Argus, an open-source agentic security platform, offers autonomous response
Original title: Argus – a free, open-source agentic security operations platform – MIT
Self-hosted and MIT-licensed, Argus ships autonomous response and pentesting off until operators opt in.
Argus is pitched as a free, self-hosted security operations platform that ingests cloud, identity, code, device and network data and can block attackers in seconds. AI agents investigate with read-only access and only propose changes; a broker enforces approvals, dry runs, rollback and a kill switch. The page also describes an AI gateway, shadow-AI discovery, an attack simulator and autonomous pentesting that stays inside an authorized scope.
Unconfirmed: The page is product marketing; independent tests of detection or response claims are not included.
- Autonomous response covers 27 one-click fixes and starts switched off.
- Integrations named include AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Okta, Entra and CrowdStrike.
- Playbooks log in shadow mode, then run only reversible actions with hourly caps.
- AI inputs are treated as untrusted and agents are tested against prompt injection.
- Audit records map to SOC 2, NIST 800-171 and ISO 27001.
From the original article
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Argus is a free, open-source security operations platform that watches your cloud, logins, code and devices around the clock, catches machine-speed attacks the moment they start, and shuts them down in seconds. AI does the legwork. Guardrails you control decide what it's allowed to touch.
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