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Tarique Smith header

LinkedIn Cogensec NVIDIA Inception GTC 2026 OWASP

I build security products and infrastructure at the intersection of AI, autonomous systems, and developer experience.

My work focuses on runtime governance, adversarial testing, agent integrity, and the architectural foundations required to secure AI systems in production.

At Cogensec, I’m building frameworks and tooling for measuring, enforcing, and stress-testing the structural integrity of autonomous agents.

Core thesis: Most AI security today is exogenous, external guardrails wrapped around agents with no security intelligence of their own.

That model breaks as agents become more autonomous.

We’re building the endogenous alternative, security as a structural property of the agent itself.



🎯 What I Do

  • Build security products that increase protection without slowing delivery
  • Design runtime governance and integrity systems for AI agents
  • Turn complex controls into developer experiences teams actually adopt
  • Create frameworks, models, and tooling for AI security evaluation
  • Bridge technical depth, product strategy, and execution from idea to launch

πŸ”¬ What I’m Building

Open Source Tests Python

A formal framework and reference implementation for measuring the structural integrity of autonomous AI agents. Defines three core properties and scores agents across four measurable dimensions.

βš”οΈ Gideon

Open Source NVIDIA GTC DGX Spark

Autonomous red teaming CLI for AI agents. Won NVIDIA’s developer contest at GTC 2026. Run live on DGX Spark (Grace Blackwell). Built to attack AI agent systems so you know where integrity breaks before adversaries do.

πŸ›‘οΈ Bastion

Open Source Python

MCP security toolkit. Python monorepo, four packages, designed to extend security enforcement to the Model Context Protocol layer and external tool integrations.

πŸ”­ Cortex Series

Status NVIDIA

Ten specialized security models, each mapped to a brain region and a distinct security function for autonomous AI agents. Three functional clusters coordinated by the Corpus Callosum inter-module hub.

πŸ‘οΈ ARGUS

Status

Runtime governance platform for AI agent deployments. Seven-layer architecture for policy enforcement, behavioral monitoring, and integrity assurance at scale.

πŸ“Š LITMUS

Status

AI security benchmarking and evaluation platform. Implements the Agentegrity scoring methodology. Positioning as the MITRE ATT&CK of AI security.


πŸ§ͺ Areas of Expertise

πŸ” Security Product Leadership

Defining security product strategy from category creation through enterprise adoption. Zero Trust architecture, platform security, secure-by-design systems, API security, developer security tooling, identity, access, and policy enforcement across Fortune 50 and startup-scale environments.

πŸ€– AI and Agent Security

Endogenous security architecture for autonomous agents, adversarial robustness, prompt injection and jailbreak resilience, RAG security, memory poisoning defense, behavioral drift detection, multi-agent threat modeling, and physical AI security.

☁️ Cloud and Platform Engineering

AWS, GCP, and Azure security architecture. Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems. DevSecOps and CI/CD security practices. Self-service platform design and developer experience for security adoption.

🏒 Enterprise Execution

Product operating models, program and portfolio delivery, cross-functional leadership, large-scale transformation. 30+ products shipped across startup speed and Fortune 50 scale. Translating technical security into business outcomes.


🧰 Technical Stack

πŸ€– AI & Agent Security Research

My Skills

Foundation Models Agent Frameworks Research Areas Physical AI

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Development

My Skills

πŸ” Security Architecture

Zero Trust Security Tools Red Team

πŸ“‹ Compliance

Compliance


πŸ“œ Research & Writing

Developing the theoretical and architectural foundations for AI agent security.

Title Description
πŸ“„ The Exogenous-Endogenous Security Distinction Why all current AI security is architecturally insufficient as agents scale
πŸ“„ The AI Security Market Map Is Wrong How the industry organizes security by function when it should organize by architecture
πŸ“„ Agentegrity: Structural Integrity for Autonomous AI Agents The formal framework and manifesto
πŸ“„ The Cortex Series: A Security Nervous System for AI Agents Neuroscience-inspired specialized security models
πŸ“° Zero Day Agent Newsletter Weekly intelligence on AI agent security

Member of the OWASP AI Exchange authors group.


πŸ’‘ What Sets Me Apart

What Sets Me Apart

πŸ”­ Range Deep overlap across security research, product strategy, platform design, and enterprise execution
🧠 Original Thinking Developing frameworks and vocabulary for agent integrity, runtime governance, and endogenous AI security
πŸ› οΈ Builder Mentality Open-source systems, applied research, and production-minded security tooling
🀝 Developer Trust Security products designed for usability, speed, and adoption
⚑ Timing Focused on the next control layer for AI systems as autonomy, tool use, and physical AI become real deployment concerns

Explore the Work


πŸ›οΈ Background

🏒 Senior Leadership, Verizon Led AI infrastructure, 5G edge, zero-trust, and enterprise security programs. $25M+ revenue impact. Trained FBI and CIA analysts in digital forensics and incident response.

πŸš€ Three-Time Entrepreneur Cogensec (AI agent security) Β· MuseLytics (AI/ML music analytics) Β· LogistixAI (mobile OCR)

πŸŽ“ MS, Computer Information Systems Boston University

15+ Years in Cybersecurity Enterprise security architecture, adversarial research, AI infrastructure, federal law enforcement training


πŸ† Certifications

CISM PMP CSPO CEH ACE SAFe


🀝 Ecosystem & Partners

NVIDIA Inception Google AWS Microsoft OWASP


Security should not be the thing that slows teams down. It should be the thing that helps them build with confidence.

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