Stop the exfiltration.
Catch the intrusion.
Modern defense fails in two places: nobody stops exfiltration early enough, and nobody explains noisy runtime behavior fast enough. VaultGuardian is building both halves of that answer.
Encryption is the distraction. Data theft is the attack.
Our analysis of 8 high-profile breaches from 2023–2025 reveals a pattern the industry is ignoring: attackers exfiltrate first, encrypt second — if they encrypt at all.
6 TB exfiltrated. 192.7 million records. No MFA on the Citrix portal. Ransomware came after the data was already gone.
$2.5B total costA 10-minute phone call. Okta Super Admin. Data exfiltrated via Mega.nz and Dropbox before ransomware hit 100+ servers.
$100M total costTicketmaster (560M records), AT&T (109M records), Santander. All from stolen credentials. No encryption deployed — pure data theft.
669M+ records stolen58 million individuals affected. Zero-day SQL injection. No ransomware deployed. Pure exfiltration at industrial scale.
58M+ individuals exposedSocial engineering of an outsourced IT vendor. 20-day dwell time. Complete database stolen. No encryption. Paid $15M ransom for data alone.
$15M ransom paidRussian SVR compromised a test tenant, pivoted to production via OAuth, read senior leadership email for 7 weeks. No encryption. Pure espionage.
Source code accessedIn the 8 breach case studies highlighted here, only 2 involved encryption.
In every case, exfiltration happened first or was the entire attack. Detection came from manual investigation, outside reporting, or the attack itself — not automated tooling.
Deterministic where systems demand certainty.
Adaptive where analysts need context.
Two security products built for two different failure points. One stops the theft. One helps you understand the intrusion.
VaultDEC-1
Inline Layer 2 bridge. Deterministic egress enforcement.
Monitors upload traffic with deterministic thresholds. When exfiltration is detected, the connection is severed in milliseconds. No cloud. No AI. No guesswork. Pure math on the wire.
Observer
Detects attacks. Verifies outcomes.
Watches container logs in real time, classifies suspicious activity using AI, and captures what the server actually returned. Doesn't just detect attack attempts — verifies outcomes, suppresses false positives, and alerts only when something meaningful happened.
When did they find out?
Real detection times from real breaches. None were caught by automated security tooling.
Severs the connection at the moment of exfiltration
Classifies the intrusion attempt and verifies the outcome
Three layers. Three different threats.
No single product stops everything. Your infrastructure needs defense at every layer — behavior, egress, and persistence.
Observer
Watches every log line. Classifies suspicious behavior using AI. Captures evidence of what the server actually returned. Catches the intrusion attempt before it becomes exfiltration.
Private betaVaultDEC-1
Deterministic egress enforcement at the network level. If an attacker tries to upload your data, the connection is severed in milliseconds. The kill event doubles as instant breach detection.
Pre-order openImmutable Snapshots
ZFS, btrfs, or WORM storage. If an attacker encrypts your files, yesterday's snapshot is untouched. Well-understood and widely deployed. You probably already have this.
Many solutions existWhere data loss is not an option
Backup Infrastructure
Protect NAS, SAN, and dedicated backup servers. Snapshots protect against encryption. DEC-1 protects against exfiltration. Observer catches the intrusion that triggered it.
Docker / Container Hosts
Observer watches every container's stdout/stderr without agents or sidecars. Classifies threats, captures evidence, learns what's normal for your deployment.
Healthcare & Compliance
Change Healthcare lost 192.7M patient records. Hardware-enforced egress control with auditable logs. Observer adds evidence-backed alerting for compliance documentation.
Protect your infrastructure
DEC-1 for egress enforcement. Observer for log intelligence. Or both — they're designed to work together.