Compliance-ready logging.
No data leaves your network.

Auditors want proof that you're monitoring access, detecting threats, and preserving evidence. Arden gives you all three from your existing Windows event logs — without sending a single byte to the cloud. Fully offline. Fully auditable. Deploy in under 60 seconds.

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Built for the frameworks that matter.
Arden maps directly to the audit logging, access monitoring, and incident detection requirements in the most common compliance frameworks — out of the box, with no configuration.

CJIS Security Policy

Criminal Justice Information Services

Organizations handling criminal justice information must log and audit all access to CJI systems. CJIS also restricts cloud-based solutions unless they meet strict encryption and access control requirements. Arden runs entirely on-premise — no data leaves your network, ever.

5.4 Audit & Accountability — Continuous compliance audit log records every logon, account change, and privilege event with timestamps and user attribution
5.4.1.1 Events — All authentication, privilege escalation, account management, group membership, and policy changes logged to a rolling CSV audit trail
5.4.6 Audit Record Retention — Continuous CSV export plus emergency log preservation when log clearing is detected
5.10.1 Cloud Computing — No cloud dependency — fully offline operation eliminates cloud compliance burden

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

Healthcare organizations must implement technical safeguards to monitor access to systems containing ePHI. Most small clinics and practices can't afford a SIEM but still face the same compliance requirements as large hospital systems.

§164.312(b) Audit Controls — Continuous audit log captures every logon, privilege use, and account change — exportable CSV/JSON for auditors
§164.312(a) Access Controls — Monitors for unauthorized access patterns and credential misuse
§164.308(a)(6) Security Incident Procedures — Real-time threat detection with severity scoring and MITRE ATT&CK mapping
§164.312(c) Integrity Controls — Detects log tampering, audit policy changes, and evidence destruction

PCI DSS

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

Any business that processes, stores, or transmits cardholder data must log and monitor access to network resources. Restaurants, retail stores, and e-commerce operations running Windows POS systems need this coverage.

Req 10.2 Audit Trails — Records all authentication, account management, and privilege events to a continuous compliance audit log
Req 10.6 Log Review — Real-time compliance dashboard with category filtering, plus threat detection with severity scoring
Req 10.7 Audit Trail Retention — Rolling CSV audit log on disk, JSON export, and emergency log preservation ensure evidence availability
Req 11.5 Change Detection — Detects new services, scheduled tasks, registry changes, and configuration tampering

CMMC / NIST 800-171

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

Defense contractors and their entire supply chain must demonstrate security monitoring to maintain DoD contracts. Thousands of small manufacturers need to meet these requirements but can't justify enterprise security tooling.

AU.2.042 Audit Events — Continuous audit log records all auditable events defined in NIST 800-171: logon, privilege, account changes
AU.2.044 Audit Review — Dashboard aggregation and severity scoring surfaces anomalies without manual review
AU.3.049 Audit Protection — Emergency log preservation protects audit records from deletion or modification
SI.2.216 Monitor & Scan — Real-time detection of lateral movement, credential theft, and defense evasion

SOX

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Publicly traded companies and their auditors need to demonstrate that access to financial reporting systems is monitored and controlled. Accounting firms and finance departments running Windows need audit evidence for Section 404 compliance.

Section 404 Internal Controls — Monitors access to Windows systems hosting financial data
Access Monitoring — Continuous audit log tracks every privileged logon, account change, and group membership modification
Change Management — Detects unauthorized service installations, scheduled tasks, and configuration changes
Evidence Retention — Rolling CSV audit log with timestamps, user attribution, and source IP — ready for auditor review

FERPA

Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act

Schools, districts, and universities must protect student education records. IT departments managing Windows labs, administrative systems, and student information systems need logging and monitoring but rarely have dedicated security staff.

Access Monitoring — Continuous audit log records all authentication to systems containing student records
Unauthorized Access Detection — Alerts on brute force, credential theft, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
Incident Response — Real-time threat detection with severity scoring and MITRE ATT&CK mapping
Evidence Preservation — Rolling CSV audit log plus emergency log export when log clearing is detected
Budget-Friendly — Single executable, no infrastructure, no per-endpoint fees — fits education budgets
What auditors actually need to see.
Compliance isn't about having the most expensive tool. It's about demonstrating that you're monitoring, detecting, and preserving evidence. Arden gives you exactly that — with proof.

Zero Cloud Exposure

No telemetry, no cloud sync, no data exfiltration risk. Arden processes everything locally. Your logs never leave the machine they came from.

Emergency Log Preservation

When Arden detects log clearing, it automatically exports all alerts and events to a local preservation file — capturing the evidence before it's gone.

User Attribution

For critical detections like Defender being disabled or firewall changes, Arden traces the action back to the specific user account — even when Windows doesn't log it in the standard fields.

Continuous Audit Log

Every compliance-relevant event — logon, account change, privilege use, group modification — written to a rolling CSV file in real time. Export filtered views as CSV or JSON. Hand your auditor exactly what they need.

Security monitoring for every organization.
You don't need a SOC to have real security monitoring. Whether you're a one-person IT department or a managed service provider covering 200 clients, Arden scales to fit.

Law Enforcement & Government

CJIS-regulated agencies need audit logging without cloud exposure. Municipal IT departments, dispatch centers, courts, and corrections facilities running Windows can deploy Arden on air-gapped networks.

Healthcare & Clinics

Small practices and clinics face the same HIPAA requirements as hospital systems but without the security budget. Arden gives your IT team instant visibility into who's accessing what.

Managed Service Providers

Deploy Arden across every client network with the Network tier. One dashboard per client, agent deployment from a single console, and a compliance story you can sell as a managed service.

Defense Contractors

CMMC compliance is now a contract requirement. Small manufacturers in the defense supply chain need to demonstrate security monitoring without a six-figure SIEM investment.

Financial Services & Accounting

Credit unions, community banks, and accounting firms handle sensitive financial data on Windows systems. SOX and PCI requirements demand audit trails — Arden delivers them.

Education

School districts and universities manage thousands of Windows machines with minimal IT staff. FERPA requires student record protection — Arden monitors access at a price that fits education budgets.

Law Firms

Attorney-client privilege means your data can't go to the cloud. Law firms are also prime ransomware targets. Arden gives you fully offline threat detection and audit logging.

IT Departments Wearing the Security Hat

You manage the servers, the desktops, the printers, and now someone's asking about security. Arden gives your team real threat detection without needing to become security experts.

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No cloud required.

Deploy Arden on any Windows machine and get real audit logging, threat detection, and evidence preservation — the three things every compliance framework asks for.

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