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Defense line 1 · At the edge · AI-powered real-time defense

What is known
dies at the edge.

Every session, every file, every connection inspected inline, at the point of presence closest to the user. Janus tells you which catch mattered. And with Argus Collective Defense, a threat seen at one customer becomes known to all of them.

Inline inspection (SSE) · LiveJanus · LiveArgus Collective Defense · Rolling out
Inspect · Triage · Share

Not one more box.
Three things that already work together.

Line 1 sits where traffic enters and leaves your organization: at the edge. It is not a new appliance. It combines the inline security services you run on the Open Systems platform with two AI agents that make the edge faster and smarter.

Inspect: the Security Service Edge checks web sessions, files, email and connections inline, against curated threat intelligence that includes zero-day indicators. Triage: Janus, the AI specialist for the web and email gateway, tells you in one sentence whether a catch mattered. Share: Argus turns a threat pattern seen at one customer into protection for all of them, patterns only, never customer data.

Inspect

Every session, file and connection, inline at the nearest point of presence. Live.

Triage

Janus surfaces the one real attempt in a day of routine blocks. Live.

Share

Argus: seen at one customer, known to all. Rolling out.

Inspect · Security Service Edge · Live

What happens to every connection.

Inspection runs inline, at the point of presence closest to the user, with no backhauling to a central data center. Every check below is a Live service of the Open Systems SSE, activated and enforced from one Mission Control portal.

Simplified. Which checks run depends on the services you use and your policy.

One indicator, every channel: an indicator seen in mail is already blocked on the web, because indicators land in one central database and enforcement follows across web, DNS and email.

Triage · Janus · Live

Every catch answers one question:
did it matter?

Your gateways catch things all day: a blocked download, a quarantined attachment, a SaaS app someone tried to use. Janus, the AI specialist for the web and email gateway, triages every catch and separates the routine from the incident.

  • Triages every Secure Web and Email Gateway catch: phishing, risky SaaS, blocked downloads
  • Tells you in one sentence whether it mattered, and why
  • Surfaces the real attempt hiding in a day of routine blocks
  • Links straight to the evidence in the portal, no console-diving

Janus reports to Lucy, so you ask one question in one conversation. Meet Janus

Share · Argus Collective Defense · Rolling out

Weak alone.
Loud together.

An inline check is only as good as what counts as known. And an attacker probing four companies looks harmless to each of them: a rejected SSH login here, a failed sign-in there, a blocked download, a blocked web attack.

Argus sees all four. It correlates weak signals from all customers into one verdict, and an attacker seen at one customer is blocked at every customer’s edge. Patterns only, never customer data, and only where compliance allows.

  1. 01 · SignalsWeak signals from the edge, across all customers, scored in real time.
  2. 02 · VerdictAI judges weigh the evidence like a security analyst and explain why.
  3. 03 · Block everywhereMalicious? Blocked at every customer’s edge, not just the one that was hit.
Illustrative.
Argus · What you get

Machine speed.
Your call.

  • Learns across our entire customer base: a suspicious signal seen at one customer protects all the others.
  • You see your own traffic live: IPs, paths, the full trail.
  • Reacts in real time: counters automatically or waits for human release. Your call.
  • Push notifications included.
  • Built to keep false positives low, so every alert is worth reading.
  • Every verdict explained: the evidence and the reasoning come with it, not just a score.
  • Nothing sticks by mistake: blocks expire automatically and can be undone.

Argus is a separate offering that you choose to enable, available with the AIOps and Mission Control operating models. It is rolling out now; ask us about the current scope. Compare the operating models

Collective defense has a history here

We have shared what we block for years.

Argus is the AI-native step of something Open Systems has done for a long time. Since 2018, blocking one malicious domain is automatically enforced across email, web and DNS. Indicators of compromise, including zero-day, zero-hour and zero-minute ones, are distributed to every edge as they arrive.

A key advantage is our ability to aggregate and anonymize data across multiple customers. This enables us to detect threats early and implement preventive measures for others, forming a collective defense that continuously improves with each new insight.
Markus Ehrenmann, CTO, Open Systems
Line 1 and Line 2

The edge stops the known.
The inside catches the rest.

No edge stops everything. That is why there is a second line: Apate fills your network with credible decoys, and any touch of a decoy exposes the intruder who got through.

Line 1 · Real-time defense
Line 2 · Active deception
Where
At the edge: every session, file and connection, inline
Inside your network: decoys among your real systems
Stops
What is known, to you or to any other customer
The intruder who got through anyway
Signal
A verdict on every check, triaged by Janus
Any touch of a decoy is a real signal, not noise
Response
Blocks automatically or waits for human release
Argus blocks the attacker at every customer’s edge, at the level you choose
Agents
Janus (Live) · Argus (Rolling out)
Apate (Rolling out)

Meet Apate, Line 2

Straight answers on status

What is live, what is rolling out.

We would rather lose a deal on that answer than win one on a demo of something that does not ship.

Straight answers

Questions, answered.

Is every connection really inspected?

Every session, file and connection passes the edge inline. What is checked depends on the services and policy you choose. Categories that must not be inspected, such as banking or health, are excluded from TLS inspection by policy, and some applications legitimately refuse inspection.

Does Collective Defense share my data with other customers?

No. Argus shares threat patterns, never customer data, and cross-customer learning only happens where compliance allows.

Does Argus block automatically?

That is your call. Argus counters automatically or waits for human release, and push notifications are included either way.

Can a block be undone?

Yes. Blocks expire automatically, and you can undo one at any time. You also decide whether Argus blocks on its own or only gives you its verdict.

What is the difference between Janus and Argus?

Janus triages what your own gateways caught and tells you whether it mattered. Argus looks across the customer base and turns a pattern seen elsewhere into protection for you. Janus is live, Argus is rolling out.

Which operating model do I need?

The inline security services are part of the platform. Argus is a separate offering, available with the AIOps and Mission Control operating models.

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