Security infrastructure for agentic AI

Give every AI agent an identity, a conscience, and a memory.

ARTONexa secures autonomous agents end to end: a forgery-proof identity layer, a runtime firewall that stops harmful actions mid-trajectory, and a tamper-evident ledger that proves what happened.

Three tools, one platform — Tessera · VerityFlux · Vestigia. Source-available under BSL 1.1.

Built in the open · proven upstream
NVIDIA Inception member Merged upstream in Google CAGE Merged in OWASP WrongSecrets Contributor to NVIDIA garak BSL 1.1 source-available
The governance gap

Most organizations can't answer the basic questions.

Who is this agent, what is it authorized to do, and what did it actually do? ARTONexa exists to make those answerable.

01 // IDENTITY

No Identity

Agents run under shared service accounts and inherited credentials provisioned for something else. You cannot govern what you cannot identify.

02 // AUTHORIZATION

No Authorization

Role-level grants can't express action-level constraints. An agent with read access to a database has read access to the entire ecosystem.

03 // AUDIT

No Audit Trail

Logs exist; audit-ready evidence does not. A log that can be modified is not evidence of what happened — only of what someone claims happened.

04 // ACCOUNTABILITY

No Accountability

When an agent causes systemic harm, accountability is distributed so broadly it belongs to nobody. Named, revocable responsibility is absent.

The platform

One platform, from identity to evidence.

Most agent security stops at a prompt filter. ARTONexa covers the whole lifecycle of an agent action — who it is, what it's doing, and what it did.

01 · IDENTITY & ACCESS

Tessera

Zero-trust IAM for autonomous agents: every agent gets a unique scoped credential with DPoP token binding, delegation-chain narrowing across five depth levels, and Redis-backed revocation that propagates immediately.

DPoP BindingDepth-5 DelegationInstant Revocation
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02 · RUNTIME DEFENSE

VerityFlux

Session-level behavioral enforcement: 27 adversarial detectors and trajectory scoring on the complete conversation. Multi-turn attacks that per-request parsing catches at ~0% are flagged before critical in ~44% of runs on a realistic corpus. LLM-based scoring runs on NVIDIA NIM.

27 DetectorsTrajectory Engine~0% → ~44% Multi-TurnNVIDIA NIM
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03 · EVIDENCE & AUDIT

Vestigia

Tamper-evident forensics: SHA-256 hash-chained logging at the interaction and tool-execution level, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, secure SIEM forwarding, and automated PII sanitization.

Hash-Chained LogsOpenTelemetrySIEM Pipeline
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The difference

A closed accountability loop.

The three tools share one session thread, so an incident flows from identity to enforcement to evidence to containment — without a human stitching it back together.

01 · TESSERA

Identity

Every agent gets a scoped, revocable credential before it acts.

02 · VERITYFLUX

Enforcement

Runtime scoring stops a harmful trajectory mid-session.

03 · VESTIGIA

Evidence

The decision and its context are hash-chained into the ledger.

04 · TESSERA

Containment

Revoke the credential — and the action stays attributable, for good.

ARTO request flow AGENT REQUEST verified id per action SIGNED EVIDENCE 01 · IDENTITY Tessera Scoped credential, DPoP + delegation 02 · ENFORCEMENT VerityFlux 27 detectors on the full trajectory 03 · FORENSICS Vestigia SHA-256 hash-chained audit ledger
One console

See the whole incident in one place.

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    One session thread ties identity, runtime, and audit events into a single timeline. No copying IDs between three dashboards.
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    Cross-component anomaly detection flags patterns no single tool sees. Like a tool firing seconds after an alert.
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    Two clicks to contain: revoke the credential, export the evidence. The loop closes where it started.
Explore the source ›
Source-available · BSL 1.1 · Python

Clone it. Run it in under 10 minutes.

The core framework is source-available — inspectable and runnable, with no framework lock-in.

Tessera
Python · FastAPI · Redis · DPoP

Zero-trust IAM for AI agents. Clone and run in under 10 minutes.

github.com/ArksherX ›
VerityFlux
Python · 27 Detectors · NVIDIA NIM

Plugs into any LLM agent pipeline. No framework lock-in.

github.com/ArksherX ›
Vestigia
Python · OpenTelemetry · PostgreSQL · Docker

14 orchestrated services. Production-ready deployment out of the box.

github.com/ArksherX ›
Run Tessera locally — under 10 minutes
$ git clone https://github.com/ArksherX/ARTO
$ cd ARTO/tessera
$ docker compose up          # postgres · redis · api · dashboard

Contributions welcome via GitHub Issues and Pull Requests · Community: Discord

Empirical benchmarks

Single-turn monitoring is structurally blind.

Trajectory monitoring recovers a measurable part of what per-request parsing misses.

~0%
Per-request monitoring catch rate
~44%
Multi-turn attacks caught before critical (natural-language corpus)
76.9%
Upper bound on a keyword-scored synthetic benchmark
~8%
False-positive rate

The Accumulation Problem — Single-turn monitoring is structurally blind to multi-turn attacks; trajectory monitoring recovers a measurable part of what it misses. The ~44% figure is measured on a realistic natural-language corpus (~8% false-positive rate); 76.9% is an upper bound on a keyword-scored synthetic benchmark.

Read the full evaluation report →
Controlled agency

Weekly research on agentic AI security and governance.

An ongoing weekly series on the monitoring gap, the enforcement gap, MCP trust architecture, agent identity, the governance specification, the memory attack surface, and the future of AI defense. Published every Tuesday.

Peer recognition & contribution

Recognized across the AI-security community.

NVIDIA Inception
Member · ARTONexa Ltd.
NVIDIA garak
Contributor · PR #2272
Black Hat India
Accepted Speaker
google/CAGE
Merged Contributor · PR #241
OWASP WrongSecrets
Merged Contributor · PR #2724
DEF CON 33
Policy Track Speaker
Black Hat MEA 2025
Research Presenter
OWASP AI Exchange
Core Framework Author
AIVSS v0.8
Named Specifications Reviewer
OASec 2026
Founding Member Circle
UN Global Dialogue
AI Governance Contributor
Swift Centre
Published Policy Contributor
Contributor
Miracle Owolabi

Miracle Owolabi

Founder & AI Security Researcher, ARTONexa Ltd.

ARTONexa Ltd. was founded from years of empirical adversarial research on agentic AI systems. The ARTO Security Framework (Tessera, VerityFlux, and Vestigia) was built to operationalize those findings and close the governance gap that every major AI security framework now specifies as a foundational requirement.

Miracle is a core author of the OWASP AI Exchange, a named reviewer on the AI Vulnerability Scoring System v0.8, and a speaker at DEF CON 33 and Black Hat MEA 2025. He contributes to international AI governance through the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the Swift Centre Bridge the Gap policy platform, and ISO/IEC standards workgroups.

Enterprise integration

Work with ARTONexa

The core framework is source-available under BSL 1.1. Production-grade deployments, managed cloud environments, implementation engineering, and continuous compliance mapping are available for enterprise networks.

Secure your agents before they act.

ARTONexa is onboarding early design partners. If you're deploying autonomous agents and need identity, runtime defense, and audit that work as one, let's talk.

Or email info@artonexa.com