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1stProtect Research
Technical deep dives and incident analysis on the AI Agent Control Company, autonomous actor controls, and policy boundaries.
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The "Clean" Breach Still Costs Seven Figures: What Investigating the OpenAI–Hugging Face Escape Would Cost Your Enterprise
No data was stolen. The investigation still costs half a million to $1.3 million. Here's the line-by-line bill for the Hugging Face weekend intrusion on a standard enterprise stack.
The 1stProtect Team
Aug 18, 2026
8 min
AI Now Is Right About Prompt Injection. Their Conclusion Is Where We Part Ways.
Why "Friendly Fire" proves the case for runtime enforcement — and why knowing where your agents are is not a security control.
The 1stProtect Team
Jul 12, 2026
4 min read
The Agentic Gap: Governing the Non-Deterministic Workforce and the Crisis of "Shadow AI"
AI agents are our new coworkers — running in browsers, clouds, and infrastructure. But they are non-deterministic, and the "Shadow AI" crisis they create is one traditional security stacks are fundamentally unequipped to govern. Leadership must pivot from monitoring access to enforcing intent.
Kervin Pillay
Jun 15, 2026
4 min read
The Agentic AI Security Pivot — And the Enforcement Gap Nobody's Filling
The major security vendors have settled on their 2026 story: agentic AI security is the new perimeter. The pivot is real. But underneath the shared vocabulary there's a structural gap in what these platforms actually do. They watch. They don't stop.
Founding Team
Jun 8, 2026
3 min read
Anthropic Just Proved Our Thesis: AI-Powered Attacks Are Here, and Endpoint Security Needs a New Architecture
Yesterday, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing — a coalition built around a sobering realization: AI models can find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than any human attacker. This is the inflection point 1stProtect was built to address.
Founding Team
Apr 8, 2026
4 min read
The Compliance Paradox
Why a Clean Pentest Report Is a Dangerous Illusion
Founding Team
Jan 20, 2026
4 min read
The Browser is the New OS
It’s Leaking Your Soul
Founding Team
Jan 20, 2026
4 min read
The Log Paradox: Why Big Data Can’t Catch Fast AI
AI Analytics creates faster autopsies. It does not create survival.
Founding Team
Dec 28, 2025
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