EnGarde
EnGarde is a behavior-centered cybersecurity training platform that corrects employee actions in real time within tools like Slack, rather than relying on annual e-learning modules. The platform performs read-only SaaS audits, monitors device posture, and delivers contextual nudges and microlearning based on cognitive science principles like spaced repetition. It generates live risk scores and automatic compliance evidence for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification.
- Cybersecurity
- Software Only
- Regulatory & Compliance Technology
- Education Technology
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Traditional cybersecurity training relies on annual e-learning modules and one-off phishing tests, which produce compliance certificates rather than behavior change. Employees know the risks—78% are aware of phishing threats—yet they still click, and human error remains behind 68-83% of data breaches.
Solution
EnGarde provides a behavior-centered cybersecurity training platform that corrects employee actions in real time, directly inside tools like Slack where teams already work. The platform performs SaaS audits rather than relying on self-assessments, monitors user behavior, and delivers contextual nudges, quizzes, and microlearning content based on cognitive science principles like spaced repetition. It produces live risk scores, identifies which people, devices, and apps carry risk, and automatically generates compliance evidence and policy documents. The system is read-only by default for integrated tools, collects metadata rather than file contents, and is GDPR compliant with encryption in transit and at rest.
Target Audience
Primary customers are small and medium businesses, including SaaS startups, law firms, accounting practices, notaries, property managers, and city halls, as well as CISOs, IT managers, and HR leaders responsible for employee security training.
Features
- Real-time contextual coaching that delivers nudges and quizzes inside the workflow, correcting risky behavior at the moment it occurs
- SaaS monitoring that audits actual user activity across connected tools, including Drive shares, calendar exposure, mail auto-forwarding, and OAuth grants for shadow AI
- Device posture tracking via an osquery agent for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a Chrome agent for browser-extension inventory, with rules evaluated server-side
- Phishing simulations that test employees with realistic attack scenarios, including voice phishing with cloned voices and multi-channel sequences
- Automatic generation of compliance evidence, PSSI policies, and risk reports, plus a cartography view mapping people, apps, and devices
- Science-backed methodology using spaced repetition and microlearning informed by the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to improve knowledge retention
- Read-only Google scopes ensuring the platform observes metadata only and never accesses document or email contents