5 papers
ToolGuardian: Declarative Security for AI Agent-Tool Interactions
Arun Ravindran, Saurabh Deochake
LLM agents increasingly rely on external tools, expanding capability while creating a new security boundary: third-party tools may appear benign at the interface level while embedd…
Heartbeat-Bound Hierarchical Credentials: Cryptographic Revocation for AI Agent Swarms
Saurabh Deochake
Autonomous AI agents that spawn sub-agent swarms create a safety gap: existing credential revocation mechanisms, OAuth~2.0 introspection, OCSP, and W3C Status Lists, require networ…
Cost Trade-offs of Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Large Language Models in Text-to-SQL
Saurabh Deochake, Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay
While Text-to-SQL systems achieve high accuracy, existing efficiency metrics like the Valid Efficiency Score prioritize execution time, a metric we show is fundamentally decoupled…
A Multi-Cloud Framework for Zero-Trust Workload Authentication
Saurabh Deochake, Ryan Murphy, Jeremiah Gearheart
Static, long-lived credentials for workload authentication create untenable security risks that violate Zero-Trust principles. This paper presents a multi-cloud framework using Wor…
ABACUS: A FinOps Service for Cloud Cost Optimization
Saurabh Deochake
In recent years, as more enterprises have moved their infrastructure to the cloud, significant challenges have emerged in achieving holistic cloud spend visibility and cost optimiz…