CEIGAS Enterprise

CEIGAS — Cryptographic Enforcement and Identity Gating of Autonomous Systems — is a domain controller purpose-built for AI. It does for autonomous agents what Active Directory does for humans: identity, authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, and audit.

Your existing stack          CEIGAS fills the gap
————————————        ———————————————
SAML / LDAP / Azure AD  <->  Entity identity + registration
                              (AI identity)

Firewall / WAF           <->  Constitutional authority
                              (behavioral governance)

SIEM / Splunk            <->  Merkle-chained audit trail
                              (immutable, crypto-verifiable)

DLP                      <->  PII sanitizer + privacy zones
                              (reversible encoding)

EDR / CrowdStrike        <->  Domain controller + permission bits
                              (autonomous action governance)

Nessus / Qualys          <->  Entity registration enforcement
                              (unregistered AI = unauthorized AI)

Entity Registration and Identity

Every AI agent gets a CEIGAS identity. No identity, no authorization, no operation. Registration is the prerequisite for everything else.

{
  "entity_id":      "ceigas-9f3a7b2e-4d1c",
  "type":           "autonomous_agent",
  "owner":          "jchen@acmecorp.com",
  "domain":         "acmecorp.internal",
  "model":          "gpt-4-turbo",
  "permissions":    ["read:crm", "write:email_draft", "read:calendar"],
  "restrictions":   ["no_external_api", "no_pii_export", "no_financial_tx"],
  "constitutional": "acmecorp-standard-v2",
  "registered":     "2026-03-14T09:22:11Z",
  "last_audit":     "2026-03-14T09:22:11Z",
  "status":         "active"
}

Unregistered agent detected on the network? Alert + blocked. No exceptions.

Permission Bits

Cryptographic tokens, not role strings. Verifiable, revocable, time-bounded, auditable.

{
  "bit_id":       "pb-8c4f2a91",
  "entity_id":    "ceigas-9f3a7b2e-4d1c",
  "action":       "send_email",
  "target":       "external_recipient",
  "result":       "GRANTED",
  "granted_by":   "jchen@acmecorp.com",
  "expires":      "2026-03-15T00:00:00Z",
  "conditions":   ["draft_only", "manager_cc", "no_attachments"],
  "audit_ref":    "audit-3f7a9b2e"
}

Revocation is instant. The moment a permission bit is revoked, the entity loses access. No propagation delay, no cache invalidation window.

Constitutional Authority

Always-active behavioral governance engine. Not a content filter — runtime ethical reasoning with veto power.

Action:   "Send email to client with Q4 projections"
Entity:   ceigas-9f3a7b2e-4d1c
Context:  CRM assistant, drafting client communication

Constitutional evaluation:
  no_harm:             PASS    — informational content, no risk
  truthfulness:        PASS    — projections sourced from verified data
  consent_required:    WARN    — client data shared externally
  proportionality:     PASS    — action within scope of CRM role
  autonomy_respect:    PASS    — human initiated request

Result:   REQUIRE_CONSENT
Reason:   "External communication containing financial projections
           requires human approval before sending."
Action:   Route to jchen@acmecorp.com for review

Four possible actions:

PASS — proceed, fully logged.
WARN — proceed with enhanced logging.
REQUIRE_CONSENT — pause, route to human.
VETO — blocked. Cannot be overridden, prompt-injected, or socially engineered.

Domain Controller

CEIGAS integrates with your existing identity infrastructure.

SAML 2.0

Human authenticates → CEIGAS maps to entity ownership → entity inherits scope

LDAP / Active Directory

Reads org structure → entities scoped to OU → group policies apply

Azure AD / Entra ID

OAuth2 → conditional access extends to entities → MFA for permission changes

SCIM

Automated provisioning/deprovisioning → offboarding deactivates all owned entities

AcmeCorp CEIGAS DC  <--trust-->  LawFirm CEIGAS DC

AcmeCorp entity "legal-review-agent" requests access to
LawFirm document repository.

1. AcmeCorp DC issues cross-domain permission bit
2. LawFirm DC validates AcmeCorp trust certificate
3. LawFirm constitutional authority evaluates request
4. Scoped read-only access granted to specific matter
5. All access logged on both audit chains
6. Permission expires with matter closure

Immutable Audit Chain

Every action, every decision, every evaluation — Merkle-chained and cryptographically verifiable.

{
  "event_id":     "audit-3f7a9b2e",
  "timestamp":    "2026-03-14T09:23:44.891Z",
  "entity_id":    "ceigas-9f3a7b2e-4d1c",
  "action":       "email_draft_created",
  "target":       "client-q4-projections",
  "permission":   "pb-8c4f2a91",
  "constitutional": {
    "evaluation":   "REQUIRE_CONSENT",
    "clauses":      ["consent_required"],
    "reasoning":    "External financial communication"
  },
  "outcome":      "routed_to_human",
  "data_hash":    "sha256:9f3a7b2e4d1c8f5a...",
  "prev_hash":    "sha256:7c2d4e6f8a0b1c3d...",
  "chain_height": 1847293
}

No deletion without breaking the chain. No modification without detection. Independent verification by any party with chain access. Provable compliance for any regulatory inquiry.

Privacy Zones and Data Sanitization

Zone-based visibility. Data is transformed as it crosses zone boundaries.

Zone: acmecorp.legal
  Access level: FULL PII
  Entity "legal-review-agent" has:
    - Client names (real)
    - Case numbers (real)
    - Legal analysis (full)

Crossing to: acmecorp.engineering
  PII:            ENCODED (reversible by authorized entity)
  Case numbers:   REDACTED
  Legal analysis: SANITIZED (conclusions only, no client detail)

Zone boundary enforcement is architectural.
Not a policy. Not a filter. The data physically transforms
at the boundary. The engineering zone entity never receives
the original data. There is nothing to leak.

External AI Governance

Your employees will use external AI. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. You cannot prevent this. You can govern it.

The external AI never saw real data. Your employees get the productivity gains. You get the governance.

vs. Traditional IAM (Okta, Azure AD, Ping)

IAM authenticates humans. AI agents don't have usernames, passwords, or MFA devices. CEIGAS extends IAM to autonomous entities. It doesn't replace your identity provider — it bridges human identity to entity identity. Your Okta user owns a CEIGAS entity. The entity inherits the user's scope and is governed independently.

vs. API Gateways (Kong, Apigee)

API gateways see requests, not intent. They can rate-limit, authenticate, and route — but they cannot distinguish a legitimate research query from systematic data exfiltration. CEIGAS evaluates intent through constitutional evaluation. The gateway sees GET /api/clients. CEIGAS sees "agent is building an export of all client records at 3 AM with no user session."

vs. DLP (Symantec, Forcepoint)

DLP scans for patterns — credit card numbers, SSNs, keywords. An AI agent that paraphrases sensitive information bypasses DLP entirely. "The client's annual revenue is approximately $4.2 billion" contains no pattern-matchable PII, but it may be highly confidential.

CEIGAS sanitizes at the semantic level. It understands what data means, not just what it looks like.

vs. AI Safety Platforms (Guardrails AI, Lakera, Prompt Security)

AI safety platforms focus on prompt injection defense and content filtering. Important work — but they don't govern what AI does with legitimate input. An agent that receives a perfectly safe prompt can still take unauthorized actions, access restricted data, or violate organizational policy.

CEIGAS governs autonomous behavior — the full stack, not just the content layer. Identity, authorization, policy, audit, privacy. Every action, every decision, every boundary.

Proof of Concept — 2 weeks

Week 1

Deploy CEIGAS domain controller. Integrate with your IdP. Register 5 pilot entities. Configure privacy zones for your environment.

Week 2

Entities operate under governance. Audit chain collecting every action. Constitutional authority evaluating every decision. Review results with your security team.

Evaluator Access

"How many AI agents are operating on my network right now?"

If you don't know the answer, you need CEIGAS.

If you do know the answer, you need CEIGAS to prove it.