Tag Archives: Security

The Agentic AI Playbook, Part 7 of 7: Anti-Patterns – What to Fix Before You Blame the Tool

Every anti-pattern in this post felt reasonable in the moment. Nobody skips the spec because they’re lazy — they skip it because the deadline is close and the AI is right there waiting. The failures that follow are predictable. Here’s how to recognise and prevent them.

Encrypting an ASP.NET web application connection strings by directory

To encrypt an ASP.NET application’s connection strings?by the path of the application, navigate to the .NET framework folder ?%windows%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber Open the command prompt as administrator and point to the .Net directory and run the command ASPNET_REGIIS -pef “connectionStrings” “C:\Inetpub\<Application Folder>” (Point to the directory not the web.config file) If successful the following should be displayed.