Posts tagged with "Security"

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Security & Compliance
October 19, 2026

Six agents, one £350 refund: your Azure agent guardrails

Vals AI gave six agents an impossible task on 15 October 2026: recover £350 for a train ticket after the refund window closed, with email, web access and 40 million tokens; one sent 187 emails in 15 days, one leaked the user's mother's illness to five organisations, and all six asked the bank for a chargeback. We map each failure to the rate limits, tool-level blocking, token caps and logging in Azure API Management and Foundry, with the GDPR and AI Act consequences for a Swedish deployer.

AI Agents
Agent Guardrails
Azure API Management
AI Gateway
Microsoft Foundry
Agent 365
MCP
GDPR
EU AI Act
Vals AI
Security
By Falak Mahmood
Security & Compliance
October 7, 2026

The same MCP flaw at Google, JPMorgan and DINUM: your audit

Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France's DINUM and an Indonesian city government have each fixed the same server-side request forgery flaw in their MCP servers, with Google's case scored CVSS 8.0 as CVE-2026-14540. Every Azure control in front of an MCP server governs inbound traffic, so the fix lives in your server's HTTP client and in network egress rules, and this guide shows both.

MCP
Model Context Protocol
SSRF
Security
Azure API Management
Microsoft Foundry
Copilot Studio
Azure Container Apps
Cyber Resilience Act
AI Agents
By Falak Mahmood
Security & Compliance
April 14, 2026

Azure Entra Agent ID: Identity and Permissions for Agentic AI

A deep dive into Microsoft Entra Agent ID, the control plane for AI agent identity in 2026. Covers identity blueprints, attended and unattended authentication, tool-level RBAC, conditional access, OBO flows across multi-agent systems, and the audit logging that satisfies DORA, NIS2, and AI Act obligations.

Entra
Azure AD
Identity
AI Agents
Agentic AI
RBAC
Zero Trust
Security
Microsoft Foundry
Compliance
By Falak Mahmood
Security & Compliance
March 31, 2026

Azure Managed Identity and Key Vault: Secret Rotation Without Outages

A practical pattern for rotating Azure secrets with zero downtime using Managed Identity, Key Vault rotation policies, and versioned references — including the common mistakes that cause rotation-induced outages.

Managed Identity
Key Vault
Azure
Security
Secret Rotation
By Falak Mahmood
Security & Compliance
March 10, 2026

NIS2 in Sweden: The Practical Engineer's Checklist

Sweden's cybersäkerhetslag (2025:1506) took effect on 15 January 2026, and the engineering detail sits in the ordinance and the MCFFS regulations rather than the headlines. This checklist covers scope and the essential versus important split, registration with FRA, the eight supervisory authorities, the three incident reports and their deadlines, supplier contract clauses, and the Azure and Microsoft 365 controls behind each of the ten measure areas.

NIS2
Cybersecurity
Compliance
Sweden
Security
By Falak Mahmood
Security & Compliance
February 24, 2026

Passkeys for B2B SaaS: A Migration Playbook

A step-by-step migration playbook for rolling out passkeys in a B2B SaaS — from opt-in enrollment and conditional mediation, through account recovery and device attestation, to the failure modes that still catch teams out.

Passkeys
WebAuthn
Authentication
B2B SaaS
Security
By Falak Mahmood
Next.js & React
February 5, 2026

Server Actions Security: CSRF, Origins, and the Gaps

What Next.js Server Actions actually protect against out of the box, what they do not, and the security patterns — auth, rate limiting, input validation, file-upload hardening — every production app should layer on top.

Server Actions
Next.js
Security
CSRF
Web Security
By Falak Mahmood
Security
December 16, 2025

Supply-Chain Attacks on npm: 2025 Lessons for Next.js Teams

A review of the npm supply-chain incidents that defined 2025 — typosquats, self-replicating worms, and dist-tag hijacks — plus the concrete hardening steps every Next.js team should have in place before 2026.

Security
Supply Chain
npm
Next.js
DevSecOps
By Falak Mahmood
Security
December 12, 2025

Next.js Security Alert: CVE-2025-55184 & CVE-2025-55183 - Upgrade Guide

Critical security vulnerabilities in Next.js 13-16 App Router: CVE-2025-55184 enables DoS attacks, CVE-2025-55183 exposes Server Action source code. Learn which versions are affected and how to upgrade immediately.

Next.js
Security
CVE-2025-55184
CVE-2025-55183
App Router
Server Actions
Vulnerability
React
Web Security
DoS
Source Code Exposure
Vercel
By Falak Mahmood
Security
December 9, 2025

Critical React Server Components Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182): Upgrade Now

A critical CVSS 10.0 remote code execution vulnerability affects React 19 Server Components. Learn which versions are affected and exactly how to patch your Next.js, React Router, and other RSC applications immediately.

React
Security
CVE-2025-55182
React Server Components
Next js
Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability
React 19
Server Components
RSC
Web Security
JavaScript
By Falak Mahmood