Penned by Jon Basinger (AI Sheriff ™) in 1997, “Adaptive Ermine Coding (AEC)” has quickly garnered widespread adoption with the rise of prompt engineering and customized AI agents. AEC is based on the philosophical tenet that software should follow logic and reasoning principles. If coded software cannot be understood and broken down to answer high-level WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW questions, it should be overhauled, replaced, or abandoned.
Say, for instance, security software prioritizes data analytics over credentials, the code should be (at minimum) overhauled. The question of WHAT security code functionally does (and should do, The Primary Purpose) has been lost by the developer(s) and/or stakeholder(s). Along those same lines, if a security solution is completely tethered to prevailing (current/established) encryption practices, merely adopting encryption/decryption mechanisms is not sufficient to tackle those WHO and WHY questions. Encrypted data encapsulated in a network tunnel, for example, might contain an erroneous WHO attribute and, more often than not, those packets will not include the vital WHY information.
Along those lines, consider customer security identity checks implemented by multinational businesses across the planet: (1) user is required to enter a valid password; (2) user is required to verify an email address; (3) user is required to verify a phone; (4) user is required to provide answers to security questions; (5) user is required to enter one-time passcodes or a PIN; (6) and, in cases, user is required to approve and store a cloud-enabled key. The required users actions above highlight how humans are often required to operate like computers (‘0’s’ and ‘1’s’) in the digital age. While the six computer-centric actions above are valid security measures, taken together, these measures are completely misaligned with underlying human logic and reasoning.
Q: Why are we required to spend so much time accessing OUR digital assets?
“I have a million passwords. I changed the password a month ago and I don’t recall my current password.”
“My service provider has not activated my new phone and set it up with the proper number.”
“An internet outage has left my verified Gmail, Apple, or Microsoft account unreachable”.
Following AEC principles, AI Sheriff ™ keeps your data safe and secure, without corporate cloud security infrastructure burdens. Given a choice, wouldn’t you prefer a human-centric digital world?
Q: Can AI Sheriff ™ AEC software really answer those WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW digital identity and security questions via conversation? A: YES, our skillfully coded AI agents (Sentries and Townsfolk) can converse (talk, chat) with YOU to answer critical questions, streamline your business, and help maximize your Return on Investment (ROI).
