Agentic Network Traffic Monitoring

📅 2026-09-26
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This work addresses the expanding attack surface of AI agents by proposing an effective network traffic monitoring approach to ensure behavioral alignment with user intent. We develop an agent interaction simulator and introduce a novel analytical method for complex-valued hypersparse traffic matrices, uniquely integrating the DBOS transactional framework, the OneSparse hypersparse PostgreSQL database, and the GraphBLAS mathematical library. This approach transforms intricate multi-agent network interactions into structured, easily monitorable traffic matrices, thereby enabling efficient auditing and precise analysis of multi-agent behaviors. Ultimately, this work establishes an innovative paradigm for the security monitoring of agent-based systems.
📝 Abstract
As the use of agentic artificial intelligence increases in nearly every industry, there exists a widening attack surface. It is necessary to monitor agents to ensure that agents are acting in a way that is aligned with the users intent. Auditing an agent's network traffic provides a clear record of the agent interactions. This work presents a novel approach to monitoring the network traffic of agentic systems using complex valued hypersparse traffic matrices by integrating DBOS (DataBase OS), the OneSparse PostgreSQL database, and the GraphBLAS math library. To develop these concepts an agentic simulator was constructed, allowing a varying numbers of AI agents to collectively survey a virtual environment using different strategies. The resulting network traffic matrices enable easy monitoring of the AI agents.
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Agentic AI
Network Traffic Monitoring
Attack Surface
AI Alignment
Auditing
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Agentic AI
Hypersparse Traffic Matrices
GraphBLAS
Network Traffic Monitoring
DBOS
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