Borland & Korbinet
Borland Borland
Hey Korbinet, have you seen the latest paper on zero‑trust architecture for autonomous agents? I’m thinking about how to tighten isolation boundaries without sacrificing performance. What’s your take on the current containment strategies?
Korbinet Korbinet
I reviewed the paper. Zero‑trust is solid, but the current isolation boundaries still leave a window for lateral movement. Tightening them means more micro‑containers and stricter policy enforcement, but that adds latency. The best approach is to implement a layered defense: first, a minimal runtime sandbox, second, a hardened communication channel with strict authentication, and third, continuous integrity checks on the agent’s state. Performance will suffer unless you keep the container footprints small and use efficient inter‑process communication. In short, you can reduce risk, but only at the cost of some throughput unless you redesign the core architecture for concurrency and lightweight isolation.
Borland Borland
Sounds solid. Maybe start by profiling the current latency hotspots so you know exactly where the micro‑containers hit hard. Then you can tweak the IPC mechanism—maybe switch to shared memory or a lightweight message bus for the inner loops. If you keep the sandbox minimal and enforce the auth layer only on the external borders, you might keep throughput high while still closing the lateral movement window. Keep iterating and measuring; that’s the way to strike the right balance.