UNDER THE HOOD

A world-beating trust architecture.

Seven layers, a trust state machine, and 100 TB of combined ground truth — 35 TB of it Android — behind every score we emit. This is the deep end. The products it powers live on the main page.

01 · INSIDE THE BEHAVIOR TRUST LAYER

Seven layers between raw behavior and a decision.

Evidence flows down from devices to decisions; intelligence flows back up, because every evaluation refines the baselines. The order below is the order the data travels.

01ACQUIRE

Signal Collection Unit

Harvests thousands of high-volume signal types at three timescales — keyboard dwell & flight dynamics, file create/delete/rename rates, extension entropy, ransomware-like burst patterns, process creation trees, DNS resolution behavior, domain entropy & novelty, and session-level browsing abstractions — with integrity context (missingness ratios, agent health) attached to every batch.

120s / 900s / 3600s multi-timescale windows
2,100+ signals per agent, six signal families
metadata-only network side — privacy by design
02REPRESENT

Feature Engineering Unit

Converts noisy real-world activity into a mathematical representation of behavior: aggregation, extraction of behavioral, statistical and temporal patterns (cadence, entropy, sequence, distributional moments, trends, bursts, periodicity), then missing-resilient normalization so degraded telemetry never poisons a score.

1,024+ feature vector per entity per window
+100–250 integrity / meta signals
MIDAS-based missing-aware normalization
03BASELINE

Trust Intelligence Server

Learns what normal looks like — per entity, per session, per host, per tenant, per fleet. Exponentially-weighted baselines adapt as the fleet drifts; a neural autoencoder learns each entity's behavioral manifold; embedding space is monitored so concept drift is caught before it becomes blindness.

z₁ = αx₁ + (1−α)z₀ EWMA adaptive baseline
Enc(X)=Z · Dec(Z)=X̂ autoencoder manifold
CSV core registry versioned by registry hash
04MEASURE

Behavior Divergence Detection

Quantifies how far current behavior sits from the learned signature, five ways at once: statistical residual deviation, change-point detection for abrupt shifts and gradual drift, reconstruction error against the learned manifold, KL divergence between embeddings, and distance from the peer/fleet baseline — with EVT/GPD adaptive thresholds for genuinely novel behavior.

Z₁ = (x₁ − μ)/σ residual deviation
Page-Hinkley · CUSUM change-point & drift
E₁ = ‖X − X̂‖² · Dₖₗ(P‖Q) manifold & embedding drift
05FUSE

Fusion Intelligence Layer

Synthesizes divergence signals, graph data (inter-sensor linkages, similarity and causality, peer baselines) and contextual evidence into one coherent risk view — probabilistic fusion weighs each signal by significance and influence, and temporal-graph relevance weighs graph changes by recent drift history.

dynamic Bayes probabilistic signal fusion
outlier rank similarity + meta-signal ensemble
Jaccard · FCD fleet clustering & campaign likelihood
06DECIDE

Continuous Trust Scoring

One score in [0,1], recomputed continuously, with a priority level, a transparent decomposition of exactly which signals moved it, and suppression/policy gates so 150 suppression rules keep noise from becoming alert fatigue. Thresholds trigger alerting, blocking and contextually-aware response — detect, monitor, explain, act.

S₁ ∈ [0,1] descriptive confidence attached
Low / Med / High / Critical priority levels
explainable transparent model decomposition
07ACT

Policy Gates & Response

Turns scores into safe action: suppression rules and policy gates keep noise from becoming alert fatigue, trust-score thresholds trigger alerting, blocking and contextually-aware response — and every decision feeds back to retrain baselines, closing the loop between detection and defense.

150 suppression rules noise kept below alert fatigue
alert · block · respond fusion-based action on thresholds
feedback loop every decision retrains the baselines
02 · CONTINUITY OF TRUST

Trust is a state, with decay and recovery.

Rather than a binary verdict, each entity holds a modelled trust state that decays as anomalies accumulate and recovers as behavior returns to baseline — every transition attributable to understandable contributors.

Stablewithin bounds
Watchmild anomaly
Degradingaccumulating
Challengedstep-up / gate
Disruptedcontinuity broken
Recoveringreturning
// State transitions are asymmetric — recovery demands stronger temporal consistency than decay requires to raise concern.
~1,274
High-dimensional behavioural variables per entity
120·900·3600s
Multi-timescale windows — burst to long-term drift
Hybrid
Statistical + neural + temporal + fleet context
Linux·Win·macOS
Cross-platform agents (macOS on the roadmap)
03 · RESEARCH PRINCIPLES

Research-grade by construction.

TrustGate isn’t a scanner with a UI — it’s a research program shipped as a product. These are the principles every layer is built to honor.

R · 01

Evidence over testimony

Verdicts anchor in hardware attestation verified off the device and network metadata observed from outside — signals a resident implant cannot forge, no matter how deep it sits.

R · 02

Corpus-tuned models

Deterministic rules beside deep neural detectors, trained and continuously retrained on 1.5M+ labeled samples with a matched goodware set — driving false positives and false negatives down together, not one at the other’s expense.

R · 03

Fusion, mapped & explained

A 15-dimension fusion engine produces one calibrated score, decomposed into contributors and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK Mobile — so every verdict arrives with its reasoning attached.

R · 04

Honesty as architecture

Confidence stated, limits declared, blind spots documented. Decision support, not oracle theatre — the property that governments, journalists and executive-protection teams actually buy.

04 · TRUSTGATE CORPUS × DEEP LEARNING

From raw samples to a learning verdict engine.

The pipeline that turns 100 TB of combined ground truth — 35 TB of it Android — into deployed intelligence. Abstracted by design; specifics live under NDA.

L1
AcquireContinuous collection — crawlers, feeds, partner intake, consent-based scan write-back
1.5M+ samples
L2
CurateDeduplication, family labeling, fuzzy-hash indexing, time-stratified ground truth
100 TB curated
L3
RepresentStatic, structural & behavioral feature forging — the mathematical shape of intent
high-dim vectors
L4
LearnDeterministic rules beside deep neural models — drift-aware retraining, analyst label-capture loop
hybrid models
L5
ServeScoring APIs and on-device verdicts — every decision writes back into the corpus
closed loop
05 · THE INTELLIGENCE CORE

Acquisition is commodity. The corpus is the company.

Any competent engineer can rebuild collection. What cannot be rebuilt is a decade of labeled ground truth — and a scoring stack trained against it.

Fewer false positives. A matched known-good corpus proves "this exact binary was checked and found clean" — killing a false positive instantly, offline, with no third-party lookup.
Fewer false negatives. 1.5M known-bad hashes catch unmodified samples; TLSH fuzzy hashing catches repacked variants; deterministic rules and deep-learning risk models retrained on the corpus catch the novel.
A compounding flywheel. Every scan and every score writes back into the shared intelligence database — baselines, labels, fuzzy indices — so the moat deepens with use.
0
Labeled Android malware samples · 10 years
0
Raw APK corpus with detection metadata
0
Behavioral features per entity per window
0
Live rules — critical · suppression · fleet
0
Agent signals across six families
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Combined ground truth across platforms
06 · PROVENANCE

Where the data comes from.

Intelligence is only as trustworthy as its sources. Every signal in our stack traces to one of six documented origins — collected read-only, consent-based, and metadata-only on the network side.

01 · CORPUS

Decade-scale malware collection

1.5M+ Android malware samples gathered continuously since 2016 — ~35 TB of APKs, each carrying multi-engine detection metadata, family evolution history and signing-certificate lineage.

02 · ALLOWLIST

Verified goodware hashes

A matched known-good corpus built from CIRCL's public hashlookup service — the negative signal that proves a binary clean, offline, and kills false positives instantly.

03 · FEEDS

Live open-source threat intel

Continuously refreshed open-source IOC feeds — hashes, domains, IPs — merged into the intelligence database, so today's campaigns are matched against today's indicators.

04 · ROOTS OF TRUST

Hardware attestation anchors

Google's current attestation roots, tracked through the 2026 root rotation, so both established and newest devices verify. Evidence signed by secure hardware — not vouched for by software.

05 · FIELD TELEMETRY

Consent-based scan write-back

Every TrustGate assessment and every fleet-agent window writes back into the shared corpus — baselines, fuzzy indices, verdicts — under explicit consent, read-only on the device.

06 · ANALYST LABELS

Human-verified ground truth

A label-capture loop records analyst verdicts, retroactive corrections and survival labels on every reviewed finding — the training signal that keeps deterministic rules and ML models honest.

SELECTED RESEARCH

Working papers from the lab.

WORKING PAPER

Behavioural Trust Modelling: A High-Dimensional Approach to Security

Introduces continuous behavioural trust modelling — integrating baseline statistics, change-point detection, neural autoencoders and embedding-drift analysis into a single continuous trust score — and shows earlier detection of credential abuse, slow insider threats and AI-assisted attacks than event-based approaches.

STATISTICAL + NEURAL · MULTI-TIMESCALE
SPECIFICATION

Behaviour Trust Layer — Ontology v1

A formal, privacy-aware, cross-platform semantic model for trust-relevant signals: a clean signal universe, entity model, canonical naming, causal relationships and trust-state definitions with decay and recovery contributors — the foundation for explainable trust scoring.

CROSS-PLATFORM · EXPLAINABILITY-FIRST

Research access on request — write to the lab →

WORK WITH US

Bring the trust layer to your fleet.

Compromise assessments, design partnerships for the Behavior Trust Layer, corpus and API licensing, or an investor briefing — tell us which, and we'll come prepared.

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