AUTHOR

Liran Tal

Liran Tal is an AI Security researcher and Head of Developer Relations at Snyk. His recent work focuses on agentic security: he worked on the ToxicSkills research exposing malware and prompt injection across thousands of AI agent skills, publishes hands-on practices for securing MCP servers, and reports CVEs across vulnerable AI frameworks. Liran designs guardrails that make AI-native development safer in practice, covering tool poisoning, command-execution pitfalls, and secure defaults for agentic tools. A longstanding Node.js developer and secure-coding expert, he has authored books on Node.js security and is recognized as a GitHub Star and OpenJS Foundation JavaScriptLandia "Pathfinder for Security."