Zoe Braiterman

#cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence

Many thanks to those of you who joined me for this evening’s ⁦@PurIntl⁩ #ConsciouslySecureLeadership Series X Space discussion about API sprawl risks and defenses. A few key takeaways from the discussion:

👉It is important that enterprises that now operate tens of thousands of APIs maintain proper documentation and consistent governance. Individual users can also track APIs they create using secure (encrypted) storage that cannot be accessed to anyone who does not need it. 🔐

👉It is easy to lose track of which APIs we’re using, which may result in accidental mismanagement of sensitive information. This issue is commonly referred to as “API sprawl”.🚨

👉We are using application programming interfaces (APIs) when we connected various cloud services. AI copilots and low‑code tools have also dramatically lowered the barrier to API creation. 🤖

@ShugaAyomi It was wonderful having you, @ShugaAyomi! Have a great night. Looking forward to catching up with you soon.

@zbraiterman Nice conversation So sorry, I gtg… it’s late here See you some other time

It’s easy to think Bitcoin is a casino. Watch the charts, tune out the rest. That’s lazy. Here’s the scene nobody scripted. Imagine you wake up one morning and the world says you can’t use global banks anymore. Your country’s currency is paper that gets lighter every week. Your options are: barter, buy foreign notes if you can, or find something that actually keeps value. Iran chose the last. They started mining Bitcoin not as a hobby but as plumbing — a way to get around financial isolation. Here’s the brutal math: they can mine a coin for about $1,320. In the U.S. it costs $77k–$87k. Bitcoin sits at $66k. Do the mental gymnastics and you’ll see why Iran’s miners can make huge margins while U.S. miners scramble. But it’s not only about profit. When the rial lost 96% of its value, people needed a place to park their life savings. Crypto filled that role. Iran’s crypto economy hit $7.8 billion in 2025 — not a hobby; an economy. Then there’s resilience. China pulled half the world’s hash rate in 2021 and Bitcoin didn’t blink. Hash rate moved. Miners packed up. The network kept producing blocks. That’s not luck. That’s design. So stop asking whether Bitcoin is moral or immoral. Start asking whether we can build systems that keep working when politics fails. Because when the rails go down, people need plumbing. Bitcoin, in certain places, is that plumbing.#Bitcoin #Crypto #Geopolitics #BitcoinMining #Sanctions Mining geography & the 2021 China crash coindesk.com (search: “China bitcoin mining ban 2021 hashrate drops 50%”) Journalistic contemporaneous reporting on the 2021 event and network recovery. bitcoinminingcouncil.com (and their blog.chainalysis.com or chainalysis.com/reports coindesk.com theblock.co tradingeconomics.com/iran/currency imf.org & data.worldbank.org BBC / Reuters explainers on Iran’s currency crisis bbc.com and reuters.com (search: “Iran rial depreciation 96%”) Accessible news pieces that summarize the scale of rial depreciation and its effect on ordinary savers. Bitcoin price reference CoinMarketCap — Bitcoin (historical price snapshots, charts) coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bit… Use this to cite the BTC price at a specific date/time (e.g., ~$66k).

A friendly reminder to join me now for this week’s ⁦@PurIntl⁩ #ConsciouslySecureLeadership Series X Space discussion about  API sprawl risks and defenses. 🔗 x.com/zbraiterman/st… #cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence

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👉It is important, from a security perspective, to implement access controls for agents, treating them as first-class identities with roles, scopes, and revocation, and enforcing least privilege at the tool, data, and action level. 🔐 #cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence

Many thanks to those of you who joined me for this evening’s ⁦@PurIntl⁩ #ConsciouslySecureLeadership X Space discussion about excessive agency risks in large language models. A few key takeaways from the discussion:

👉One way that agents gain agency is LLMs gain agency through use of tools, such as APIs, databases and code execution. “Excessive agency” may occur when access to these tools is not properly managed. 🚨

👉”Agency”, in the context of AI agents, refers to a software system's capacity to act independently, make decisions, and achieve specific goals or multi-step tasks without human intervention. 🤖