My Writing

I write about security leadership and technology, sharing strategies, practical frameworks, and field notes. My goal is to capture what I've learned and contribute to conversations in our community.

• Artificial Intelligence Making Sense of Security for AI: The AI Defense Matrix
  The AI Defense Matrix maps eight AI asset classes to NIST CSF functions, giving security leaders one grid to assign ownership, find gaps, and select controls. Sounil Yu and I co-authored it as the...
• Tools Build a Decoy MCP Server to Catch AI Agent Attackers
  Your AI agent's MCP config can be a target for an attacker who reaches your machine. A decoy MCP server entry pointing at a Cloudflare Worker can reveal the attacker's presence and their intent.
• Tools Plant Honeytokens to Detect Intrusions
  Plant decoy credentials, configs, and URLs to surface an attack the rest of your stack might miss. Deployment scenarios include MCP server entries, AWS API keys, and Cloudflare Workers serving fake...
• Tools The Personal AI Stack: A Power User's Guide
  An AI tool like Claude Code gives you solid general-purpose capabilities out of the box. To make it truly indispensable, add the layers that teach it who you are, how you work, and what you do.
• Risk Management Trust Boundary of SaaS Will Include Customers' AI Agents
  SaaS vendors should assess whether their trust boundary includes customers' AI agents. Liability has pushed banks toward securing the customer's device four times, and the fifth wave is forming...
• Artificial Intelligence What to Make of AIUC-1, a New AI Agent Certification
  New certifications start as claims and earn credibility through cycles of scrutiny. AIUC-1, a compliance framework for AI agent vendors, is at that starting point. How its structure, governance, and...