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Emergency stop button with the text “What Is an AI Kill Switch?” and the Aembit logo.

What Is an AI Kill Switch? Where It Lives Decides Whether It Works

Everyone wants a kill switch for AI agents, but what actually stops when someone flips it?
Apurva Davé
Apurva Davé
Oct 2026
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8 min read
Personal AI Agents: 10-Question Security Checklist, with connected icons representing a user, an AI agent, documents, cloud services, and a database.

10 Questions to Ask Before Deploying Personal or Desktop AI Agents

How to give autonomous agents useful access while preserving identity, accountability, and control.
Ashur Kanoon
Ashur Kanoon
Oct 2026
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8 min read
Identity options for securing enterprise AI agents

AI Agent Identity: Human, Nonhuman, or Both?

AI agents don’t neatly fit into your IAM chart. They switch roles, borrow authority, and rewrite what identity means at runtime. Here’s what that means for you.
Apurva Davé
Apurva Davé
Oct 2026
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7 min read
Office team working around laptops, overlaid with the headline “Ranking the Top PAM Vendors & Alternatives (2026).”

The Top 7 PAM Vendors and Alternatives in 2026

PAM is changing as AI agents, workloads and machine identities take on more privileged access.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Oct 2026
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6 min read
Aembit interface showing a Meta Muse client workload configured with OAuth redirect settings and MCP authorization controls.

Aembit Launches Identity and Access Security Controls for Meta Muse

Personal AI agents like Meta Muse will be coming to work with employees. Aembit enforces how they access enterprise systems.
Ashur Kanoon
Ashur Kanoon
Oct 2026
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5 min read
Hands exchanging keys beneath the text “Understanding Token Exchange for AI Agents."

What is Token Exchange, and Why Does AI Need it?

Víctor Jiménez
Víctor Jiménez
Sep 2026
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8 min read
Two professionals reviewing a secrets management dashboard, with text reading “Ranking the Top Secrets Managers & Alternatives (2026).

Ranking the Top Secrets Management Tools and Alternatives in 2026

Secrets managers still matter. But AI agents and workloads are changing when stored credentials make sense.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Sep 2026
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5 min read
A swarm of futuristic AI humanoids rushes a glowing security barrier at the entrance to a brightly lit data center, visually representing agents pushing past authorization controls.

Barbarians at the Gate: The Authorization Assumption That Agents Are Tearing Down

Broad credentials made sense when fixed application logic stood between users and actions, but AI agents have changed that equation.
Apurva Davé
Apurva Davé
Sep 2026
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4 min read
Graphic for Part 5 of Aembit’s MCP 2026-07-28 series, titled “The Agent Interoperability Layer,” with a network diagram of connected components in the background.

MCP as an Application Protocol: The Emerging Agent Interoperability Layer

What began as a way for agents to call tools is expanding into infrastructure for longer-running, governed interactions across enterprise systems.
Ashur Kanoon
Ashur Kanoon
Sep 2026
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5 min read
Graphic comparing impersonation vs. delegation, with human and AI agent identity cards representing different ways an actor can access resources on behalf of a user.

Impersonation vs. Delegation: Getting On-Behalf-Of Tokens Right

When one identity acts for another, the token model determines what downstream systems can actually see, trust, and audit.
Víctor Jiménez
Víctor Jiménez
Sep 2026
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7 min read
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