• The Screenshot Problem: Where Encryption Stops Helping

    The Screenshot Problem: Where Encryption Stops Helping

    Once sensitive information appears on a screen, who can capture it? Understanding the boundary between cryptographic protection and recipient behavior. You share a confidential document through an encrypted service. The recipient authenticates, opens the file, and reads it. Then they take a photograph of the screen. No encryption algorithm was broken. No password was…

  • You Revoked Access. But Did You Take the Data Back?

    You Revoked Access. But Did You Take the Data Back?

    A sharing link can be disabled in seconds. The information someone has already seen, downloaded, copied, or summarized may live much longer. A company shares a confidential financial report with an external consultant. The consultant reviews it, downloads a copy, and uses an AI assistant to summarize the main findings. A few weeks later,…

  • Your Files Can Carry Instructions. Should Your AI Obey Them?

    Your Files Can Carry Instructions. Should Your AI Obey Them?

    As AI agents read documents and take actions across our digital workplaces, a new security question emerges: when does useful content become an unauthorized instruction? A finance manager asks an AI assistant to summarize a supplier’s invoice. The assistant opens the document, identifies the total amount, and prepares a short summary. Hidden inside the…

  • A Secure Vault for the Human-Agent Workplace

    A Secure Vault for the Human-Agent Workplace

    When people and AI agents share information, security must govern who can access it, what they can do with it, and where it can go next. A project manager opens a confidential contract. An AI agent extracts the deadlines. Another compares the payment terms with previous agreements. A third prepares a supplier email. One…

  • The Hardest Part of Encryption Is Getting Your Data Back

    The Hardest Part of Encryption Is Getting Your Data Back

    Protecting information means keeping unauthorized people out while preserving a reliable way for the right people to get back in. Your laptop stops working. You replace it, sign in to your storage account, and find your files exactly where you left them. The folders are intact. The documents are available to download. Nothing appears…