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SecurityWeek's roundup covers Rubrik Agent Identity (short-lived scoped tokens per individual tool call), Mimecast Agent Risk Center (ties every discovered agent back to the human who deployed it), Legit Security VibeGuard 2.0, Menlo's MARS, Promptfoo MCP Proxy, Tanium Atlas MCP Server, Zero Networks "Least Agency Enforcement." Separately, 35 of Black Hat's 121 briefings (29%) were AI security, AI red teaming, or LLM-assisted offense. Agent security stopped being a research topic and became a procurement line item this week.
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After 20+ years maintaining Paint.NET, Rick Brewster concluded WINE's Direct2D would never be complete enough for what he needed, so the app now carries its own from-scratch reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation. He puts it at 180,000 lines against 700,000 for the rest of...
Allen Bargi's August 15 post hit 302 points arguing that AI collaboration rewards context-sharing, examples, and feedback over precise instruction (Hacker News). The pushback holds that the piece conflates management with leadership. mikeocool calls it "the most low effort ver...
Simon Willison released it August 4, calling it "the most significant new version since the initial launch of the project," which from him is not marketing. The agent-relevant pieces: tools can raise llm.PauseChain to stop for human approval, and chains resume from pending cal...
Four vendors shipped the same idea in one day on August 4 (SecurityWeek): Zero Networks' Least Agency Enforcement (identity-based microsegmentation plus just-in-time MFA), Airlock Digital's command- and session-level agent endpoint visibility, Acalvio's Deception Guardrails (h...
Cyera, KnowBe4, Sweet Security, Varonis, Zero Networks, Cato Networks, Cribl and Prophet Security all announced agent-focused controls August 3 at Black Hat, plus Acalvio and Cycode days prior. The convergence is unusually tight on mechanism, not just theme: nearly all ship pr...
Riffing on Apple's DRI management concept, he argues accountability requires an entity that can actually be held responsible, and a machine cannot (Simon Willison). It's a sharp, quotable counterweight to the "let the agent own it end-to-end" enthusiasm. I keep this one close...
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