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QUANTUM HACKATHON 2025

AEGIS

Autonomous Cyber-Defense Swarm

From passive alerting to active autonomous defense —

collapsing a 258-day breach lifecycle down to 15 seconds.

15 sec

MTTR

258→0

Breach Days

5-Phase

AI Swarm

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THE PROBLEM

The Cybersecurity Industry Is Losing the Race

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Average Breach Lifecycle

258

DAYS

194 days to identify + 64 days to contain

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report

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AI-Driven Attacks

Adversarial AI can compromise a server in milliseconds — while defenders are still asleep.

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Passive SIEMs Are Failing

Traditional SIEMs act as news reporters. They alert humans who are overwhelmed, slow, or unavailable.

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Broken Manual Workflow

Alert → Analyst → Investigate → Patch. Every step loses precious hours. The attacker is already gone.

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THE SOLUTION

AEGIS: Passive Alerting → Active Autonomous Defense

"What if the security system didn't just watch? What if it fought back?"

BEFORE (Legacy SIEM)

  • Passive log monitoring
  • Alert → human review
  • Days / weeks to resolve
  • Attacker roams freely
  • Manual patch process

AEGIS APPROACH

  • Event-driven autonomous AI swarm
  • Detect → Investigate → Reason → Act
  • <15 seconds to resolve
  • Attacker trapped in honeypot
  • AI-generated cryptographic patch

IMPACT

  • 258-day lifecycle → 15 sec
  • No analyst needed at 3 AM
  • Active deception layer
  • Human-in-the-Loop approval
  • Federated threat intelligence

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HOW IT WORKS

5-Phase Autonomous Defense Loop

01

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DETECT

Elastic Watcher monitors live logs in real-time. Reacts instantly to SQL Injection and anomaly patterns — no human query needed.

02

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INVESTIGATE

ES|QL forensics isolates the attacker's IP and payload. Sub-millisecond query execution for instant threat profiling.

03

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REASON

ELSER semantic vector search scans the entire codebase, finding the exact file & line number responsible for the vulnerability.

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DECEIVE

Nginx dynamically reroutes the attacker into a Docker Honeypot — trapping them without dropping the connection.

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REMEDIATE

AI generates a cryptographic patch and presents it to a human operator via the God Mode Command Center for one-click approval.

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TECH STACK

Built End-to-End on Elastic Cloud Serverless

NERVOUS SYSTEM

  • Docker Swarm (Vulnerable App + Nginx)
  • Filebeat → JSON log streaming
  • Elastic Watcher (autonomous trigger)

THE BRAIN

  • Elastic Agent Builder (LLM orchestration)
  • Custom ES|QL tool definitions
  • Strict Schema Enforcement (anti-hallucination)

THE MEMORY

  • ELSER — Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR
  • Semantic vector search over codebase
  • Intent-based vulnerability identification

THE INTERFACE

  • Streamlit God Mode dashboard
  • Neural Stream thought visualization
  • Human-in-the-Loop approval mechanism

💡 Rebuilt entire orchestration swarm using Elastic Agent Builder in just 4 hours — replacing days of manual Python scripting

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ACHIEVEMENTS

What We Built & What We Proved

<15s

Mean Time to Resolve

258→15s

Days to Seconds

100%

Full Elastic Stack Utilization

4hrs

Swarm Rebuild (vs days)

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Full-Stack Elastic

Filebeat, Watcher, ES|QL, ELSER & Serverless — all working together as one unified defense engine.

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Active Deception

Live curl attacks rerouted into Docker Honeypot without dropping the connection. Looks like magic.

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Semantic Code RAG

ELSER found vulnerabilities that keyword scanners missed, by understanding intent behind the code logic.

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Safe Autonomy

Human-in-the-Loop design proves AI can be powerful and fast without being reckless or unaccountable.

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ROADMAP

What's Next for AEGIS

PHASE 2

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Multi-Vector Defense

  • Expand Vector Store to detect XSS, RCE, DDoS
  • Pattern library from global threat intelligence
  • Behavioral anomaly baseline per application

PHASE 3

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Federated Learning Network

  • Multiple AEGIS instances share Threat Fingerprints via Elastic
  • Global real-time signature sharing — one hit protects all
  • Privacy-preserving federated model updates

PHASE 4

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Auto-Rollback & CI/CD

  • Direct integration with GitHub / GitLab pipelines
  • Auto-commit, test, and merge security patches
  • Zero-downtime, continuous hardening loop

Vision: Every organization deserves a digital immune system that fights back — autonomously, intelligently, and safely.

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THANK YOU

AEGIS

Autonomous Cyber-Defense Swarm

⚡ Event-driven AI — triggered by observability, not prompts

🎯 258-day breach lifecycle → <15 seconds

🤝 Powerful AI with Human-in-the-Loop safety

🏆 Quantum Hackathon | Cybersecurity Track