Insecure Agents lives at the intersection of AI engineering and security. Stay ahead of the curve with expert insights, real-world incidents, and bold ideas for safer agents.
Insecure Agents
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Insecure Agents lives at the intersection of AI engineering and security. Stay ahead of the curve with expert insights, real-world incidents, and bold ideas for safer agents.
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July 28, 2026
Reinventing Distributed Systems for AI Agents: Andrew Baker & Cornelia Davis (Temporal)
<p>Andrew Baker, who leads Developer Relations at Temporal, and Cornelia Davis, Principal Technologist at Temporal and author of Cloud Native Patterns, join us from AI Engineer World's Fair to explain why building AI agents keeps re-teaching the industry lessons it already learned in the microservices era. We get into how MCP is growing up, moving from a simple request-response protocol to async MCP Tasks, going stateless, and adding an extension for OAuth and Enterprise Managed Auth. Cornelia walks through why shared memory across parallel agents brings back both an access control problem and a concurrency problem the industry spent years designing away, and why it is still very much unsolved. Andrew explains how the harness and the credentials are moving outside the sandbox, so an agent holds only a short-lived token scoped to the task at hand and nothing more. And they show why a durable event history is what lets you reconstruct what an agent did and roll it back, so that if an agent drops a database, you can actually go back.</p>
July 23, 2026
Solving the Agent Identity Crisis, with Sergey Burykin (Uber)
<p>Sergey Burykin, Senior Software Engineer on Uber's AI Security team, joins us to explain the agent identity crisis and how Uber solved it while running roughly 1,000 agents in production. </p><p>Sergey helped write Uber's article "Solving the Identity Crisis for AI Agents," and his core argument is that an agent should be authorized on the intersection of user permissions and agent permissions, never just one. Use only the user's permissions and a hallucinating agent can make calls the user never intended. Use only the agent's identity and any user who reaches the agent inherits access to sensitive business and customer data. </p><p>We get into the infrastructure Uber built to enforce that (a secure token exchange service and an MCP Gateway as the policy enforcement point), why AI security depends on identity, authorization, runtime guardrails, and observability, and why static OAuth scopes break for non-deterministic agents that need dynamic, least-privilege access.</p>
July 21, 2026
Security Isn't the Brake, It's the Throttle: Snyk CTO Manoj Nair on Securing Agents at Machine Speed
<p><strong>Manoj Nair</strong>, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk, joins us at Snyk HQ during <strong>AI Engineer World's Fair</strong> to discuss the architectural decision he argues the next 24 months of agentic security depend on: the generator cannot be the validator. </p><p>We get into why "the fox guarding the henhouse" is suddenly a live security question ("I can use AI to secure AI, so do I still need a separate security offering?"), why finding vulnerabilities was never the hard part and fixing them safely inside the loop is, and why securing at inception means combining independent models with deterministic data and security research rather than just pointing one model at your codebase. </p><p>Manoj also walks through Snyk's Evo, an agentic security orchestrator built on the fighter-pilot OODA loop that turns a security engineer into a 10X AI security operator, why the agents' own supply chain (the MCP servers and skills they pull at runtime) is now its own attack surface, and why he sees security as the throttle, not the brake.</p>
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