BREACH INTELLIGENCE SECURITY ARCHITECTURE AI RISK
THE ARCHITECTURE BRIEF
Built the defences. Decodes the failures.
Dwight Samuels, Principal Enterprise Security Architect. 20 years designing the systems regulated enterprises depend on. Now I break down the ones that failed, before the post-mortem gets sanitised.
20 years in security architecture · TOGAF · CCSP · SABSA · MSc Information Security

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WEEKLYBREACH BREAKDOWNS
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What I do
The Latest Breakdowns
Every week: a real breach, decoded before the post-mortem gets sanitised, paired with the framework that would have caught it.
- OWASP LLM07:2023-24 (Insecure Plugin Design): the tool your agent trusted on day one is not the tool it is calling today, and nothing in between checked.
- A university instructor accused a student of AI cheating three times.
- The Architecture Brief is adding a paid tier. Here is exactly what stays open, what is new, and why the weekly breach post-mortem will never sit behind a wall.
If your last design review found nothing wrong, nobody looked hard enough.
If it’s been longer than 12 months since your last one, the question isn’t if there’s a gap. It’s how big.