Zero-trust control plane for agentic infrastructure

Give AI agents tools.
Keep the blast radius zero.

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol connects models to enterprise tools in minutes. CentraMesh ensures they can’t compromise production: enforcing cryptographic workload identity, verifying intent through cognitive AST inspection, and auditing every mutation with sub-millisecond overhead.

Architected for mission-critical utilities, defense systems, and regulated enterprise clouds
REQUEST_EVALUATION / LIVE PATH● POLICY ACTIVE
01Agent requestMCP / JSON-RPC 2.0INGRESS
02Workload identitymTLS 1.3 · SPIFFE JWT-SVIDATTESTED
03Cognitive policy gateAST intent · blast radius · RBACEVALUATED
04Enterprise toolDatabase · API · telemetryCONTROLLED
deny-by-defaultaudit-ready decision trail
<1ms
target gateway overhead
mTLS
cryptographic workload identity
AST
intent-aware tool validation
NIST
zero-trust design alignment
Protocol Vulnerability

Agents reason probabilistically.
Production backends require deterministic security.

MCP standardizes agent-to-tool connectivity, but lacks native workload attestation, caller verification, or execution policy. Unchecked tool calling exposes enterprise infrastructure to prompt injection and irreversible data corruption.

VULNERABILITY Default Permissive MCP & Unbounded Agents

Raw tool access creates uncontained blast radiuses across all sectors.

Direct agent connections pass unverified JSON-RPC payloads straight to databases, APIs, and microservices. Recent Cloud Security Alliance disclosures revealed systemic MCP STDIO command execution flaws. In finance, indirect prompt injection triggers wire fraud; in healthcare, unbounded queries leak PHI; in power grids, corrupted telemetry disrupts SCADA controls.

No Workload AttestationPrompt Injection VulnerabilityUnchecked Wire & DB MutationsHIPAA / SOX / NIST Exposure
ENFORCEMENT CentraMesh Defense-in-Depth

Every tool call earns execution rights cryptographically.

CentraMesh intercepts calls at wire speed. It verifies caller SPIFFE JWT-SVID credentials over mTLS 1.3, parses JSON arguments into AST syntax trees, checks parameter bounds against zero-trust policy, and triggers human sign-off on destructive actions.

SPIFFE JWT-SVIDmTLS 1.3 TerminationAST Cognitive GuardrailsAutomated Circuit Breaking
System Architecture

A zero-trust interceptor between intelligence and action.

Written in bare-metal Rust with Axum and Tokio connection pooling, CentraMesh acts as a transparent, high-throughput reverse proxy without modifying client agents or destination servers.

01 / INGRESS

Agent Client

Claude, GPT, or custom agent runtime over stdio, SSE, or WebSocket

02 / TRANSPORT

mTLS 1.3 Edge

Zero-overhead handshake termination & connection multiplexing

03 / IDENTITY

SPIFFE Attestation

JWT-SVID validation, cryptographic identity & scoped tool RBAC

04 / REASONING

HRM Policy Gate

AST syntax decomposition, parameter boundary checks & anomaly halting

05 / EGRESS

Enterprise Assets

PostgreSQL, pgokf vector stores, SCADA telemetry & REST/gRPC backends

DETERMINISTIC GATEWAYAny request exceeding parameter boundaries is rejected or escrowed for human approval with zero round-trip latency added to compliant operations.
Performance and market

High-assurance controls without adding a second bottleneck.

Internal planning benchmarks and market sizing are directional. Pilot deployments will replace them with reproducible customer evidence.

DIRECTIONAL GATEWAY OVERHEAD / MS
CentraMesh / Rust + Axum0.8
Envoy / C++1.4
Kong / OpenResty2.8
FastAPI / Python14.5

Directional comparison for architecture planning, not a third-party certification. Final numbers will be published with hardware, payload, and test-harness details.

MARKET DYNAMICS & EXPOSURE GAP
$1.08T

Gartner projects enterprise agentic software to surpass $1 trillion by 2030, while IDC forecasts agents absorb 26% of all enterprise IT spend. Guardian agent security represents an urgent $16.4B market opportunity.

65xprojected AI security gap
10-15%guardian agent share by 2030
The Critical Exposure Gap (Gartner & IDC)
Enterprise agentic software spend vs. dedicated AI security controls.
65x Disparity by 2030
$88B
$1.5B
2025
$202B
$2.8B
2026
$580B
$8.2B
2028
$1,080B
$16.4B
2030
WHY THE 65X DISPARITY MATTERS
65x
Projected AI Exposure Multiplier

Enterprises are racing to delegate mission-critical execution to autonomous AI agents, but defensive security spending lags by orders of magnitude.

WAF Blindspot: Traditional firewalls inspect HTTP text but cannot interpret or constrain JSON-RPC agent tool executions.
Guardian Market Capture: Gartner projects specialized Guardian Gateways will capture 10%–15% ($16.4B TAM) of the agentic software market.
Deterministic Moat: Operating at sub-millisecond line speed (0.8ms), CentraMesh provides non-negotiable security without developer drag.
Cross-Sector Zero Trust

Engineered for high-stakes enterprise & dual-use environments.

The same cryptographic control plane securing defense C2 networks and electrical SCADA systems defends healthcare EHRs, financial trading desks, and enterprise cloud infrastructure.

FIN

Banking & Wealth

Intercept indirect prompt injections via wire memos. Enforce strict parameter bounds and out-of-band human sign-off on capital movements.

MED

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Enforce HIPAA Minimum Necessary rules. Prevent clinical agents from scraping full EHR databases into external LLM contexts with kernel enclaves.

DEV

Cloud SaaS & DevSecOps

Contain coding agent MCP STDIO connections (Claude Code, Cursor). Block arbitrary shell command execution with strict syscall sandboxing.

GRID

Power Grids & SCADA

Protect electrical substation telemetry and breaker switching from adversarial prompt manipulation with deterministic Rust protocol gateways.

DEF

Defense Mission Command

NIST SP 800-207 and DoD Zero Trust Architecture compliance ensuring autonomous planning agents never touch unverified military networks.

LAW

Legal M&A & Due Diligence

Confine document-review agents within air-gapped virtual enclaves with strict egress filtering to prevent leak of proprietary deal strategies.

Founder-market fit

Built by a systems engineer who has lived inside the perimeter.

CentraMesh combines production infrastructure experience, utility-domain context, and military communications discipline.

David Saroka
Founder & CEO · USMC Veteran

“Autonomy only scales when operators can trust the boundary around it.”

National Grid

Lead / Staff Software Engineer focused on AKS zero-trust perimeters, OAuth2/JWKS validation, and streaming infrastructure for power-grid telemetry.

Cornell University

Systems architect for campus enterprise systems, hybrid OpenStack/AWS infrastructure, and automated deployment pipelines.

U.S. Marine Corps

Communications veteran and ground radio repair specialist, bringing operational discipline to high-assurance systems.

Open source

Creator of Rust-based tooling including pgokf and stratify, with CentraMesh designed as an extensible systems foundation.

Private Design Partner Cohort

Deploy CentraMesh to your VPC.
Secure your agentic workflows today.

We are onboarding 5 utility, defense, and high-assurance enterprise partners for our Q4 2026 deployment cohort. Request confidential technical documentation, benchmark whitepapers, and our investor memorandum.

Direct Founder Onboarding & VPC Architecture Review Hardware-Accelerated Bare-Metal Rust Proxy Binary NIST SP 800-207 & SDVOSB Procurement Fast-Track
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