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April 3, 2026

Why the ChatGPT Leak Proves We Need a Zero-Trust Harness for AI Agents

If your AI agent gets tricked by a prompt injection, a firewall won't stop the data leak—but a cryptographic kill switch will.

March 19, 2026

The McKinsey AI Breach: How a Zero-Port Architecture Stops Autonomous Agents in Their Tracks

The McKinsey AI breach proved that legacy perimeter security is broken against autonomous AI agents. See the 4 steps of the machine-speed hack and why Atsign's Zero-Port Architecture would have stopped the attack instantly.

February 24, 2026

Where CEO Vision Meets CISO Approval: Launching AI Architect

Atsign's AI Architect brings secure-by-design guardrails to generative AI development, allowing teams to define agent roles, data boundaries, and zero-trust permissions before writing a single line of code.

February 14, 2026

The SDLC is Broken: Building Architectural Trust for Agentic AI

The SDLC is broken. As AI moves from chatbots to autonomous agents, here is how the architecture of trust must change.

February 10, 2026

The MCP Security Paradox: Why the "USB-C for AI" Is an Architectural Minefield

Model Context Protocol promises universal connectivity for AI, but its current architecture is scaling a broken trust model that leaves sensitive enterprise data vulnerable to exploitation.

January 16, 2026

How to Let AI Agents Act on Your Behalf Without Losing Control

Imagine your AI agent rebooking a canceled flight and hotel while you sleep—securely. Learn how the atPlatform solves the trust and permission problems of AI, allowing agents to act for you while you maintain total control.

January 14, 2026

Why 95% of GenAI Pilots Fail (and How to Ensure Yours Doesn't)

Why do 95% of GenAI pilots fail? It’s not the AI—it’s the legacy infrastructure. Learn how to bridge the friction gap using Restricted Access Agents (RAA) to build a production-ready, secure future for your AI initiatives.

January 6, 2026

The AI Chain of Trust: Secured by Atsign

Your AI supply chain is a liability. Atsign secures it with verifiable identities and edge encryption to prevent model theft.

November 18, 2025

AI Sprawl: The Network Nightmare Caused by the AI Security Paradox

As enterprise AI agents proliferate across multi-cloud environments, traditional network perimeters collapse—requiring identity-first, zero-trust connectivity to contain AI sprawl without sacrificing security.

November 10, 2025

Why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Demands a Structural Rethink of AI Security

To safely scale AI agents, enterprises must ditch perimeter-based security and adopt Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enforce cryptographic identity boundaries around sensitive data.

November 5, 2025

Why Our Cybersecurity Industry Is Fundamentally Broken

Stacking firewalls and VPNs on top of exposed listening ports won't stop machine-speed AI attacks—true cybersecurity requires removing external attack surfaces at the root network layer.

August 4, 2025

Governing AI: Essential Questions for Board Members to Ensure Safe and Secure Deployment

As AI transforms business, board members must ask critical questions to oversee its safe, secure, and ethical deployment and mitigate new, evolving risks.