Building Magatama: The Architecture Decisions That Hurt
Magatama is a unified security platform with six pillars. The architecture looks clean now. Three decisions made it painful to get here — two I'd make again, one I'd reverse.
Magatama is a unified security platform with six pillars. The architecture looks clean now. Three decisions made it painful to get here — two I'd make again, one I'd reverse.
No-Travel-Day. The week Magatama stopped being a collection of security tools and became a platform. What happens inside an ADHD brain when 18 months of fragmented work suddenly makes sense.
Vendor solutions for LLM security cost $50,000/year and scan for yesterday's attacks. The open source stack is fragmented but works. Here's what actually exists — and what's still missing.
Model Context Protocol gives AI systems tool access. It also creates a new attack surface: tool poisoning, indirect prompt injection, and privilege escalation through tool chaining. Almost nobody is scanning for it.
License choice is a product decision, not just a legal formality. Apache 2.0 over MIT isn't paranoia — it's the patent protection clause, which matters specifically for security software.
In this post, I explore the reality of warfare targeting data centers and critical infrastructure, a shift that has been long predicted but is now becoming a harsh reality.
We validated who is allowed to announce a prefix. We never validated how it gets there.
I almost pushed AWS credentials to GitHub. Twice. Then I built a system that makes it impossible.
500+ detection patterns. 10-layer pipeline. Kill chain mapping. And it learns from every attack it sees.