Galeal Zino

What you will learn:

1. A reproducible pattern for making any MCP server or LLM endpoint unreachable until an authenticated, authorized identity connects, built entirely on open-source tooling you can pull the same day. 2. A working mental model for why moving authorization before reachability shrinks the attack surface that scanners, tool-poisoning attacks, and stolen API keys all depend on. 3. The failure mode that matters: why a revoked identity killing a call for lack of a path is architecturally different from a rejected credential, and why that difference changes the exploitation math. 4. An honest map of the trade-offs — what going dark defends against (exposure, discovery, lateral movement, secret sprawl), what it does not (a compromised authorized agent, prompt injection inside an authorized session), and where the added plumbing costs you. 5. The war-story version: what actually broke while building the demo, and what those failures taught me about the pattern's real edges.