Arden is a lightweight, portable Windows event log analyzer. Detect threats with Arden Security. Prove compliance with Arden Comply. Or do both with Arden Complete. No cloud, no infrastructure, no dependencies.
Real-time threat detection across the full MITRE ATT&CK kill chain. Lateral movement, credential theft, persistence, and privilege escalation.
Continuous compliance auditing across 6 regulatory frameworks. Map Windows event activity to the controls auditors ask for.
Everything. Threat detection and compliance auditing in one platform. Detect the attack, then prove you were monitoring for it.
Arden detects the most common Windows attack techniques across all 8 phases of the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain — from stolen passwords to ransomware. Intelligent filtering suppresses normal Windows behavior automatically, so every alert means something.
| Capability | DIY (Event Viewer / Scripts) | Arden Security |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first insight | Hours of manual log review | ✓ Under 60 seconds |
| Threat detection | You need to know what to look for | ✓ MITRE ATT&CK mapped rules |
| Lateral movement visibility | Requires correlating logs across hosts | ✓ Detected automatically |
| Credential theft detection | Very difficult to spot manually | ✓ Kerberoasting, pass-the-hash, DCSync |
| Multi-host coverage | RDP into each machine | ✓ Agent deployment from one console |
| False positive management | None — every event is noise | ✓ Triage, suppress, track reasoning |
| Alert prioritization | None — all events look the same | ✓ Severity scoring + compound risk |
| Evidence export | Copy-paste from Event Viewer | ✓ One-click CSV & JSON export |
| Log clearing detection | You'd never know | ✓ Instant alert + auto-preservation |
| Setup | Build your own scripts | ✓ Single executable, zero dependencies |
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HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC, CJIS — they all require log monitoring. Here’s how Arden Comply maps Windows events to framework controls and generates PDF reports to help organize your evidence.
Arden is currently in development. Join the early access list to be notified when it launches — and get a discount on your first year.
Windows 10/11 • Server 2016+ • x64 • No runtime required
Named after the Ardennes — the forested region where Allied defenders held the line against a massive offensive in the winter of 1944. Arden is built for the same mission: when attackers breach the perimeter, you need to see what happened, how far they got, and where to cut them off.