A 12-post series on AI agent threats, zero trust, defense in depth, and operational readiness.https://takeinterest.ai/en-ushttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/getting-started-with-guardclaw/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/getting-started-with-guardclaw/A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up GuardClaw, your first security layer for AI agents. From install to your first security report in five minutes.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/watching-your-agents-work/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/watching-your-agents-work/GuardClaw's supervised execution wraps any agent command, intercepts threats in real time, and builds a tamper-evident audit trail. Here's what that looks like, step by step.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-happens-when-agents-outnumber-people/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-happens-when-agents-outnumber-people/Machine identities outnumber humans 25-50x in most enterprises. AI agents will widen the gap. Governance frameworks built for human-majority organizations are expiring.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/your-security-dashboard/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/your-security-dashboard/The GuardClaw dashboard shows threat stats, audit trails, and compliance alignment in one place. Here's how to read it and what the numbers mean.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/guardclaw-and-gdpr/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/guardclaw-and-gdpr/When your AI agent processes personal data, GDPR applies. Here's how GuardClaw's controls map to the requirements that matter most.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/guardclaw-and-soc2/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/guardclaw-and-soc2/A practical guide to mapping GuardClaw's security controls to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. Which controls GuardClaw satisfies and what evidence to show your auditor.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/guardclaw-and-the-eu-ai-act/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/guardclaw-and-the-eu-ai-act/The EU AI Act's enforcement provisions take effect August 2026. Here's what applies to AI agent deployments and how GuardClaw's controls map to the requirements.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/how-guardclaw-is-different/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/how-guardclaw-is-different/There are other approaches to AI agent security. Here's where GuardClaw fits, what trade-offs we made, and why we made them.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/rolling-out-guardclaw-across-a-team/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/rolling-out-guardclaw-across-a-team/How to deploy GuardClaw for a development team — shared workspaces, consistent policies, and a single dashboard for everyone's agent activity.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/setting-up-alerts-and-monitoring/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/setting-up-alerts-and-monitoring/How to get notified when GuardClaw catches something important — without watching the dashboard all day.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/setting-up-guardclaw-for-claude-code/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/setting-up-guardclaw-for-claude-code/A step-by-step guide to integrating GuardClaw with Claude Code using hooks. Every tool call gets checked before execution.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/setting-up-guardclaw-for-cursor/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/setting-up-guardclaw-for-cursor/How to add GuardClaw's security layer to Cursor's AI agent. Same protection, different integration path.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/the-detection-engine-how-it-works/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/the-detection-engine-how-it-works/GuardClaw checks 1,000+ patterns in under a millisecond. Here's the tiered architecture that makes that possible — Bloom filters, Aho-Corasick, RE2 regex, and anomaly detection.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-the-receipt-chain-proves/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-the-receipt-chain-proves/GuardClaw's receipt chain is a tamper-evident audit trail for everything your AI agents do. Here's how it works, what it proves, and why auditors care.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-to-do-when-guardclaw-blocks-something/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-to-do-when-guardclaw-blocks-something/Your agent hit a denial. Is it a real threat or a false positive? Here's how to read the denial, investigate, and decide what to do next.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/writing-your-first-security-policy/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/writing-your-first-security-policy/GuardClaw policies define what your agent can and can't do. Here's how to write one, what the defaults mean, and how to adjust them without breaking your workflow.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-new-hires-and-ai-agents-have-in-common/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-new-hires-and-ai-agents-have-in-common/Your company has an onboarding process for people. It probably doesn't have one for agents. The same trust-building patterns apply to both.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTInsightshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/friday-agent-permission-audit-checklist/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/friday-agent-permission-audit-checklist/A 90-minute permission audit you can run before the weekend. Nine checks, one agent at a time, measurable results by Monday.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/three-layers-agent-permission-scoping/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/three-layers-agent-permission-scoping/Agent permissions need three layers: identity (who is this?), scope (what can it access?), and context (should it access this right now?). Here's how to build them.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/least-privilege-wasnt-built-for-agents/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/least-privilege-wasnt-built-for-agents/The principle of least privilege assumes a human on the other end. When the user makes 10,000 decisions per hour, the implementation needs to change.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/why-your-agent-has-more-access-than-you/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/why-your-agent-has-more-access-than-you/70% of security leaders say AI agents have more system access than humans in the same role. Here's how the default got this backwards.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/agents-with-admin-access-4-5x-more-incidents/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/agents-with-admin-access-4-5x-more-incidents/Teleport's 2026 research found that over-privileged AI agents experience 4.5x more security incidents. One default setting explains most of the gap.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/nist-wants-agents-governed-like-employees/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/nist-wants-agents-governed-like-employees/NIST's AI Agent Standards Initiative signals a future where agents need identity, accountability, and lifecycle management — just like the people who build them.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/we-trust-systems-we-cant-inspect/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/we-trust-systems-we-cant-inspect/From plumbing to power grids to AI agents — humans routinely trust invisible infrastructure. That trust works until it doesn't.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/agent-supply-chain-security-five-steps/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/agent-supply-chain-security-five-steps/A five-step checklist for securing your AI agent's supply chain — from skill vetting to dependency pinning to runtime monitoring.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/audit-agent-trust-boundaries-this-week/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/audit-agent-trust-boundaries-this-week/A practical guide to mapping and testing every trust assumption your AI agents make — from network access to credential scope to tool permissions.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/enterprises-cant-see-their-own-agents/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/enterprises-cant-see-their-own-agents/Nearly 70% of enterprises run AI agents in production. Most can't tell you how many they have, what they access, or who owns them. That's identity dark matter.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/820-malicious-agent-skills-nobody-noticed/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/820-malicious-agent-skills-nobody-noticed/Koi Security found 820+ malicious skills on ClawHub, up from 324 weeks earlier. Agent marketplaces are the new attack vector builders aren't watching.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/one-localhost-assumption-gave-hackers-control/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/one-localhost-assumption-gave-hackers-control/The OpenClaw ClawJacked vulnerability shows how a single implicit trust assumption in an AI agent framework let any website take over a developer's machine.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/eu-ai-act-checklist-before-august/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/eu-ai-act-checklist-before-august/The EU AI Act high-risk deadline hits August 2. Five compliance actions you can start this week, with a printable checklist.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/microsoft-recommendation-poisoning-attack/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/microsoft-recommendation-poisoning-attack/Microsoft discovered that summarize buttons can be weaponized. Recommendation poisoning is the supply chain attack nobody planned for.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/nist-ai-agent-security-rfi-breakdown/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/nist-ai-agent-security-rfi-breakdown/The NIST AI Agent Standards RFI just closed. Here's what it asked, what it signals, and what to prepare before April.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/firebase-misconfig-leaked-300m-messages/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/firebase-misconfig-leaked-300m-messages/An AI chat app with 50M users left a Firebase database open. A researcher found 300 million messages from 25 million people.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/prompt-injection-classified-as-malware/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/prompt-injection-classified-as-malware/Researchers want prompt injection reclassified as malware. A $40K bounty from UK AISI, OpenAI, and Anthropic is testing why.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/how-fast-can-attacker-hijack-agent/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/how-fast-can-attacker-hijack-agent/CrowdStrike says attack timelines are under 72 minutes. Your agent verification loop probably takes longer than that.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/88-percent-agents-shipped-without-security/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/88-percent-agents-shipped-without-security/Gravitee's 2026 data: only 14% of orgs got full security approval before deploying agents. Here's what the other 88% have in common.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/the-builders-responsibility/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/the-builders-responsibility/Medieval cathedral builders laid foundations for structures they'd never see completed. We're in a cathedral-building moment for AI. The decisions made today about agent safety will shape autonomous systems for decades.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-we-got-wrong/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/what-we-got-wrong/This is the post companies don't write. We're writing it anyway because showing the work, including the wrong turns, builds more trust than pretending we got everything right the first time.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/operator-readiness-for-ai-workflows/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/operator-readiness-for-ai-workflows/In video games you can see your stats. In agent security, most teams have no idea where they stand. A 15-minute self-assessment across five dimensions tells you exactly what to fix next.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/30-day-agent-security-checklist/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/30-day-agent-security-checklist/No philosophy. No metaphors. Just the steps. Four weeks to go from 'we should probably secure our agents' to 'we have a tested, documented security posture.' Start Week 1 today.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTOperationshttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai-for-security-decisions/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai-for-security-decisions/We're an AI security company that doesn't use AI for deny/allow decisions. Probabilistic models are incredible for detection and triage. They are unreliable for enforcement. Here's why that distinction matters.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/7-layers-of-defense/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/7-layers-of-defense/Most agent security uses one or two layers: input filtering and maybe an output check. That's a bouncer at the front door and no one watching anything else. Here's what defense in depth actually looks like.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/security-is-a-primitive/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/security-is-a-primitive/You don't ship a database and add data persistence later. Security is load-bearing architecture that gets exponentially more expensive to retrofit. Three primitives every agent system needs before first deploy.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/build-like-youll-get-it-wrong/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/build-like-youll-get-it-wrong/The best engineering teams don't plan for success. They plan for failure and design recovery into every system. Resilience beats perfection in production, in careers, and in life.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/zero-trust-was-built-for-humans/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/zero-trust-was-built-for-humans/Zero trust principles still hold for AI agents, but the implementation needs a complete rethink. Agents operate in milliseconds, chain tools autonomously, and make decisions that weren't explicitly requested.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/prompt-injection-is-the-easy-problem/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/prompt-injection-is-the-easy-problem/Prompt injection gets the headlines, but six other AI agent attack vectors cause more damage and get less defense investment. Mapping your full attack surface takes 30 minutes and changes how you think about security.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/the-identity-problem/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/the-identity-problem/Non-human identities vastly outnumber human users in enterprise environments, yet most organizations manage agent credentials with the same rigor they'd give a shared Netflix password.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/why-we-built-guardclaw/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/why-we-built-guardclaw/AI agents moved from demos to operators. The threat model changed faster than most teams' defenses.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityhttps://takeinterest.ai/blog/your-ai-agent-has-no-seatbelt/https://takeinterest.ai/blog/your-ai-agent-has-no-seatbelt/AI agents are shipping into production faster than safety standards can keep up. Teams deploying autonomous agents need runtime security controls before the first serious incident forces regulation on everyone.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurity