Neuro-Symbolic Hybrid WAF in Prolog with a Mind-Blowing 0.17ms Latency
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Aethel-Core is a neuro-symbolic hybrid Web Application Firewall (WAF) implemented in SWI-Prolog, designed for real-time Layer-7 threat mitigation with extremely low latency (0.17ms). It uses a large set of dynamic, tokenized threat signatures and logical inference to detect and block complex multi-vector attacks, including LFI and CRLF injections, as well as advanced threats like Web3 anomalies and adversarial AI simulations. The system generates structured JSON telemetry suitable for large language model fine-tuning. The project is open source under MIT License for core components, with proprietary enterprise extensions under development. The production deployment model is evolving as a standalone asynchronous reverse proxy gateway intended for zero-touch integration with existing infrastructure. No known exploits or vulnerabilities are reported.
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Many were highly skeptical about deploying Prolog for state-of-the-art cyber defense. Here is a live, concrete demonstration of our Neuro-Symbolic Core actively neutralizing a multi-vector mutated attack combining LFI and CRLF injection.
The entire threat telemetry and dynamic verdict are cleanly generated into a structured JSON payload—perfectly formatted and instantly ready for LLM fine-tuning. Real-world data and deterministic performance never lie.
https://github.com/lokinpendawa/aethel_core/blob/main/README.md