How to Secure AI Agents on the MCP Protocol
MCP gives AI agents real tools, real credentials, and real blast radius. Here is a hardening guide for running MCP servers in production without torching your environment.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
MCP gives AI agents real tools, real credentials, and real blast radius. Here is a hardening guide for running MCP servers in production without torching your environment.
Different gates with different rules create gaps and developer friction. A unified policy engine evaluates one definition at PR, build, admission, and runtime.
A SOC 2 report does not mean the vendor is secure. Here is how to read attestations carefully, what FedRAMP actually proves, and how to ingest both at scale.
M&A due diligence runs on questionnaires that nobody can verify. Continuous asset discovery turns the diligence period into a data exercise.
SLSA Level 3 requires hardened builds, verifiable provenance, and isolated build environments. Here is the practical path, not the theoretical one.
Tool sprawl is the slow-motion failure mode of every SecOps program. Here is a blueprint for consolidating tools without losing coverage and without political damage.
A fact-based review of the best container image scanners in 2026, comparing Trivy, Grype, Snyk, Prisma Cloud, and Safeguard on accuracy and noise.
A practical security baseline for devcontainer.json files in 2026, covering base image selection, features, lifecycle scripts, and the supply chain controls that actually matter.
Moving from one orchestration platform to another surfaces hidden trust relationships. A security-first migration plan for Airflow, Dagster, and Prefect transitions.
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