Meet Argus. Active Generative Deception.
▸ Argus is an Open Systems AI agent. Its job: active generative deception.
Argus turns your network into a minefield. It plants AI-powered decoy services natively at the Internal Network, lures attackers in, wastes their time and compute, and blocks them worldwide the moment they're detected. No appliances, no endpoint agents, no false positives.
Static defenses lose.
The economics of attack have flipped. Adversaries strike constantly and cheaply, while defenders stay locked into a reactive, perimeter-first model, forced to be right every time when the attacker only has to be right once.
Defenders are always one step behind
The attacker picks the time, the target and the method. Defenders can only react once the perimeter is already breached, so the initiative sits with the attacker, not with you.
Attacks are cheaper, and massively scalable
Adversaries can scan and exploit thousands of systems at machine speed. What once required expertise now takes a script and a few cents of compute, and leaves defenders little time to react.
Alert fatigue buries the real threat
Traditional detection floods SOC teams with low-fidelity, false-positive-heavy alerts. Analysts tune out, response slows, and the one signal that actually matters gets missed.
Deception was supposed to fix this. Legacy honeypots didn't.
Standalone honeypots promised to turn the tables on attackers. In practice they were easy to spot and painful to deploy:
Static scripts
Legacy honeypots use fixed templates. Automated tools fingerprint them and skip straight past, so the trap never springs.
Deployment friction
Standalone vendors like Attivo and Illusive required new VMs, agents and routing changes, months of re-architecture before a single decoy went live.
AI decoys that come alive on contact.
Instead of waiting at the perimeter, Argus seeds the Internal Network with AI decoys tailored to your real environment. Argus watches your traffic, plants the decoys, engages attackers, and closes the loop.
Zero false positives
No legitimate user or app has any reason to touch a decoy, so any connection is inherently suspicious. High-fidelity alerts, no noise. Argus's job isn't detection, that's already solved, it's prolonging engagement and extracting intent.
The generative "Turing test"
With an LLM behind the port, the decoy is no longer a static script. Argus hallucinates a plausible environment on demand, different every time, so a novel exploit gets a novel, convincing response. Every minute Argus strings an attacker along burns their time and compute.
Frictionless, passive discovery
No aggressive scanning. Argus passively observes existing edge traffic to fingerprint the real environment, then plants decoys tailored to it, without sending a single probe. It never trips internal IDS, disrupts fragile legacy IoT, or violates compliance rules.
▸ The generative decoy engine is Argus. It watches your traffic, plants decoys, engages attackers, and closes the loop.
Attacker → edge → cloud → enforcement.
Passive discovery shapes the decoys, Argus brings them to life in the cloud, and enforcement closes the loop, on one platform.
Probes a fake service
An adversary scans the edge and connects to a shadow port that looks like a real, exploitable service.
Shadow ports
The SASE gateway opens decoy ports alongside the real ones and transparently tunnels the attacker's traffic onward.
Hallucinated environment
Argus strings the attacker along with a convincing, generated environment, wasting their time and mapping their tools.
Global blocklist
The moment intent is clear, the block propagates worldwide, the same attacker is stopped in every location at once.
▸ Passive discovery shapes the decoys, Argus brings them to life, and enforcement closes the loop.
Walls, or a minefield.
Standalone deception vendors can bolt a honeypot onto your network. They can't do it without appliances, at cloud scale, and wired straight into global enforcement. That's the moat.
Deception without appliances
We already own the edge gateways. Argus ships as a software feature overlay, no new hardware, no agents, no re-architecture. It just starts answering traffic on unused ports.
Thin edge, thick cloud
Running capable LLMs on edge hardware is slow and costly. Argus securely tunnels attacker traffic (gRPC / mTLS) to the Open Systems cloud, where the heavy decoy engine lives, cloud-scale compute, cheap edge hardware.
Global enforcement loop
Standalone vendors can only alert. Because Argus sits on the same platform as firewalling and Threat Protection, an attacker probing a fake SSH port in London is blocked across New York and Tokyo instantly.
▸ Because we own the network and the security, we can act where others can only alert.
Scoped engineering,
not hand-waving.
Every strong claim is paired with the mechanism that backs it. Here are the constraints we've scoped, honestly.
- ▸ Right protocols first. V1 scopes to text-based application-layer protocols, HTTP/APIs and interactive SSH/Telnet/FTP, where LLMs excel. Binary protocols (RDP, SMB, industrial) fall back to static templates.
- ▸ Latency matters. A fast inference engine with a small, fine-tuned model, plus cached responses to common scanner probes (Nmap, Nuclei), answers inside a scanner's tight timeout.
- ▸ Escalation by intent. A simple ping earns a temporary drop; a reverse-shell attempt earns a permanent global IP block. Severity scales with demonstrated malice.
Four components, one platform.
Two live at the Internal Network, one in the Open Systems cloud, one in Threat Protection. Together they discover, deceive and contain, without you deploying anything new.
Passive Discovery
Observes traffic to map real hosts and exposed ports, so decoys blend in. No active pinging.
Honeypot Proxy
Opens shadow ports alongside the real ones and transparently tunnels attacker traffic to the decoy engine.
Argus Decoy Engine
Processes payloads, hallucinates responses and maps attacker tools, cloud-scale compute, cheap edge hardware.
Enforcement
Propagates firewall blocks back to the edge, globally, so one detection stops the attacker everywhere.
Stop building taller walls.
Let Argus turn the network into a minefield, decoys that trap attackers, and containment that spans the globe the instant intent is clear.