Security & Risk

Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the AI era, except there's no equivalent of a prepared statement to fix it. Why the right question isn't "how do I prevent it" but "what can a compromised agent actually do" — and how least privilege and narrow blast radius answer that.

"Sign In with Google" is convenient, but it turns your Google account into a single point of failure — locked out of Google means locked out of everything linked to it. Why password managers and passkeys give the same one-click convenience without the coupling.

A critical GoAnywhere vulnerability took a week to patch and then months for on-premises customers to install it — while ransomware groups exploited it in the wild. Why patch latency is an architectural problem, and the eight SaaS security practices (illustrated by Files.com) that eliminate it.

A two-service message queue example shows why granting only the minimum necessary permissions — write-only for the sender, read-only for the receiver — keeps a compromised service's blast radius as small as possible.

A flat security model is a reinforced front door on a house with paper-thin walls. Splitting production infrastructure into public, private, and DMZ isolation zones turns what could be a catastrophic breach into a contained, minor incident.

Cloud security is a split contract, not a handoff. Using AWS EC2 vs. RDS as examples, the dividing line between what your cloud provider secures and what you must secure yourself shifts service by service — and you need to know exactly where it falls.

Microservices multiply your attack surface. A single compromised service, even inside a private network you assumed was safe, can become a Trojan Horse for compromising every neighboring service.