Tyrah Hicks
Marketing Communications Specialist, C1.ai
Tyrah Hicks is a Marketing Communications Specialist at C1.ai, writing explainers on the protocols behind enterprise access, including SAML, OAuth, and MCP authorization.
5 articles by Tyrah Hicks
BlogAn AI Agent Isn't an Employee and It Isn't Software. That's the Whole Problem.
Software is deterministic and trustable. Humans are unpredictable but trustable. AI agents are neither, and they're already in production. C1.ai CEO Alex Bovee on what a trust model for a non-trustable actor looks like.
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You Can't Govern the AI Agents You Can't Find
AI agents are already running in your environment, authenticating like service accounts and multiplying faster than any review cycle. How to find them and assign ownership that survives turnover.
BlogSAML vs OAuth: Key Differences and When to Use Each
SAML vs OAuth: how each protocol works, where SAML 2.0 and OAuth 2.0 fit, and how to choose the right one for SSO, APIs, and AI agents.
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MCP Authorization: Controlling What AI Agents Can Access
Learn how the MCP authorization spec uses OAuth 2.1 to control what AI agents can access, and where identity governance closes the gaps it leaves open.
BlogWhy an MCP Gateway Is Not Governance
C1.ai Field CISO Kevin Paige and SACR analyst Paul Webber on why routing agent traffic through an MCP gateway isn't the same as governing what agents are entitled to do — and what good agent governance actually requires.