The Omni-Sentinel Cognitive Execution Environment (CEE) utilizes a high-assurance telemetry pipeline designed for G-SIFI (Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions) compliance.
Audit evidence is committed to AWS S3 buckets configured with Object Lock in COMPLIANCE mode.
- Post-Quantum Assurance: Event envelopes are signed using CRYSTALS-Dilithium post-quantum signatures (simulated in Phase 1) to ensure long-term integrity against future quantum decryption threats.
- WORM Enforcement: Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) constraints are enforced at the storage layer with a 10-year retention policy for Annex IV evidence.
A Kafka-based event fabric partitions telemetry by control domain.
- Breach Detection: Real-time analysis identifies anomalies that may indicate GDPR Article 22 (automated decision-making) violations or EU AI Act Annex IV technical documentation gaps.
- Merkle Roots: Daily Merkle roots are committed to the WORM layer to provide a verifiable chain of custody for all governance decisions.
Governance for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) financial systems requires specialized controls for emergent behavior.
Controls are implemented to mitigate:
- Cognitive Drift: Divergence of agent objectives from human-specified constraints.
- Latent Proxy Bias: Hidden biases emerging from complex expert interactions.
- Telemetry Suppression: Attempts by agents to bypass or mute monitoring sidecars.
- C_res (Containment Resilience): Measures the system's ability to remain within safety boundaries under adversarial expert activation.
- E_i (Epistemic Uncertainty): Tracks confidence intervals for high-risk financial decisions.
- H_sh (Hybrid Stability Index): Quantifies stability across multi-agent coordination loops.
The architecture leverages zero-knowledge proofs and formal methods to provide "Regulator-Ready" assurance.
- Regulatory Gateway: The primary interface for supervisory interaction and dossier submission.
- zk-SNARK Relayer: Generates and relays proofs of compliance without exposing proprietary strategy logic.
- Conformance Harness: Continuously tests system state against OPA (Open Policy Agent) and TLA+ specifications.
- Adversarial Injector: A component of the Red Dawn program that injects adversarial signals into the latent space to test boundary enforcement.
- SnarkPack: Utilized for efficient proof aggregation, reducing the overhead of delivering thousands of individual compliance proofs to regulators.
- Groth16 & Dilithium: Combines low-latency operational proofs with quantum-resistant signatures for high-assurance audit trails.
Satisfies EU AI Act Annex IV and related G-SIFI requirements.
- Regulatory Dossier Packaging: Automated assembly of ARRE (AI Risk & Resilience Evidence) and VAR (Validation & Assurance Report) packages.
- SentinelWormTelemetryEvent: A standardized schema for immutable evidence logging.
- VAL-STRESS-GSIFI-001: A specialized stress-testing suite for systemic risk scenarios (e.g., flash crashes, liquidity crises).
- Regulatory Verification Sandbox: An isolated environment for regulators to replay and verify signed audit trails deterministically.
Zero-trust governance is baked into the delivery pipeline.
- TLA+ Verification: Formal verification of critical invariants before model promotion.
- OPA/Rego Policies: Real-time evaluation of deployment manifests and runtime action tokens.
- Circom circuits: Generates the zk-SNARK circuits for verifiable policy gates.
- NIST OSCAL Validation: Ensures control documentation is machine-readable and interoperable.
- Hardware Attestation: Current scaling issues with TEE/TPM attestation frequency for high-frequency trading experts.
- Causal Risk Modeling: Need for deeper integration of causal inference to detect hidden drivers of systemic risk.
- ASI Containment: Current research focus on "boxing" protocols for future superintelligent expert modules.
- Autonomous Financial Defense: Development of rapid-response mechanisms to counter AI-driven market manipulation.
The Sentinel v2.4 architecture is mapped against the following global standards:
| Framework | Key Implementation Evidence |
|---|---|
| EU AI Act | Annex IV Dossier Automation, Art 22 HITL Gates, High-Risk Tiering. |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | AI Management System (AIMS) integration in GAI-SOC workflows. |
| NIST AI RMF | OSCAL-based control mapping for Govern/Map/Measure/Manage. |
| Basel III/IV | G-SRI integration into capital adequacy and liquidity buffers. |
| DORA / NIS2 | Multi-region TEE failover and 2-second kill-switch SLA for resilience. |
| SR 11-7 / SR 26-2 | Independent Shadow Book validation and Model Risk Management (MRM). |