Machines attack at machine speed. Humans defend at human speed. The technology to close this gap exists - the governance doesn't. A framework for when machines should be permitted to act without human approval.
Inline enforcement operates at machine speed, but trust cannot. IBSR is a validation step: using XDP to observe real traffic, simulate enforcement, and generate evidence before any blocking is enabled.
Autonomous mitigations already act at machine speed - but we still have no legitimate framework for granting them authority over novel threats.
Machines attack at machine speed. Humans defend at human speed. We propose a governance framework for closing that gap--not through blind trust, but through demonstrated competence.
The XDP logic came together in days. The infrastructure to prove it works took weeks. That ratio matters more than most people realise.
Solana reportedly absorbed a sustained ~6 Tbps volumetric DDoS attack with no downtime. That's real progress. It's also not the same thing as being protected.
I assumed Cloudflare would protect me from all denial-of-service attacks. It doesn’t. A reality check on origin IP bypasses, non-HTTP floods, and why the gap between the edge and your kernel matters.
Demonstrating the complete XDP detection pipeline with MQTT eventing. Shows kernel-level SYN-flood detection, userspace processing, and real-time remote alerting - all in milliseconds.