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Shadow AI, compliance, spend and building a system of record for enterprise AI.

Alignment Is Not Governance

Frontier labs keep improving model alignment, yet enterprise AI governance keeps getting harder. A technical look at why governance lives in systems, not weights.

Satya Vegulla · 10 min read

The Mercor/LiteLLM Breach: Why AI Supply Chain Attacks Are the New Normal

Mercor breached via compromised LiteLLM open-source project. AI supply chains are now attack vectors. How to detect tool tampering before it hits your org.

Satya Vegulla · 8 min read

The Delve Scandal: $300M in Fake Compliance — and What It Means for AI Governance

Delve accused of fabricating SOC 2 reports for 1,000+ customers. The $300M scandal proves checkbox compliance is dead. What real AI governance looks like.

Satya Vegulla · 9 min read

Shadow AI Breaches Cost $4.63 Million — the IBM Math (2025 edition)

IBM's 2025 report: shadow AI breaches cost $4.63M average — $670K more than standard incidents, with 20% of breaches involving shadow AI. The ROI math for governance. (IBM's 2026 edition has since raised both figures.)

Satya Vegulla · 7 min read

MCP Server Security: The OWASP Top 10 Your Security Team Hasn't Read Yet

OWASP published the MCP Top 10: tool poisoning, prompt injection, context spoofing, zero built-in auth. If your devs use AI coding tools, read this now.

Satya Vegulla · 9 min read

RSAC 2026: Every Vendor Wants to Govern AI Agents. Here's What's Actually Shipping.

Microsoft Purview, CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR, Cisco DefenseClaw — dozens of AI governance announcements at RSAC. We separate what ships from conference slides.

Satya Vegulla · 8 min read

OpenClaw: 135,000 Exposed AI Agents, 341 Malicious Skills, Zero Governance

OpenClaw: 135K GitHub stars to security crisis in weeks. CVE-2026-25253, 341 malicious skills, 21K exposed instances. What your security team must do now.

Satya Vegulla · 10 min read

Microsoft Edge's New Shadow AI Controls — and Why They're Not Enough

Edge Purview DLP blocks AI prompts in real time. But Edge is 11% of desktop browsing (StatCounter, July 2026), and coding assistants, CLI tools and MCP servers never touch a browser at all. Full governance requires more.

Satya Vegulla · 7 min read

How to Build an AI Acceptable Use Policy That Employees Actually Follow

Only 38% of organizations have a formal, comprehensive AI policy (ISACA 2026 AI Pulse Poll). Here's the template: three-tier classification, monitor-coach-enforce model, and EU AI Act alignment built in.

Satya Vegulla · 12 min read

The CISO's Guide to Building an AI Asset Inventory (Before Auditors Ask for One)

Auditors now ask which AI systems you run, and almost nobody can answer completely. Three discovery channels and a risk scoring framework for continuous AI inventory.

Satya Vegulla · 14 min read

Agentic AI Is Your Next Shadow AI Crisis — Here's How to Prepare

48% of security professionals rank agentic AI as 2026's top attack vector (Dark Reading reader poll, 2026). The 5-control framework to secure AI agents — before they become your biggest blind spot.

Satya Vegulla · 12 min read

EU AI Act Compliance for Security Teams: What Actually Changes in August 2026

EU AI Act high-risk obligations land Aug 2. Here's the deployer checklist — mapped to concrete actions your security team can take this quarter.

Satya Vegulla · 15 min read

The AI Compliance Checklist Every Security Team Needs in 2026

EU AI Act hits Aug 2, California AI rules are live, SOC 2 added AI controls. The step-by-step checklist your security team needs — with deadline mapping.

Satya Vegulla · 6 min read

Your Company Has a Shadow AI Problem. Yes, Yours.

The average organization logs 223 GenAI data policy violations a month (Netskope Cloud and Threat Report, 2026). Zero visibility. Learn why blocking fails and what actually works — the 3-pillar governance framework.

Satya Vegulla · 8 min read

Your Company Is Spending More on AI Than You Think

The enterprise ChatGPT invoice is not the number. Individual subscriptions, API spend inside engineering budgets and free tiers that quietly upgraded never reach it — see costs across 297 providers and 9,000+ models in one dashboard.

Satya Vegulla · 5 min read

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