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Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson

Director, The Commonlight Initiative

Michael directs TCI's strategic initiatives, with deep expertise in digital forensics infrastructure, OSINT methodology, and evidence preservation architecture. He oversees the organization's research agenda and client engagements.

Articles by Michael Peterson(3)

Prompt Injection as a Redaction Bypass

Documents processed through LLM redaction pipelines can contain adversarial text that manipulates the model into preserving sensitive information. This attack vector is unique to AI-powered redaction.

·7 min

Self-Hosted Agent Infrastructure: Architecture for Isolated Operations

Deploying autonomous AI agents on self-hosted infrastructure requires careful architecture — balancing agent autonomy with operational security, audit requirements, and physical isolation constraints.

·9 min

The Command Line as Investigation Platform

Modern agentic CLI tools are transforming the terminal from a simple command executor into a full investigation platform — with planning, tool orchestration, and autonomous decision-making built in.

·8 min

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