Hermes for AI & Agentic Security Teams

1. Observe What changed? →

2. Understand Why does it matter? →

3. Track How does risk evolve? →

4. Predict What happens next? →

5. Decide What to do? →

6. Verify What happened? →

7. Remember Persistent memory

1. The Autonomous Agent Security Blindspot

Traditional application security tools scan for SQL injection and buffer overflows, failing to capture agentic-specific threat surfaces:

Indirect Prompt Injection: Attacker payloads embedded inside ingested PDFs, emails, or web results hijack the agent’s intent.
Tool Hijacking & Privilege Escalation: An unconstrained agent uses filesystem or shell execution tools on behalf of an adversary.
Rogue Propagation & Lateral Movement: Compromised agents invoking peer agents or reading persistent vector database memory.

2. What Hermes Brings to Agentic AI Defense

Agentic Risk Observatory

Continuous empirical tracking of MITRE ATLAS techniques, MCP bridge vulnerabilities, and agentic attack patterns.

Agent Blast Radius Simulator

Simulate tool execution abuse and calculate propagation depth when an agent’s semantic trust boundary fails.

Agent Death Simulator

Stress-test emergency out-of-band kill-switches and sandbox isolation readiness to verify rogue agent shutdown.

Agent Threat Studio

Interactive threat modeling studio mapping model providers, tool privileges, RAG stores, and execution permissions.

3. Dynamic Trajectory: Agent Tool Boundary Rupture (Section 23)

Hermes Trajectory Engine

How Risk Trajectory Works

Legacy scanners give you a frozen number. Hermes computes the dynamic vector of exploitation.

Evaluated Vector: MCP Tool Execution Gateway / Shell Exec Bridge (AML.T0051)

1. Current Risk 📍

91 / 100 HTS

Static severity & weaponization right now

Critical Exposure

2. Risk Velocity ⚡

+26 pts / 24h

Rate of change over time (ΔR / Δt)

Rapid Surge

3. Risk Acceleration 🚀

Δ²R > 0

Critical (positive Δ²R/Δt²)

Non-Linear Escalation

4. Trajectory 📈

Critical Acceleration

Predictive curve & systemic archetype

Immediate T0 Action

📐 Mathematical Formalization & Archetypes View R(t) equation & gradients ▾

Risk Vector Equation: R(t) = R₀ + ∫ (v(t) + a(t)·t) dt

Hermes continuously samples KEV weaponization timestamps, EPSS percentiles, and public exploit commits to calculate real derivatives.

Archetype	Exploit Behavior	Decision Directive
Critical Acceleration	v > +10, a > 0 (KEV récent + PoC public actif)	T0 Confinement immédiat (< 24h)
Exponential Inflexion	v > +5, a > 0 (Armement en cours d'outillage)	T1 Patch planifié (< 7 jours)
Plateaued Risk	v ≈ 0, a ≈ 0 (Exploit stable, pas de nouveau vecteur)	Cycle de maintenance standard
Dormant / Theoretical	v = 0, a ≤ 0 (CVSS théorique, 0 exploit in the wild)	Surveillance passive sans alerte bloquante

4. Forward Forecast: Agentic Lateral Movement Risk (Section 24)

🔮 FORWARD FORECAST (FALSIFIABLE)

Brier Calibration V4.0

What happens next?

Evaluated Asset: Autonomous Finance Analysis Agent (ReAct Loop)

Probability of increased exploitation

86%

Probabilistic estimate, not certainty

Time horizon

14 days

Active resolution window

Confidence level

High

Brier score calibrated

Corroborating Primary Evidence:

✓ Model Context Protocol (MCP) local filesystem bridge exposed without ephemeral token scoping
✓ Indirect prompt injection vector validated in multimodal document ingestion pipeline
✓ Tool hijacking chain reaches internal relational database and S3 backup buckets
✓ Automated kill-switch latency exceeds 45 seconds under current architecture

5. Threat Modeling Chain: From Prompt to System Execution

Agent Model (LLM / VLM)
  ↓
Ingests Untrusted External Data (RAG / Web Search)
  ↓
Indirect Prompt Injection Triggers Tool Execution
  ↓
MCP Protocol Bridge (Model Context Protocol)
  ↓
Tool Privilege Abuse (Shell Exec / Write File / DB Access)
  ↓
External Data Exfiltration / Lateral Agent Movement
  ↓
[Hermes Prescriptive Containment: Read-Only Sandboxing & Kill-Switch Activation]

4. Agentic Defense Suite

🤖 Agentic Risk Observatory Explore real-world agentic incident patterns and ATLAS mappings.

💥 Agent Blast Radius Simulator Calculate lateral propagation and containment boundaries.

☠️ Agent Death Simulator Verify emergency kill-switch containment and out-of-band shutdown.

🛠️ AgentThreat Studio Threat-model your agentic architecture and tool permissions.