This 3-hour hands-on course is for architects building autonomous systems in production. Move beyond perimeter security to runtime trust. Learn to design architectures where every action carries verifiable identity, policy, and provenance. Make autonomy auditable, federated, and safe to scale. Based on AEBOP T3.5.
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This module establishes why traditional security models fail with autonomous agents and introduces the architectural shift to runtime trust. You'll analyze real-world failures where trust broke in production systems and learn the five disciplines that form the Trust Fabric.
You'll master the Trust Envelope pattern—embedding verification into execution flow rather than wrapping it. Understand key architectural invariants like "fail closed" and "proof at source," and develop the mental models needed to design systems where trust travels with every decision.
Learn to architect the data flows that carry trust metadata through your systems. Design policy-as-code governance, token architectures that bind identity to policy, and trace continuity that preserves provenance end-to-end. Separate operational telemetry from assurance data for effective monitoring.
Master boundary patterns where trust most often fails. Design cross-domain handshakes, federated identity exchange, and portable trust schemas that work across clouds and organizations. Develop your federation strategy and make critical architecture decisions about containment versus interoperability.
Translate architecture into implementation with practical technology strategies and integration patterns. Make build-versus-buy decisions for policy engines, key management, and observability platforms. Follow proven maturity ladders to evolve from prototypes to production systems without over-engineering.
Prepare for production operations with trust-specific SLOs, alerting strategies, and incident response playbooks. Learn capacity planning for trust infrastructure and integrate compliance requirements into your operational workflows. Complete the module with a production readiness checklist for your environment.
Module 4 provides the strategic framework for scaling trust across the enterprise and ensuring its resilience. You will learn to sequence capabilities through a defined maturity journey—from observable foundations to predictive, federated trust—while actively diagnosing and remediating the critical anti-patterns that cause trust to fail silently at scale.
This dual focus enables you to architect systems where trust evolves from a compliance checkpoint into a continuous, evidence-based property. Your role shifts from building for periodic audits to engineering for inherent trust—designing systems that prove their integrity in motion and recover gracefully under pressure, turning safe autonomy into a sustainable competitive advantage.