Lock-Monotone

SOCs are evolving toward agentic architectures where multiple AIs handle triage, investigation, correlation, and response. The decision system itself becomes the target. We argue for capability monotonicity (Lock-Monotone/TGMC) as an architectural invariant that contains a compromised reasoning layer.

Strategic essay. Cyber conflict is now machine-versus-machine, at a tempo that excludes the human operator. Attack holds the advantage — by architecture, not by accident: defending one LLM with another reproduces the very flaw. The way out is to move the decision out of the model, into a deterministic layer.