Self-Protecting Files for the Agentic Era

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We've been building Honeycake, a file-native security platform that embeds encryption, access policies, and audit trails directly into files.The thesis: AI Agents are moving data at machine speed across workflows, platforms, and organizations, often without explicit human approval. Conventional security protects locations (firewalls, IAM, DLP), but once an Agent copies a file somewhere new, those controls don't follow. The file is unprotected.Our approach is a new file primitive called .cake. Every .cake file carries quantum-resistant encryption, section-level access controls (down to individual paragraphs within a document), and tamper-evident audit logging as intrinsic properties. All encr

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