to use them, and the mistakes that quietly defeat them.
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.
What Is an IAM Permission Boundary and When to Use One
An IAM permission boundary is a ceiling on what a role or user can ever do, no matter how generous their attached policies are. Here is how to wield it without locking yourself out.
Kubernetes SecurityContext Capabilities: Drop vs Add
Kubernetes securityContext capabilities let you strip Linux kernel privileges from a container instead of accepting the runtime default set — here's when to drop, when to add back, and why dropping ALL first is the right starting point.
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