Multi-cloud DSPM

Know where your sensitive data lives, before someone else does.

Argus runs a lightweight agent inside your cloud, finds every place sensitive data lives, and shows you exactly what's exposed - without your data ever leaving your environment.

  • Data stays in your VPC
  • No inbound ports
  • 5-minute deploy
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Argus dashboard: risk score, compliance posture across seven frameworks, top risk datastores, and live security alerts.Argus dashboard: risk score, compliance posture across seven frameworks, top risk datastores, and live security alerts.
How it works

From deploy to findings in three steps.

No data leaves your environment. No inbound ports opened. No sample sets uploaded to a third-party. Just structured findings - that you control.

01

Deploy the agent

A single deployment module drops the agent into your cloud environment. No firewall changes, no inbound ports, no shared credentials. It's running in minutes.

02

Discover & classify

Argus finds every datastore - S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift - and intelligently scans the files most likely to hold sensitive data. Less noise, faster results.

03

Act with confidence

You see exactly what's exposed, where, and how risky it is. Findings map to compliance frameworks automatically. No more flying blind on data sprawl.

Architecture

Your data never leaves your environment.

A split control-plane / data-plane design that satisfies the strictest data residency reviews. Customer data is processed inside the customer's VPC; only structured, non-reversible findings cross the boundary.

ARGUS CONTROL PLANEDashboards · Alerts · ComplianceFindings only · HTTPSFindings only · HTTPSCUSTOMER VPC · AArgus AgentS3RDSDynamoDBRedshiftRead-only accessYour data stays hereCUSTOMER VPC · BArgus AgentS3RDSDynamoDBRedshiftYour encryption keysOnly insights leave

No inbound ports

The agent makes outbound HTTPS calls only. Your perimeter stays closed - no firewall changes, no VPN, no public endpoint to defend.

Read-only, least privilege

It reads what it needs and nothing else. Permissions are scoped, rotatable and revocable in one click - no static keys, no shared secrets, and it can't change anything in your environment.

Insights, not data

Only structured findings - counts, categories, risk levels - cross the boundary. The sensitive data itself never leaves. Throttled scanning and automatic backoff keep it production-safe.

The platform

Everything you need to know your data.

Discovery, classification, risk scoring, alerting and compliance mapping - one control plane your security team actually works in.

Every datastore, found and classified

S3, RDS, DynamoDB and Redshift discovered from a single agent, then scanned where sensitive data is most likely to live - so you get coverage without the noise.

  • PII, financial, health, credentials and IP detected out of the box
  • CSV, JSON, PDF, DOCX, XLSX and more - record-aware sampling
  • Every finding carries a detection and statistical confidence
Argus datastore inventory listing S3 buckets, RDS instances, DynamoDB tables and Redshift clusters with risk level, data categories and scan status.Argus datastore inventory listing S3 buckets, RDS instances, DynamoDB tables and Redshift clusters with risk level, data categories and scan status.

Compliance that maps itself

Findings tie to the controls they touch across seven frameworks, with the affected datastores and an estimated exposure attached - so an audit question has an answer, not a spreadsheet.

  • GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2
  • Control-level status derived from scan data, not questionnaires
  • Export an evidence pack for auditors in one click
Argus compliance page showing per-framework scores, violations by framework, severity breakdown and control-level detail.Argus compliance page showing per-framework scores, violations by framework, severity breakdown and control-level detail.

Risk you can triage by impact

Every datastore is scored on what it holds, how it's configured and who can reach it - then ranked, so you start with the thing that actually matters.

  • Top risk drivers explain what is pushing the score up
  • Identity risk: over-privileged, stale, external and no-MFA access
  • Lifecycle alerts with severity, status and full attribution
Argus risk assessment showing overall risk score, risk distribution, top risk drivers, top risk datastores and top risk identities.Argus risk assessment showing overall risk score, risk distribution, top risk drivers, top risk datastores and top risk identities.
Compliance

Mapped to the frameworks that matter.

Argus maps what it finds to the controls each framework covers, derived from scan data rather than a questionnaire. Export an evidence pack for auditors in one click.

GDPR
EU privacy
HIPAA
US health
PCI DSS
Card data
SOX
Financial
ISO 27001
InfoSec
SOC 2
Trust criteria
CCPA
California
FAQ

Answers to the questions security teams ask first.

Does any of our data ever leave our environment?
No. The agent runs in your VPC, scans datastores in your account, and only sends back structured findings - counts, categories, confidence scores. Raw bytes, sample contents, and sensitive payloads stay in your environment.
What permissions does the agent need?
Read-only S3 ListBucket / GetObject, RDS Describe* and limited query, DynamoDB Scan with throttling, and Redshift read-only. The IAM policy ships with the Terraform module - review it, narrow it, sign off on it.
How does the sampling actually decide what to scan?
A weighted scoring model considers file path, name, size, content-type hints, and bucket tags. A LightGBM classifier trained on labeled examples ranks files by likelihood of containing sensitive data. Adaptive limits cap scan time per bucket; stratified sampling ensures fair coverage across prefixes.
How long does it take to deploy?
Roughly five minutes of setup work, plus the time it takes for your usual deployment pipeline to apply. Most teams are running their first scan within an hour of starting.
Does it support Azure or GCP?
AWS today; Azure (Blob, SQL, Cosmos DB) is on the roadmap, GCP after that. The agent's provider abstraction is designed for additional clouds - adding one is integration work, not architecture work.
What's the deployment model - SaaS, hybrid, on-prem?
Hybrid by design. The control plane (auth, dashboards, audit, RBAC) runs as SaaS. The data plane (the scanning agent) runs in your VPC. Customer data only touches the data plane; only structured findings cross to the control plane.

See where your sensitive data lives.

Talk with us about your environment. We'll show you how Argus works, scope a pilot, and help you get visibility fast - without any sales-process drag.