Insecure Agents

Blocking Bad Packages at the Network Level: Ahmad Nassri (Socket) on Controlling What an Agent Sees

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In a world where agents are chaining vulnerabilities together to escape sandboxes, simply blocking bad packages is not enough. Ahmad Nassri, CTO of Socket and previously CTO of npm, joins us live at Black Hat to explain what happens when you deny a coding agent a package: it becomes a risk if the agent thinks it can help it complete its goal later.

Socket has watched agents blocked from an…