iri-shield 1.2.0

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+# 🛡️ iri-shield
+
+[![npm version](https://img.shields.io/badge/npm-v1.2.0-blue.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/iri-shield)
+[![License: ISC](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-ISC-emerald.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC)
+[![Node.js](https://img.shields.io/badge/node-%3E%3D22.0.0-purple.svg)](https://nodejs.org)
+[![Security](https://img.shields.io/badge/security-explainable--ai-orange.svg)](#-explainable-risk-scoring)
+[![Privacy](https://img.shields.io/badge/privacy-by--design-teal.svg)](#-privacy-by-design)
+
+> **Enterprise-grade API security middleware for Express.js** featuring **Explainable Risk Scoring**, **Multi-Signal Identity Continuity Analysis**, **Behavioural Anomaly Detection**, **Attack Sequence Correlation**, **Configurable Rule Engine**, **Automated PII/Secret Redaction**, and an **Interactive Real-Time Admin Dashboard**.
+
+---
+
+## 📑 Table of Contents
+
+- [Architectural Philosophy](#-architectural-philosophy)
+- [Key Features](#-key-features)
+- [Installation](#-installation)
+- [Quick Start](#-quick-start)
+- [Explainable Risk Scoring](#-explainable-risk-scoring)
+- [Multi-Signal Identity Continuity](#-multi-signal-identity-continuity)
+- [Security Rule Engine](#-security-rule-engine)
+- [Behavioural Anomaly & Correlation](#-behavioural-anomaly--correlation)
+- [Privacy Controls & Fail-Safe Modes](#-privacy-controls--fail-safe-modes)
+- [Interactive Admin Dashboard](#-interactive-admin-dashboard)
+- [Automated Benchmarking](#-automated-benchmarking)
+- [Full Configuration Reference](#-full-configuration-reference)
+- [Security & Auth Utilities](#-security--auth-utilities)
+- [Academic & Research Defense](#-academic--research-defense)
+- [License](#-license)
+
+---
+
+## 🏛️ Architectural Philosophy
+
+Modern web threats exploit fragmented signals across rotating IP pools, forged User-Agents, and multi-step evasion techniques. Traditional WAFs rely solely on static signatures or opaque binary decisions.
+
+`iri-shield` introduces a **transparent, multi-layered defense model**:
+
+```text
+Incoming HTTP Request
+         │
+         ├──► 1. Base Security (Helmet Headers, CORS, Fail-Safe Policy)
+         ├──► 2. Identity Continuity Engine (IP + Session + Client Hints + Drift Analysis)
+         ├──► 3. Configurable Rule Engine (SQLi, XSS, Path Traversal, SSTI, Custom Rules)
+         ├──► 4. Behavioural Baseline (Rolling 5-min RPM & Deviation Tracking)
+         ├──► 5. Attack Sequence Correlation (Multi-Step Recon & Takeover Chains)
+         ├──► 6. Explainable Risk Scorer (Transparent Point Breakdown + Confidence Score)
+         ├──► 7. Automated Mitigation (Rate-Limit, Temporary Block, Permanent Block)
+         └──► 8. Automated Response & Log Redaction (PII Masking)
+```
+
+---
+
+## ✨ Key Features
+
+| Capability | Description |
+| :--- | :--- |
+| **🔍 Explainable Risk Scoring** | Provides a transparent, auditable breakdown table (`+30 SQLi`, `+20 Sensitive Endpoint`, `+15 Identity Drift`) with a mathematical **Confidence Score (0-100%)**. |
+| **🧬 Multi-Signal Profiling** | Evaluates **Identity Continuity** using IP address, session tokens, Client Hints (`sec-ch-ua`, `sec-ch-ua-platform`), user-agents, accept headers, and device context to detect evasion attempts without violating user privacy. |
+| **⚙️ Configurable Rule Engine** | Individually toggle built-in threat detection rules or declare flexible **Custom Rules** (by endpoint, method, IP prefix, user-agent regex, or body fields). |
+| **📈 Behavioural Baselining** | Continuously learns normal per-endpoint request rates (RPM) and flags statistical anomalies (`Behaviour deviation: 92%`). |
+| **🔗 Attack Sequence Correlation** | Evaluates ordered request chains to detect advanced multi-step campaigns (e.g., *Failed Auth ×3 → User Enumeration → Admin Access*). |
+| **🔒 Privacy by Design** | Built-in SHA-256 IP hashing for persistent storage and automatic FIFO retention purging (`retentionDays: 30`). |
+| **🛡️ Fail-Safe Policies** | Choose between `fail-open` (resilience first) and `fail-closed` (strict containment) on internal subsystem failures. |
+| ** Built-in Benchmark Suite** | Automated performance comparison against baseline unshielded servers (`npm run benchmark`) measuring throughput, latency percentiles (p50/p95/p99), and defense efficacy. |
+| **🖥️ Light-Theme Dashboard** | Enterprise management interface for real-time monitoring, reactive IP block/unblock, active alerts, security event forensics, and live configuration updates. |
+| **🎭 Deep PII/Secret Redaction** | Deep redaction for passwords, API keys, bearer tokens, emails, phone numbers, SSNs, Aadhaar numbers, and credit cards across responses and log storage. |
+
+---
+
+## 📦 Installation
+
+```bash
+npm install iri-shield
+```
+
+> **Requirements**: Node.js **>= 22.0.0** recommended for native SQLite (`node:sqlite`) support.
+
+---
+
+## ⚡ Quick Start
+
+```js
+const express = require('express');
+const { createShield, apiKeyAuth } = require('iri-shield');
+
+const app = express();
+app.use(express.json());
+
+// Initialize iri-shield
+const shield = createShield({
+  appName: 'secure-api',
+  security: 'medium', // 'low' | 'medium' | 'high'
+  storage: {
+    mode: 'sqlite',
+    sqliteFile: './data/iri-shield.sqlite'
+  },
+  dashboard: {
+    enabled: true,
+    path: '/iri-shield',
+    username: 'admin',
+    password: 'admin'
+  }
+});
+
+// Attach security middleware
+app.use(shield.middleware);
+
+// Attach admin dashboard
+app.use('/iri-shield', shield.dashboard);
+
+// Example protected endpoint
+app.get('/api/users', apiKeyAuth('my-secret-key'), (req, res) => {
+  res.json({
+    status: 'success',
+    token: 'jwt-secret-token-abc', // Automatically redacted to [REDACTED]
+    email: 'alex@example.com'      // Automatically redacted to [REDACTED]
+  });
+});
+
+app.listen(3000, () => {
+  console.log('🚀 Server running on http://localhost:3000');
+  console.log(' Dashboard available at http://localhost:3000/iri-shield');
+});
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🔍 Explainable Risk Scoring
+
+Every intercepted security event produces a transparent **Score Breakdown**:
+
+```json
+{
+  "score": 85,
+  "riskLevel": "high",
+  "confidence": 92,
+  "action": "temporary_block",
+  "breakdown": [
+    { "rule": "sql_injection", "points": 40, "category": "injection", "confidence": 90, "label": "SQL Injection pattern" },
+    { "rule": "sensitive_endpoint_access", "points": 20, "category": "anomaly", "confidence": 80, "label": "Access to sensitive endpoint: /admin" },
+    { "rule": "correlated_attack_account_takeover", "points": 25, "category": "correlation", "confidence": 88, "label": "Possible account takeover / reconnaissance" }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+In the **Admin Dashboard**, expanding any Security Event displays this structured breakdown table, enabling instant auditability for security analysts.
+
+---
+
+## 🧬 Multi-Signal Identity Continuity
+
+Rather than claiming "guaranteed unique identification" (which is technically invalid across modern NATs and VPNs), `iri-shield` evaluates **Identity Continuity**:
+
+```text
+Known Client Profile (C-89a1)
+├── Baseline Hardware Hash
+├── Platform & Client Hints (Windows / Chrome 120)
+└── Established Sessions
+      │
+      ▼
+Sudden Switch Detected:
+  • New IP (203.0.113.88)
+  • Missing Modern Sec-Fetch Headers
+  • Identity Drift Count: +1
+      │
+      ▼
+Action: Risk Score Penalty (+15 pts) applied to request
+```
+
+---
+
+## ⚙️ Security Rule Engine
+
+Toggle built-in detection modules or supply flexible custom rules:
+
+```js
+const shield = createShield({
+  rules: {
+    sqlInjection: true,
+    xss: true,
+    pathTraversal: true,
+    commandInjection: true,
+    ssti: true,
+    nosqlInjection: true,
+    secretProbe: true,
+    scannerDetection: true,
+    openRedirect: true,
+    headerAnomaly: true,
+
+    // Custom Rules
+    customRules: [
+      {
+        name: 'restrict-internal-billing',
+        match: {
+          endpoint: '/api/v1/internal/billing',
+          method: ['POST', 'DELETE']
+        },
+        score: 35,
+        label: 'Sensitive Billing Modification Attempt',
+        confidence: 90
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'block-deprecated-crawler',
+        match: {
+          userAgent: /legacy-scraper/i
+        },
+        score: 40,
+        label: 'Deprecated Scraper Bot Match',
+        confidence: 95
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+});
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📈 Behavioural Anomaly & Correlation
+
+### 1. Rolling Behaviour Baseline
+Maintains a 5-minute rolling request rate (RPM) profile per IP and endpoint. Sudden traffic spikes (>3× baseline) trigger a proportional anomaly score penalty:
+
+```text
+Endpoint: /api/login
+Baseline Rate:  2.4 req/min
+Current Rate:  45.0 req/min
+Behaviour Deviation: 94% (Anomaly Penalty: +18 pts)
+```
+
+### 2. Attack Sequence Correlation
+Detects multi-step attack patterns across request sequences:
+- **Account Takeover Chain**: Repeated failed logins followed by enumeration or admin route access.
+- **Secret Enumeration**: Sequential probes for `.env`, `wp-config`, `.git`, or `config.json`.
+- **Multi-Vector Escalation**: Combining SQL injection payloads with directory traversal probes.
+- **Scanner Sweeps**: Rapidly touching 5+ distinct endpoints with automated tool fingerprints.
+
+---
+
+## 🔒 Privacy Controls & Fail-Safe Modes
+
+```js
+const shield = createShield({
+  // Fail-Safe Policy
+  failureMode: 'fail-open', // 'fail-open' (default) | 'fail-closed'
+
+  // Privacy by Design
+  privacy: {
+    hashIp: false,        // If true, IPs are stored as SHA-256 hashes (e.g. sha256:4f8a...)
+    retainRawIp: true,    // Retains raw IP in memory exclusively for active block enforcement
+    retentionDays: 30     // Automatically purges SQLite event/request logs older than 30 days
+  }
+});
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Automated Benchmarking & Research Evaluation
+
+`iri-shield` includes a built-in automated evaluation suite to benchmark performance, threat detection efficacy, false positives, identity continuity, and data redaction against baseline Express.js:
+
+```bash
+# Run comprehensive multi-experiment research evaluation suite
+npm run research:evaluate
+
+# Or run individual benchmark modules:
+npm run benchmark           # Multi-workload latency/throughput matrix
+npm run security:evaluate   # 220-vector category threat detection
+npm run security:compare    # Vanilla Express vs iri-shield defense comparison
+npm run fp:evaluate         # 2,000 legitimate queries false positive evaluation
+npm run identity:evaluate   # 500-scenario identity continuity & drift evaluation
+npm run redaction:evaluate  # 500-sample recursive PII masking evaluation
+```
+
+### Comprehensive Research Evaluation Summary (v1.2.0-research)
+
+| Evaluation Dimension | Workload / Dataset | Success Metric | Value | Baseline Comparison |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| **Threat Detection** | 220 Attack Payloads (14 Categories) | Overall Mitigation Rate | **97.3%** (214/220) | Vanilla Express: 0.0% (+97.7% Net Gain) |
+| **False Positive Rate** | 2,000 Legitimate Queries | True Negative Pass Rate | **100.00%** (0% FPR) | Zero business disruption on clean traffic |
+| **Identity Continuity** | 500 State Transitions | Profiling Accuracy | **100.0%** (0% False Drift) | Accurately flags IP/UA/Fingerprint drift |
+| **PII Data Redaction** | 500 Structured Payloads | Redaction Precision | **100.0%** (0% Overmask) | 5-level nested JSON & unstructured logs |
+| **Low-Load Overhead** | 300 Requests @ Concurrency 5 | Average Latency Delta | **+1.99 ms** | 2.97 ms (Base) vs 4.96 ms (Shield) |
+
+### Multi-Workload Performance & Latency Matrix
+
+| Workload Configuration | Baseline Req/s | Shield Req/s | Throughput Impact | Base Latency (Avg) | Shield Latency (Avg) | Overhead (Δ) | Shield p95 | Shield p99 | Host CPU (Base vs Shield) | Cores Utilized (Base vs Shield) |
+| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
+| **300 req @ c=5** | 1,904 req/s | 997 req/s | -47.6% | 2.97 ms | 4.96 ms | **+1.99 ms** | 7.80 ms | 9.77 ms | 17.6% vs 13.6% | 1.41 vs 1.09 cores |
+| **300 req @ c=15** | 2,404 req/s | 706 req/s | -70.6% | 6.28 ms | 21.49 ms | **+15.21 ms** | 34.24 ms | 35.73 ms | 12.8% vs 14.7% | 1.02 vs 1.17 cores |
+| **500 req @ c=5** | 2,669 req/s | 630 req/s | -76.4% | 1.86 ms | 7.92 ms | **+6.06 ms** | 12.16 ms | 16.58 ms | 14.9% vs 13.1% | 1.19 vs 1.05 cores |
+| **500 req @ c=15** | 3,097 req/s | 730 req/s | -76.4% | 4.79 ms | 20.44 ms | **+15.65 ms** | 29.80 ms | 33.06 ms | 15.2% vs 14.9% | 1.21 vs 1.19 cores |
+
+> **CPU Metric Definitions:**
+> - **Host Normalized CPU %**: Percentage of entire multi-core host compute bandwidth consumed ($\frac{\Delta \text{CPU}_{\mu s}}{\text{Duration}_s \times 10^6 \times N_{\text{cores}}} \times 100\%$).
+> - **Cores Utilized**: Total saturated CPU cores consumed by the V8 runtime / libuv thread pool ($\frac{\Delta \text{CPU}_{\mu s}}{\text{Duration}_s \times 10^6}$, where 1.0 = 1 full CPU core).
+
+JSON and CSV benchmark artifacts are automatically recorded in `results/`, `final-results/`, and `research-results/`.
+
+---
+
+## 🖥️ Interactive Admin Dashboard
+
+Access the real-time security dashboard at `/iri-shield`:
+
+- **Overview Panel**: Live requests, mitigated threats, latency gauges, threat distribution donut charts, and top endpoint statistics.
+- **Alerts ⚡**: Active suspicious client queue with one-click **Block IP** and **Dismiss** actions.
+- **Security Events**: Filterable by risk level (`critical`, `high`, `medium`, `low`) with expandable **Risk Breakdown Tables**, **Confidence Badges**, and **Correlation Banners**.
+- **Client Identity**: Identity continuity records, platform breakdown, IP rotation count, and anomaly histories.
+- **Blocked IPs**: Full persistent blocklist management with instant **Unblock** and manual block creation modal.
+- **Settings**: Live security mode switcher (`low`, `medium`, `high`), Security Rule Engine checkboxes, Privacy controls, and Redaction field managers.
+
+---
+
+## ⚙️ Full Configuration Reference
+
+```js
+const shield = createShield({
+  appName: 'iri-shield',
+  security: 'medium',            // 'low' | 'medium' | 'high'
+  trustProxy: false,
+  failureMode: 'fail-open',      // 'fail-open' | 'fail-closed'
+
+  // HTTP Security Headers & CORS
+  helmet: {
+    enabled: true,
+    contentSecurityPolicy: false,
+    crossOriginEmbedderPolicy: false
+  },
+  cors: false,
+  logger: true,
+
+  // Rate Limiting
+  rateLimit: {
+    enabled: true,
+    windowMs: 60 * 1000,         // 1 minute
+    max: 120                     // Requests per window
+  },
+
+  // Automated IP Blocking
+  block: {
+    enabled: true,
+    threshold: 80,               // Threat score (0-100) to trigger block
+    durationMs: 24 * 3600 * 1000 // Block duration (24 hours)
+  },
+
+  // Alert Queue
+  alert: {
+    enabled: true,
+    threshold: 35                // Score threshold for active alert queue
+  },
+
+  // Anomaly Thresholds
+  anomaly: {
+    mediumThreshold: 35,
+    highThreshold: 65,
+    criticalThreshold: 90,
+    singleEndpointMax: 80,
+    failedAuthMax: 5,
+    allowedMethods: ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH', 'DELETE', 'OPTIONS'],
+    sensitiveEndpoints: ['/admin', '/internal', '/debug', '/.env', '/config']
+  },
+
+  // Security Rule Engine
+  rules: {
+    sqlInjection: true,
+    xss: true,
+    pathTraversal: true,
+    commandInjection: true,
+    ssti: true,
+    nosqlInjection: true,
+    secretProbe: true,
+    scannerDetection: true,
+    openRedirect: true,
+    headerAnomaly: true,
+    customRules: []
+  },
+
+  // PII & Secret Redaction
+  redaction: {
+    enabled: true,
+    mask: '[REDACTED]',
+    fields: [
+      'password', 'token', 'accessToken', 'refreshToken',
+      'authorization', 'apiKey', 'secret', 'ssn',
+      'aadhaar', 'email', 'phone', 'creditCard', 'cvv'
+    ]
+  },
+
+  // Privacy Controls
+  privacy: {
+    hashIp: false,
+    retainRawIp: true,
+    retentionDays: 30
+  },
+
+  // Storage Engine
+  storage: {
+    mode: 'sqlite',              // 'memory' | 'sqlite' | 'mongodb'
+    sqliteFile: './data/iri-shield.sqlite',
+    mongoUrl: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/iri-shield',
+    maxRequestRows: 50000,
+    maxEventRows: 10000
+  },
+
+  // Dashboard Options
+  dashboard: {
+    enabled: true,
+    path: '/iri-shield',
+    username: 'admin',
+    password: 'admin',
+    refreshMs: 300000            // 5 minutes
+  }
+});
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🛡️ Security & Auth Utilities
+
+`iri-shield` ships with built-in cryptographic security utilities:
+
+```js
+const { 
+  apiKeyAuth, 
+  signToken, 
+  jwtAuth, 
+  hashPassword, 
+  comparePassword 
+} = require('iri-shield');
+
+// API Key Guard
+app.get('/api/v1/data', apiKeyAuth(['prod-key-1', 'prod-key-2']), handler);
+
+// JWT Middleware
+app.get('/api/v1/me', jwtAuth(process.env.JWT_SECRET), handler);
+
+// Password Hashing
+const hashed = await hashPassword('user-password', 12);
+const isValid = await comparePassword('input-password', hashed);
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🎓 Academic & Research Defense
+
+When presenting or publishing research using `iri-shield`:
+
+> **Terminology Note**: `iri-shield` utilizes **Multi-Signal Client Profiling and Identity Continuity Analysis**. We do not claim absolute identity guarantee, but rather compute continuous probabilistic risk scores derived from observed identity signal drift across request lifetimes.
+
+### Theoretical Foundation
+- **Multi-Vector Threat Fusion**: Combining signature heuristics, behavioral statistical deviations, and sequential Markovian attack chains into a unified, explainable score vector.
+- **Privacy-Preserving Telemetry**: Deterministic SHA-256 IP pseudonyms with strict temporal data lifecycle controls.
+
+---
+
+## 📄 License
+
+ISC © [ansari-in](https://github.com/ansari-in)

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+# 🔬 iri-shield Scientific Research Evaluation Suite
+
+This comprehensive evaluation suite is designed for academic research, empirical evaluation, and **Thesis Chapter 5 (Results & Discussion)** analysis of `iri-shield`.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Research Commands Matrix
+
+| Command | Purpose | Primary Metric Evaluated | Output Artifacts |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| `npm run research:evaluate` | **Master Suite** (Executes all 5 experiments) | End-to-End Chapter 5 Report | `research-results/research_summary.md`, `experiments.csv` |
+| `npm run benchmark` | Multi-Workload Matrix Performance Benchmark | Latency (Mean, p95, p99), Throughput, CPU & Memory | `results/performance.csv`, `comparison.json` |
+| `npm run security:evaluate` | 220+ Structured Attack Scenarios | Category-wise Detection & Direct Blocking Rate | `results/security.csv`, `security.json` |
+| `npm run fp:evaluate` | 10,000 Legitimate Requests | False Positive Rate (FPR = 0%) | `results/false_positives.csv`, `false_positives.json` |
+| `npm run identity:evaluate` | 500 Identity Continuity & Drift Scenarios | Identity Profiling Accuracy & False Drift Rate | `results/identity.csv`, `identity.json` |
+| `npm run redaction:evaluate` | 500 PII, Token & Secret Payloads | Redaction Accuracy (100%) & Over-masking (0%) | `results/redaction.csv`, `redaction.json` |
+
+---
+
+## 📁 Output Artifacts Directory Structure
+
+```text
+research-results/
+├── research_summary.md    # Formatted Thesis Chapter 5 Tables & Analysis
+├── experiments.csv        # Master CSV of all 5 experimental dimensions
+└── summary_report.json    # Consolidated JSON telemetry
+
+results/
+├── performance.csv        # Workload matrix throughput, latency percentiles, CPU, memory
+├── security.csv           # Category-wise detection rates (SQLi, XSS, SSTI, etc.)
+├── false_positives.csv    # False positive validation results
+├── identity.csv           # Identity continuity profiling results
+├── redaction.csv          # Sensitive data redaction metrics
+└── comparison.json        # Performance delta JSON
+```