AI Cyber Defense
Treat evidence as data and enforce action permissions in application code. Give the assistant read access by default and separate recommendations from execution.
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AI Cyber Defense
Present the exact target and effect for high-impact actions and bind approval to immutable arguments. Any material argument change must invalidate the prior approval.
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AI Cyber Defense
Apply permission filtering before content reaches the model and recheck access when sources change. Keep caches partitioned by the relevant authorization context.
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AI Cyber Defense
Use constrained query interfaces, read-only database roles and resource limits. Validate allowed operations with a suitable parser or fixed query templates rather than text matching alone.
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AI Cyber Defense
Expose narrow typed tools backed by fixed executables or APIs. Keep user and model text as arguments only where validated, and avoid general shell access.
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AI Cyber Defense
Route fetch and send operations through an egress-enforcing service with narrow destinations and scoped identity. Restrict redirects and internal addresses for external fetch tools.
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AI Cyber Defense
Require trusted ingestion paths for operational runbooks and distinguish unreviewed material in retrieval. Promote revisions only after the relevant owner approves their operational content.
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AI Cyber Defense
Store only necessary facts with provenance and explicit scope. Apply access checks and expiry outside the model, and require review before promoting evidence into durable operational guidance.
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AI Cyber Defense
Use approved artifact sources and pinned revisions, and review extension permissions independently from model quality. Stage updates with behavior and access-boundary checks.
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AI Cyber Defense
Require evidence-linked summaries and a human review of high-impact conclusions. Distinguish an observed event, an inference and a missing record in the report format.
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AI Cyber Defense
Enforce budgets atomically in the orchestrator and stop or escalate at a defined boundary. Keep retries bounded and avoid restarting the entire task after a partial success.
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AI Cyber Defense
Use supported idempotent operations or a transactional action ledger and reconcile uncertain outcomes before retrying. Bind each operation to a specific authorized target state.
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