Impact Guard: Proactive Readiness Cybersecurity Service
Stop Reacting. Start Preparing
Traditional incident response retainers are reactive, leading to critical delays as responders scramble to understand your environment—significantly increasing the impact and cost of a breach.
Impact Guard is Argus Defense's solution.
It is a proactive security readiness service focused on strengthening your security posture through expert-led threat hunting and strategic advisory services. By prioritizing pre-incident preparedness, we ensure our expert team is deeply familiar with your environment, processes, and technology before an incident occurs.
The Impact Guard Advantage: Zero-Dollar Retainer & 30-Minute SLA
Impact Guard provides a zero-dollar retainer with a key benefit: a 30-minute Service Level Agreement (SLA) for incident response. This rapid response is facilitated by the pre-existing familiarity with your environment and processes gained through our proactive engagement, minimizing potential downtime
What You Get: The Three Pillars of Impact Guard
Foundational Assessments (Included Annually)
Cyber Assessment
40 Hours of assessment work to provide in-depth security assessment to identify risks and gaps.
Tabletop Exercise
Annual simulations to ensure both our team and yours are prepared and coordinated for real-world incidents (16 Hours).
Specialized Consulting (Choose 40 Hours)
Threat Hunting and Breach Assessment
Targeted exercises to uncover hidden malicious activity. Includes Intelligence-Driven Breach Assessments to proactively search for evidence of compromise using actionable intelligence (e.g., law enforcement, ransom scares)
Advisory Services
Strategic guidance on security architecture, compliance assessments, and incident response planning. Includes Risk Exposure Mitigation to help identify and mitigate critical external vulnerabilities
Continuous Readiness & Alignment
We integrate our expertise with your operational reality through comprehensive preparatory work:
Pre-Incident Preparedness: Environment Familiarization, Incident Response Workflow Development, and Documented IR Processes.
Attack Surface Profiling: An initial profile followed by a weekly automated cadence to maintain continuous visibility into external risks.
Alignment: Stakeholder Engagement and Toolset & Visibility Assessments to align key personnel and optimize existing security tools.
When the Crisis Hits:
Incident Response Services
In the event of a security incident, the Argus Defense team will rapidly engage to effectively manage and mitigate the impact. Our services include:
Triage and Analysis: Operators quickly assess the situation and determine the scope and impact of the incident.
Containment: Operators take immediate action to contain the incident, either by direct intervention (with authorization) or by providing expert advisement on necessary actions.
Eradication: Operators work with you to identify and develop a mitigation strategy for the root cause, providing guidance to reduce future risk.
Recovery Guidance: Operators provide recommendations to restore affected systems and data to a secure state. (Note: The actual execution of post-eradication activities, like rebuilding or restoring backups, is the client's responsibility ).
Impact Guard clients also receive discounted rates for any additional Incident Response hours required beyond the scope of the zero-dollar retainer
Why It Works: Key Differentiators
Ready to Enhance Your Security Readiness?
Contact us today to schedule your Impact Guard consultation