Kevin Swaney

Cybersecurity Engineer

Kevin Swaney is a cybersecurity engineer with 17 years in information security. His work centers on securing the tools people actually use: AI assistants, identity and access, and the governance that keeps both safe.

Connect on LinkedIn

About

I have spent 17 years in information security, most of it in security engineering and architecture. These days my focus is the security of AI tools in the workplace: controlled intake, data guardrails, identity for human and non-human accounts, and baselines that let people get the benefit without the exposure.

This site collects short technical notes on AI security, access control, and the fundamentals that still stop most incidents. For anything beyond that, LinkedIn is the best way to reach me.

Notes

Controlled intake beats shadow AI People will use the tools that help them work. The security job is to make the approved path clear, fast, and safer than the workaround.
Identity is the control plane for AI agents Every agent needs an owner, a scope, a lifetime, and logs. If it can act, it needs identity discipline.
Keep less data Data you no longer keep cannot be breached or pasted into the wrong tool. Retention is a security control.