Insights & Research

Architecture briefs for event-level defense

Legacy research focuses on tooling; these Briefs focus on outcome-grade decisions. Event-native processing with bounded latency means insights are applied in the control window, while provable assurance means every conclusion is traceable to signed inputs and sealed evidence.

Research, briefs, and deployment guidance on Størm Engine’s event-native AI, post-quantum trust, and behavioural analysis.

From event to decision

Briefs translate architecture into decisions.

What breaks first

Trust gaps surface before traditional reviews.

What Størm evaluates

Behavioural state, reachability, and policy constraints.

What decision is produced

A bounded decision with scope and rationale.

What the leader gains

Briefs that inform enforceable governance.

Architecture Insight

Event-native decisioning

Størm Engine treats each event as a state transition and decides in bounded latency. Trust continuity, behavioural state, and graph reachability turn alerts into enforceable decisions.

  • Trusted admission
    PQC session binding and anti-replay ordering
  • Deterministic features
    Signed schemas prevent drift
  • Behavioural state
    Sequences, rhythms, and invariants
  • Graph reasoning
    Reachability and blast-radius containment
  • Policy-first decisions
    Explicit constraints bound AI outputs
Trust Fabric

Post-quantum continuity

StørmTrust embeds PQC into the operational fabric. Sessions, artefacts, and evidence remain verifiable against long-horizon threats.

  • ML-KEM sessions
    Epoch rotation for trusted continuity
  • ML-DSA signatures
    Models, policies, and schemas
  • AES-256-GCM
    Line-rate payload encryption
  • Artefact verification
    Load-time and runtime validation
  • Evidence sealing
    StørmVault chain of custody

Størm Engine Architecture Briefs

Briefs map architecture to governance.

A reference architecture for data plane, control plane, and evidence retention in high-assurance deployments.

Data plane

Størm Ingest, StørmPrep, StørmAI, and StørmGraph execute event admission, inference, and reachability in bounded latency.

Control plane

StørmTrust and StørmDecision govern identity, policies, models, and enforcement orchestration.

Evidence plane

StørmVault seals events, decisions, and artefacts for long-horizon audit and compliance.

Implementation roadmap

Briefs define phased adoption.

A phased deployment approach that preserves architectural integrity while delivering immediate containment value.

Phase 1: Trusted ingestion

  • PQC sessions — Bind events to trusted identities and epochs
  • Canonical envelopes — Deterministic schemas and ordering
  • Feature governance — Signed schemas and enrichment policy
  • Inline enrichment — Enforcement-grade context for decisions
  • StørmVault — Evidence sealing from day one

Phase 2-3: Enforcement and governance

Add GPU inference, behavioural state, and graph reasoning, then bind policy-first decisions to enforcement orchestration. Expand with sector-specific schema packs and deployment patterns.

Turn briefs into action.

Briefs should drive bounded decisions.

Use research to guide governance, deployment, and assurance.