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The beat
Brian Pandorf covers security for Wyre OpEd: agent safety, prompt injection, surveillance infrastructure, and the cost of running the systems everything else depends on.
This beat treats an AI agent as an access problem rather than a novelty. Credentials that outlive the person, integrations that used to be pipes you could audit, a model that does exactly what a stranger told it to: the failures here are rarely exotic, and they are almost never the model. Surveillance sits on the same beat because a licence plate reader is the same question with a camera on it, and because procurement turned out to be the lever that moved.
Essays
2 essays
- Twenty-Five MinutesUnit 42 took compromise to exfiltration in 25 minutes using AI. The speed gets quoted; what the agent did when a control actually worked matters more.
- Eighty-Four CasesAn estimated 24.1 billion pounds in UK benefits goes unclaimed and the finances assume it stays that way. A new paper documents 84 agentic flooding cases.