The Agentic Engineering Platform: You Have a Coding Agent. Now What?
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Original writing on Zero Trust, governed autonomy and the architecture between them. Lessons from designing, building and operating real systems.
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Zero TrustNetwork as a ServiceSecurity ArchitectureEnterprise Security
Integration is the Architecture: The Floor Under Zero Trust
North-South is the door. East-West is the hallways. Network as a Service is the floor they are both standing on - and, on the worst day, the net beneath them. The least glamorous layer in the stack is the most load-bearing.
Zero TrustMicrosegmentationSecurity ArchitectureAgentic AI
Integration is the Architecture: The Two Worlds of Microsegmentation
One camp secures the network you already have. The other decides the network should not exist unless you are allowed to see it. You would love to run both. Most enterprises will not.
Agentic AIZero TrustAI GovernanceSpec-Driven DevelopmentAgentic Coding
The Enterprise Coding Agent: From YOLO Mode to Zero Trust Governance
Spec-driven development paired with the right harness turns an autonomous coding agent into a production powerhouse. Drop that setup into a regulated enterprise without governance and the security team will shut it down in five minutes - and they would be right to do so. Here is the control plane that makes agentic coding safe at enterprise scale.
Agentic AISpec-Driven DevelopmentAgentic CodingSoftware Engineering
The Spec Grew Up: What Happened After 542 Lines Became a Product
Two months ago I published a 542-line spec and said 'the code is a side effect.' The spec is now 4,400 lines. The code is over 100,000 lines. Here's what happened when the spec stopped being a document and became the product.
Zero TrustSecurity ArchitectureEnterprise Security
5 Things About Zero Trust You Only Learn at Scale
Zero Trust was never just a security initiative. It was an architectural bet - and the companies that made it early are about to collect.
Zero TrustSecurity ArchitectureEnterprise Security
The Evaluation Nobody Publishes: What Analyst Reports Won't Tell You About Zero Trust
Everyone saw the architecture. Nobody saw the evaluation behind it. We read every major analyst report. Then built a framework that disagreed with all of them.
Agentic AISpec-Driven DevelopmentAgentic CodingSoftware Engineering
The Code is a Side Effect: Spec-Driven Development in the Coding Agent Era
Everyone's talking about AI writing code. Almost nobody's talking about why most of it ends up in the trash. ~70,000 lines of code later, I accidentally built my favorite development environment.
Zero TrustSecurity ArchitectureEnterprise Security
Integration is the Architecture: Zero Trust at National Scale (Part 1)
How do you bring Zero Trust to an organization that is older than the concept of a computer? Architecting the transition felt like changing the engines on a plane mid-flight - while that plane was carrying the entire population of a nation.
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The Great Decoupling Part II: From Designing the Loop to Running It
I put a small AI model in charge of my firewall. Then I hired a larger model to watch it. Not just to save time - but because humans are no longer fast enough to stop machine-led attacks.
Agentic AIAI GovernanceGraduated AutonomyZero TrustSecurity Architecture
The Great Decoupling: From Writing Code to Designing the Loop
Something is shifting in how we build and protect systems. The center of gravity is moving - from writing logic to managing systems that generate it. What hit development is about to hit security. Are you ready?
Zero TrustAI SecuritySecurity Architecture
The Quiet Shift: From Enforcing Rules to Enforcing Baselines
The era of the static security rule is ending. As modern organisations roll out new infrastructure on edge platforms, a pattern is emerging that deserves more attention: legacy security components are getting smarter.
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