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Infrastructure

Running a Local LLM with Ollama: A Practical Starting Point

Plan a private inference environment, test the API and add sensible boundaries before connecting agents and tools.

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AI Security

Building a Local AI Agent Security Lab

A practical blueprint for assembling local inference, agents, identity and tool controls in one reproducible environment.

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Automation

Building an AI-Powered Skills Discovery Workflow

A reference design for searching skill profiles, matching certifications and keeping a human in charge of screening decisions.

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AI Security

MCP Tool Security: A Practical Threat Model

Understand why tool descriptions, runtime authorization and credential boundaries matter in agentic systems.

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AI Security

An AI Agent Security Checklist for New Projects

A compact framework to review agent identities, authorization, prompt-injection exposure and monitoring before release.

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Automation

Designing a SOC Automation Pipeline with n8n

Connect detection events, threat intelligence and an analyst approval step to reduce repetitive security work.

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