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Ericka Chickowski

  • Business and Technology Writer, Freelance
  • Contributing Editor and Board of Advisors Member, DevOps.com
Satellite Beach
As seen in: DevOps.com, Entrepreneur, SearchBusinessAnalytics, SearchContentManagement, TechTarget, The Christian Science Monitor, CSO, Dark Reading, Data Center Knowledge, NewsBreak, Computer Sweden and
Covers:  Digital innovation, cybersecurity, and digital risk
Tech journalist and freelance business writer. Covering where biz meets tech: cybersecurity, DevOps & digital transformation.

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Agentic AI permissions: A core problem — but not the only one

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By Ericka Chickowski
| ReversingLabs
Agent permissions, not the prompt, are the real security boundary — coding agents that can touch repos, shells, and production systems create risk if their access isn't tightly scoped. Overpermissioning compounds silently — agents typically inherit their user's full access, and that spreads further when agents spawn sub-agents, breaking traceability back to the authorizing human.
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How an Emerging Industrial Protocol Family Could Put OT at Risk

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By Ericka Chickowski
| Dark Reading Verified
In operational technology (OT) networking, the reliability and availability of industrial processes trumps everything, even cybersecurity. But what happens when an OT networking protocol designed to ensure speedy availability of safety-critical communications also embeds a security weakness into the architecture? Without a full slate of cyber controls folded in, that reliability mechanism could itself become a vehicle for the kinds of industrial failures it's supposed to help prevent.
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When AppSec Scanners Become a Supply Chain Attack Vector

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By Ericka Chickowski
| Dark Reading Verified
Specialized application security scanning tools embedded in the development pipeline can do wonders to harden code and bolster software supply chain security. But if engineering teams aren't careful, these security scanners can also become a gateway for attacks deep in the supply chain.
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