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# Access Control

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 [![Cover card titled The Exit, subtitled Badge returned. Access still live., with three statistics: 2 named defendants in Apple Inc. v. Liu, 11 additional former employees named in the filing, and reasonable measures as the statutory test for a trade secret](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/insider-threat-offboarding-controls-cover.png)

AI Security • Aug 5, 2026

### Insider Threat Offboarding Controls: The Apple v. OpenAI Lesson

Insider threat offboarding controls, read through Apple v. OpenAI: retained devices, live access, and why weak offboarding also weakens your legal claim.

11 min read

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 [![Cover card titled The Gate, subtitled Thousands of tickets. One agent., with three statistics: 4 risk tiers, Cloudflare's MCP portal growing 13 to 27 servers, and tool annotations marked untrusted per the MCP spec](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/secure-mcp-write-tools-writeguard-cover.png)

AI Security • Aug 5, 2026

### How to Secure MCP Write Tools: Cloudflare's WriteGuard Lesson

How to secure MCP write tools: the spec puts confirmation on the client — the one layer you don't control. Cloudflare's WriteGuard moves the gate server-side.

11 min read

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