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View Kill the God Agent: how we think about agent security
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Kill the God Agent: how we think about agent security

Adesh Gairola

A God Agent is one model wired to every tool on one shared identity, holding the whole lethal trifecta at once: it reads untrusted content, touches private data, and talks to the outside world. You can't filter prompt injection out of that, so you change the architecture instead. Three deterministic moves: scope every agent, sign every call, stop every breach. Break even one leg of the trifecta and the blast radius shrinks.

View Alignment is a Security Problem, Not an Ethics Problem
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Alignment is a Security Problem, Not an Ethics Problem

Adesh Gairola

Misalignment maps onto vulnerability classes security engineers already operate on: backdoors, defense evasion, privilege escalation, exfiltration. Calling it ethics keeps it off security teams' desks. Reframing it as security decides who owns the work, which budget pays, and which playbook applies.

View Claude 4.7: Five Layers Blocking Cyber Attacks Before and After
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Claude 4.7: Five Layers Blocking Cyber Attacks Before and After

Adesh Gairola

Claude 4.7 doesn't rely on one safety mechanism. It stacks a rulebook, trained refusals, differential capability reduction, two runtime probes, and a live feedback loop. Understanding which layer blocks what matters if you're building on the API.

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BodySnatcher and the Missing Identity Layer

Adesh Gairola

BodySnatcher (CVE-2025-12420) showed how AI agents with aggregated permissions can compromise entire platforms in seconds. Traditional security controls designed for humans don't work at machine speed. Organizations need threat modeling and runtime controls for all three layers: API auth, identity binding, and agent execution.

View The $127M Algorithm: When Smart AI Goes Wrong
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AI Safety

The $127M Algorithm: When Smart AI Goes Wrong

Adesh Gairola

When AI appears to think but actually pattern-matches toward desired outcomes, you get sophisticated-looking failure. This fictional crisis demonstrates real research about AI limitations and how to build better systems.

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Shadow Coding: what, so what, now what?

Adesh Gairola

Shadow coding—developers using unauthorized AI tools or code—is creating significant security and compliance risks. Organizations need balanced governance that enables innovation while maintaining security.

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Claude 4 Risk Assessment - For enterprise deployment

Adesh Gairola

Claude 4 models introduce novel enterprise considerations including high-agency behaviors, self-preservation instincts, and potential consciousness indicators that may require enhanced risk management depending on your deployment context.