Nik Kale

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Nik Kale is a principal engineer specializing in enterprise AI platforms and security. He is a contributor to the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) through OASIS and the IETF OAuth working group, and serves on the program committee for ACM CCS 2026 and IEEE S&P SAGAI.

Supply chain attack — CleoP made with Midjourney

AI tool poisoning exposes a major flaw in enterprise agent security

AI agents choose tools from shared registries by matching natural-language descriptions. But no human is verifying whether those descriptions are true.

Nik Kale

May 10, 2026