Argonaut Cyber Blog

Field Notes

On federal CAASM, continuous authorization, and building security tooling for the hardest environments.

Compliance & cATO

Continuous ATO Is a Data Problem

cATO does not stall on policy. It stalls on data: real-time asset state, continuous evidence, and automated control assessment that no traditional tool holds together. Here is how to think about it, and why the fix is a data-integrity problem before it is a paperwork one.

Zachary Bennefield · June 27, 2026 · 6 min read →

Deployment

Why We Ship One Binary

One self-contained artifact that runs from an air-gapped enclave to commercial cloud, no orchestration required. What that buys an operator on day one.

Coming soon

Federal Crypto

Being Honest About FIPS

CAVP certificates and CMVP module validation are not the same thing. Why founders selling to federal should state their crypto status precisely, and how to verify ours.

Coming soon

Identity

The Attack Surface Nobody Maps

Active Directory is an attack graph, not a directory. First-party, agentless collection of the identity attack surface in the same graph as your assets and compliance.

Coming soon