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Where a Security Agent’s Memory Begins
How a harness carries evidence and assessments through a run, preserves earlier states and decides what survives after it.
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Agentic Security Engineering
Building with Agents
Lessons for defenders who want to master the use of agents.
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Inside the Skeleton of a Security Agent
A model call returns text. The engineering that turns it into a useful security agent happens around it: inputs, tools, boundaries and validated outputs.
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Your Prompt Is Not a Security Boundary
Instructions can guide a model. Real boundaries come from the checks, approvals and permissions that control what its tools can actually do.
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How an Agent Decides What to Do Next
Think, act, observe: follow a tool request around the agent loop, and see how each result shapes the next question.
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What Is Threat Hunting?
Bring human judgment into detection, understand its limits, and see how agents can extend it.
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Build Agents That Amplify You
Design collaboration, automate the work, amplify the defender, and use the right system for each job.
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Stop Overengineering Your Agents
Only ever make things as complex as they need to be. What that means for an agent harness.
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How Should Security Agents Use Data?
When the data is prepared, how it is represented, and how those choices work together.
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The Foundational Problem of Using Agents for Security
Why raw telemetry needs a designed interface before it reaches an agent.
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What Is an Agent Harness? A Security Perspective
Understand the model, the harness, and why the system around the model matters.
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