Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 15 min readIdentity Foundations: Everything Before OAuthBefore any protocol makes sense on its own terms, a few things underneath it need to be settled first: what authentication and authorization actually are as distinct concepts, how identity gets carrie00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 7 min readWannaCryOn May 12, 2017, something unusual began happening across the Internet. Computers in organizations around the world suddenly displayed a ransom demand. Files were becoming inaccessible. Businesses wer00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 9 min readIdentity Was the Gap I Did Not Know I HadI had worked across cloud security engineering, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and application security. I had reviewed IAM configurations across multiple cloud platforms, flagged over00
HSHarshal Shahindelvingwithharshal.hashnode.dev·Jul 26 · 6 min readAI Agent Security: Threats, Risks, and Best Practices for Autonomous AI SystemsAs AI evolves from simple chatbots to autonomous agents capable of making decisions and interacting with enterprise systems, security must evolve too. This article explores AI Agent architecture, atta00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 22 · 9 min readEverything Passed. Then the End-to-End Ping Failed.I dedicated my final year project to an unsung hero. Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet lieutenant colonel who prevented nuclear war by deciding not to trust a system that told him it was certain. My superv00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 19 · 8 min readI Built What I Thought Was a Secure App. Here's Everything I Got Wrong.During the final year of my undergraduate studies, my team submitted a cloud-based banking application as part of our Network and Cloud Security coursework. We had competition. Two other teams were bu00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 14 min readOperationalising It: Making Prisma Cloud Actually UsefulAfter the Rollout: The Work That Actually Starts Deploying Prisma Cloud took months. Making it operational took longer. By the time CWPP was live across OCI and GCP and CSPM was covering all four clou00
TSTech Skill Schoolintechskillschool.hashnode.dev·Jul 15 · 7 min readAI Agents Are Changing Cyber Attacks: What Security Professionals Need to KnowIn early 2026, a mid-sized financial firm experienced something unprecedented. What appeared as a coordinated ransomware attack unfolded in under one hour from initial access to domain-wide encryption00
SBSYLVESTER BENJAMINinbenjamin-sylvester.hashnode.dev·Jul 8 · 9 min readI Built the Perfect Security Scanner. Then I Realised I'd Been Asking the Wrong Question All Along.It was sometime past midnight when I caught the thing that changed how I think about this entire field. I wasn't at a client site. I wasn't in a meeting. I was sitting at my desk — same desk, same dua00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·Jul 7 · 3 min readWiring Real Agents Into Halo: From Stub Orchestrator to a Working Multi-Agent Pentest Pipeline Yesterday I had five agent roles sketched out on paper. Today I actually wired them together and watched them run a real engagement against a live target — and immediately hit (and fixed) the kind of 00
