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Vaikora Guard MCP: Why We Put the Policy Check in the Open-Source Layer

Getting policy enforcement into an AI agent pipeline has a placement problem. Most teams add checks in the application layer, which means the check runs...

Vaikora Guard MCP Is Now Open Source: Here Is What It Does to Every Tool Call Before It Runs

Before an AI agent calls a tool, something has to decide whether that call is allowed. Without a gate at that point, every downstream control is working...

What Happens When an MCP Server Checks Policy Before Letting a Tool Call Through

Policy checks that run after an AI agent has already called a tool are not enforcement. They are incident reports waiting to be written. The practical...

TacitRed: How Identity and External Threat Intelligence Works Before an Attacker Gets In

Compromised credentials sit in dark-web markets for days or weeks before anyone uses them. The organization they belong to usually has no idea they exist...

Vaikora Guard MCP: An Open-Source Policy Gate for Every AI Agent Tool Call

Twelve milliseconds is enough time to check whether an AI agent's next action is allowed. That check is exactly what most deployed agents skip entirely,...

Classification at the Source: Why Tagging Data Where It Originates Changes What Controls Can Do

Unclassified data is data your controls cannot distinguish from anything else. Every DLP rule, access policy, retention schedule, and audit query depends...

Building a Policy Gate Into an MCP Server: What the Code Does and Why It Matters Before Execution

Most teams discover what an AI agent did by reading logs after the fact. The problem with that approach is that by the time you read the log, the tool...

AI Agent Actions Without a Policy Gate: What Gets Executed Before Anyone Notices

An AI agent running in production can call an external API, write to a database, exfiltrate a file, or trigger a workflow in the time it takes a human to...

Why We Open-Sourced the Tool Call Gate: Vaikora Guard MCP on PyPI

When we looked at how teams were actually deploying AI agents, the gap was not detection after a bad action. It was that nothing blocked a bad action...