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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...

A Self-Hosted MCP Server That Blocks Tool Calls Against Policy: How It Works and How to Run It

Every tool call an AI agent makes is a decision point. Before the agent reads a file, writes a record, or calls an external API, there is a brief window...

Deterministic Policy Enforcement for AI Agents: What Vaikora Decides Before an Action Runs

Production AI agents make tool calls that touch real systems: databases, APIs, file stores, cloud services. The gap in most security architectures is that...

Governance Gaps in Data Security Programs: What Gets Missed When Classification Stops at the File Level

Sensitive data often gets classified, tagged, and forgotten. The file gets a label, the label satisfies an audit checkpoint, and then the data moves...