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Autonomous systems cannot scale on issued credentials. IAM for Autonomous Systems replaces issued tokens with derived, per-action, offline-verifiable authority.

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Traditional IAM issues credentials, a model built for humans that breaks at machine speed: broad tokens, big blast radii, and an issuer bottleneck on every action. This article introduces IAM for Autonomous Systems, where authority is derived, not issued. In AgentEnvelope, the action envelope (operation, resources, time window, limits) is the credential: each capability is derived cryptographically from a customer-held root and the canonical action description, verifiable offline with no issuance service in the loop. A second layer, legitimacy, lets governance deny actions that are still validly signed but contradicted by current evidence. The SDK and MCP server are open source (Apache 2.0), and the protocol is published as an IETF Internet Draft.

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Explore the safeguards and limitations of production security testing, from scoped scans and rate limits to monitoring and controlled validation.

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Production-safe security testing helps organizations identify real-world vulnerabilities in live environments without disrupting users or business operations, providing continuous security validation and a more accurate view of their security posture.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-coding-tip-037-stop-patching-blind.

Patch code that never had a test written for it, and every quick fix becomes tomorrow's outage

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Patch code that never had a test written for it, and every quick fix becomes tomorrow's outage

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SonicWall confirmed two SMA 1000 zero-days under active exploitation. Its own remediation guidance ends with resetting TOTP tokens. Here's why that matters.

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SonicWall disclosed two SMA 1000 flaws on September 1, both exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-83548, a pre-auth SSRF scoring CVSS 10.0, and CVE-2026-83549, an OS command injection. Chained, they reach unauthenticated RCE. The overlooked part is SonicWall's own guidance for a confirmed compromise — re-image, change all passwords, and reset TOTP tokens. A VPN gateway is an authentication store. A patch closes the code path; it cannot un-copy the seeds an intruder already took.