Adversarial testing, secure-by-design engineering, and autonomous security products for agent-native security teams and products.
Autopoiesis — from the Greek autos (self) and poiesis (creation) — is how biologists Maturana and Varela defined life itself: a system that continuously produces and repairs the components that keep it alive, inside a boundary it makes for itself. We believe cybersecurity has to work the same way.
A living system endures by continuously adapting to its environment without losing what makes it itself. Security for autonomous systems has to do the same — sensing, learning from, and adapting to a threat landscape that shifts faster than any release cycle, rather than standing behind a fixed perimeter.
A cell produces a membrane that separates self from non-self and keeps its internal processes coherent. Agentic systems need the same: explicit trust boundaries, least privilege, and sandboxing — so a single compromise stays contained and the blast radius is bounded by design.
Life persists by constantly regenerating its own components. Security is not a one-off audit but a self-sustaining loop — test, learn, harden, and regenerate defences continuously, as the system and its adversaries co-evolve.
We build security products and work directly with the businesses shipping agentic systems — from hands-on red teaming and secure engineering to deployable capability your own cybersecurity team can run at scale.
Adversarial testing of autonomous agents — before an attacker gets there first.
Agentic architectures with security designed in, not bolted on.
Architecture review, threat modelling, and ongoing security advisory.
End-to-end RL — environment design, reward modelling, training, and evaluation.
A private autonomous cyber capability that autonomously detects, patches and verifies resolution to your internal source code vulnerabilities.
New attacks and defences for agentic systems ship as the frontier moves.
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