What KPATH Defence is
KPATH Defence is the same enforcement layer as KPATH Enterprise, deployed for defence and sovereign environments. It is an enforcement and accountability layer. It sits on the one path between agents and the systems they reach, verifies who is calling, enforces the policy you set, can stop any agent or chain of agents, and records every decision. It does not originate actions and it does not decide outcomes. KPATH enforces human control; it is not autonomous decisioning.
Human control, enforced on the call
Policy can require that any designated action waits for a named person, inline, before it proceeds. Routine work goes through; anything you mark as consequential stops until a person approves it, and the approval is recorded against the call it released. High-risk agents can be required to present a workload identity your identity provider verifies, and when an agent acts for a person, policy can insist the person is verified.
Any agent, or a whole chain of agents, can be stopped immediately and stays stopped. Afterwards a containment proof shows nothing in the chain was authorised after the stop.
Inside your boundary
| Property | How it holds |
|---|---|
| Deployment | Self-hosted, on premises, air-gapped; no outside connectivity required |
| Keys | Held in your own vault or key service; KPATH is a crypto user, not a custodian |
| Content | KPATH governs the request envelope and reads only the payload values you declare for a rule; a self-hosted guardrail keeps inspected content inside the boundary |
| Evidence | Signed, tamper-evident record streamed to your SIEM, exported to write-once storage and verifiable offline without trusting KPATH |
| Failure | You choose in advance: continue on the last decision, or refuse until recovery |
Accountability a third party can check
Every call, approval, refusal and stop is recorded with who acted and what was decided, never a secret or a message body. A standalone verifier proves the record without trusting KPATH’s console. A log you control is not evidence; a record anyone can verify is.