Kevin Harbauer
Transformation & Growth Executive
I have spent more than 20 years leading product, engineering, and security teams in environments where delivering results was not optional. CTO, CISO, and board advisor across PE-backed software, healthcare, and legal services. I write here about the work that is actually hard — technology leadership, AI adoption, security, and building organizations that execute.
Recent Articles
Your Agent Pipeline Isn't a Pipeline
Platforms made it easy to build a first agent. Nobody has solved how to run one in production with the same discipline we apply to software.
Your Agents Are Software. Treat Them Like It.
Every organization has change management discipline for software. Few apply it to AI agents. That gap is showing up in audits and due diligence.
Your Phishing Training Doesn't Cover This
Your phishing training doesn't cover this new attack surface. It looks like productivity. And your security posture was never built to catch it.
AI Watching AI
At scale, humans can't review every agent interaction. The case for guardian agents — and why AI overseeing AI is uncomfortable but probably inevitable.
Time to Hello World
Vibe coding made getting to a first API call table stakes. The harder question: was your documentation written for the agent reading it for a user?
Built Secure, Deployed Dangerous
An agent built correctly can still drift into dangerous territory through misconfiguration. Most organizations have no way to detect it until something breaks.