·3 min read
Cybersecurity Services for Businesses: A Guide to Knowing Where to Start
A map of cybersecurity services for businesses: assessment, penetration testing, compliance and monitoring, and how to sequence them.
Cybersecurity
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Pentesting, application and AI agent security, regulation and risk management: concrete practices to protect critical systems.
24 articles
·5 min read
Guatemala's Congress Passed Its Cybersecurity Framework Law: What It Means for Those of Us Who Build Technology
Guatemala's Congress passed its Cybersecurity Framework Law (Decreto 26-2026), a process still underway. Our builders' take after the trade mission.
Cybersecurity
·6 min read
AI agents that code: can a team of agents replace the development process?
A team of AI agents can write, review and test code end to end. How an autonomous dev team works in practice.
AI AgentsCybersecurityCustom Software
·6 min read
Homomorphic encryption: how does AI learn from data that stays encrypted?
Banks and government agencies can use AI on sensitive data while keeping it encrypted throughout the process. How homomorphic encryption works when applied to AI.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityGovTechFintech
·5 min read
AI agent security: the attack surface growing faster than the controls
Adding AI agents to your operations opens a new attack surface. What it means to scan these systems and fix what the scans find.
AI AgentsCybersecurity
·5 min read
Cybersecurity compliance: does it make sense to audit one standard at a time?
Every security standard demands its own audit process. How to automate regulatory compliance without repeating the same work for each framework.
Cybersecurity
·7 min read
Digital transformation for utilities: modernizing energy without replacing the core
A practical guide for utilities and energy companies: how to integrate SCADA, IoT, AI, tokenization, and cybersecurity to modernize operations without replacing critical systems.
AI & Machine LearningBlockchain & Web3CybersecurityCustom SoftwareEnergy & Utilities
·12 min read
Why Vulnerability Scanners Don't Replace a Pentest — and How AI Changes the Equation
Scanners like Nuclei and ZAP detect known CVEs but miss the vulnerabilities that actually get companies breached: IDOR, privilege escalation, race conditions, and business logic flaws. This article explains why, shows how xNinja's results vary per target in an authenticated benchmark, and introduces a third option: AI-driven pentesting that complements scanners and manual tests.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
·18 min read
OpenClaw Security Anatomy: What AiSec's 35 Agents Found in the World's Most Popular AI Agent
We ran AiSec — our open-source AI security framework with 35 specialized agents — against OpenClaw, the most popular AI agent on GitHub (191K stars). In 4 minutes and 12 seconds, it found 63 vulnerabilities mapped to 8 security frameworks. Here is the full technical breakdown.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
·14 min read
From OpenClaw to Agentor: Building Secure AI Agents in Rust
How a security audit of an open-source AI agents framework revealed Python's limits and led us to build Agentor -- a Rust-based framework optimized for code generation.
AI AgentsAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
·10 min read
LLM Security: Defending Against Prompt Injection Attacks
A technical deep dive into prompt injection, indirect injection, jailbreaking, and data exfiltration attacks on large language models — with practical, layered defense strategies for teams building production AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
·11 min read
Cybersecurity for Healthcare: Protecting Patient Data in the Age of Connected Medicine
A comprehensive guide to healthcare cybersecurity — from the evolving threat landscape and HIPAA/GDPR compliance to ransomware defense, zero-trust architecture, and building a security-first culture in medical organizations.
Cybersecurity
·10 min read
Zero Trust Architecture: A Practical Implementation Guide
A comprehensive implementation guide for Zero Trust Architecture — from understanding why perimeter security fails to deploying identity-centric security, micro-segmentation, and continuous verification across your organization, following the NIST 800-207 framework.
Cybersecurity
·10 min read
Building DevSecOps Pipelines for Blockchain Projects
How to design and implement a DevSecOps pipeline purpose-built for blockchain development — covering smart contract static analysis, automated audit pipelines, secrets management, deployment automation, and post-deployment monitoring.
Blockchain & Web3CybersecurityCustom Software
·11 min read
Digital Identity Systems for E-Government: The Blockchain Approach
How self-sovereign identity and blockchain-based citizen IDs are transforming public sector services — enabling privacy-preserving verification, reducing fraud, and modernizing government infrastructure.
Blockchain & Web3CybersecurityGovTech
·10 min read
Offensive AI vs Defensive AI: The Cybersecurity Battleground
How AI is transforming both sides of cybersecurity -- from AI-powered phishing and automated exploits to intelligent threat detection and incident response.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
·9 min read
Blockchain Security Audit Checklist for DeFi Projects
A comprehensive security audit checklist for DeFi smart contracts and protocols. Common vulnerabilities, testing methodologies, and best practices for blockchain security.
Blockchain & Web3Cybersecurity
·4 min read
From Security to Speed: New Priorities with Technology Providers
The evolution of priorities when evaluating technology providers: from security as the #1 factor in 2024 to speed in 2025, and toward deep business understanding as the future differentiating attribute.
CybersecurityStrategy & management
·8 min read
How We Got ISO 27001 Certified — And What It Means for Our Clients
Xcapit's journey to ISO/IEC 27001 certification: why we pursued it, what the process involved, and how our clients benefit from independently verified information security.
Cybersecurity
·12 min read
Penetration Testing Checklist for Fintech Applications
A comprehensive penetration testing checklist for fintech and financial applications. Covers authentication, API security, payment flows, data protection, infrastructure, and mobile testing with PCI DSS and SOC 2 compliance requirements.
CybersecurityFintech
·10 min read
Threat Modeling for Web3: Adapting OWASP to dApps
How to adapt OWASP STRIDE threat modeling for decentralized applications. Covers Web3-specific threats, dApp attack surfaces, and adapted risk scoring.
Blockchain & Web3Cybersecurity
·12 min read
Smart Contract Security: 10 Common Vulnerabilities and How to Prevent Them
Explore the 10 most common smart contract vulnerabilities including reentrancy attacks, flash loan exploits, and oracle manipulation. Learn prevention strategies and security best practices to protect your blockchain applications.
Blockchain & Web3Cybersecurity
·10 min read
Solidity Security Patterns We Apply in Every Audit
Proven Solidity security patterns we apply in every smart contract audit: checks-effects-interactions, proxy safety, oracle hardening, and formal verification.
Blockchain & Web3Cybersecurity
·10 min read
Cross-Chain Interoperability: Bridges, Standards, and Risks
Analyzing cross-chain bridge architectures, the billion-dollar security graveyard, emerging interoperability standards, and practical enterprise guidance.
Blockchain & Web3Cybersecurity
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XNinja: Automated Penetration Testing & Compliance Platform for Enterprises and SMEs
How Xcapit Labs built XNinja, a managed multi-tenant SaaS for automated penetration testing in which AI agents orchestrate a multi-phase DAG execution engine — including exploit verification, authentication testing, OWASP Top 10 coverage, and supply chain scanning — with compliance mapping to 10 frameworks, 6 of them with a full workflow (ISO 27001, NIS2, BSI IT-Grundschutz, GDPR/DSGVO, TISAX, SOC 2). Trilingual reports in English, Spanish, and German.
AiSec: AI Agent Security Analysis Framework
How Xcapit Labs built a comprehensive security analysis framework for AI agents with 35 specialized agents, 250+ detectors, and auto-remediation — validated through the OpenClaw audit that found 4.2x more vulnerabilities than traditional scanners.
Xcapit Privacy: Machine Learning Without Seeing Your Data
How Xcapit Labs built a platform that enables collaborative machine learning on fully encrypted data using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), so organizations can train AI models together without ever exposing their sensitive information.