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Akash MandalDeep technical notes on eBPF data security, AI-agent runtime security, protocol intelligence, IAM attribution, and production database monitoring.
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LLM Security Triage with Deterministic Guardrails
TL;DR
- Aurva’s runtime layer emits signals: anomalies, service-to-service risk, permission deltas. None of them arrive as a narrative. Triage has to turn them into something a security engineer can act on, and that interpretation is...
The Attribution Graph Is Only as Good as Its Evidence
An attribution graph is a presentation layer. What makes it trustworthy is the evidence each node and edge is built from.
TL;DR
- Identity attribution for AI agents is a checkbox feature now. Most tools can draw the same graph...
Runtime Identity Attribution with eBPF, IAM, and CloudTrail
“What was allowed?” vs. “What actually happened?”
A common postmortem pattern:
The IAM policy said the service could read the bucket. The audit log confirmed an API call to read the bucket. Nobody could tell me which container, on wh...
From Packets to Agent Chains: eBPF for AI Runtime Security
When every individual permission is valid, risk hides in the chain. eBPF sees the full picture, in real time.
TL;DR
- Problem: AI agents chain multiple tools autonomously. Each action is authorized individually, but workflow combinat...
eBPF Gives You Packets. Here's How We Turn Them Into Security Insights
TLDR: eBPF captures raw network packets at kernel level, but raw packets aren’t useful for data security. We built a protocol intelligence layer using Finite State Machines (FSMs) to parse 24+ database wire protocols (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mon...
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Co-founder & Chief Architect at Aurva. Building security infrastructure for data visibility. Writing about systems engineering, eBPF, distributed systems, and the technical challenges of building security tools at scale.
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