Financial services
Converge fraud and security telemetry across payment rails, trading platforms and core banking. Aligned to PCI DSS 4.0, SOX ITGC, DORA and NYDFS Part 500.
Financial servicesSolutions
Security that fits how your industry actually operates
Guardian Sentinel is one platform, but no two security programmes look the same. A regional hospital, a global custodian bank and a 400-store retailer face different regulators, different attackers and different definitions of downtime. Start from your sector, your use case or your team size — and see exactly what deploys, what it detects and what it replaces.
6,800+
Organisations protected across 142 countries
43
Of the Fortune 100 run Guardian Sentinel
4.2T
Security events analysed every week
18s
Median time from first signal to containment
99.99%
Platform availability, measured over 36 months
One platform, every surface
Every solution on this page is the same engine, tuned differently
Guardian Sentinel ingests telemetry from endpoints, network sensors, cloud control planes, identity providers and data stores into a single behavioural graph. Industry solutions do not bolt on separate products — they change which detections are prioritised, which playbooks run automatically, which evidence is retained and how long, and which compliance reports are generated on a schedule.
- One agent, one console. A single 42 MB sensor covers Windows, macOS, Linux, Kubernetes nodes and virtual desktop images.
- Pre-tuned detection packs. Sector-specific content shipped and maintained by Guardian Labs — no six-month tuning project.
- Compliance mapped at ingest. Every detection carries its PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001 control references.
- Deploy where policy requires. Multi-tenant SaaS, sovereign region, private cloud, on-premises or fully air-gapped.
By industry
Built around your regulators, your adversaries and your uptime
Each industry solution ships with its own detection content, response playbooks, retention defaults and compliance report pack, maintained by Guardian Labs and updated as regulation and adversary tradecraft change.
Healthcare
Protect PHI and connected medical devices without touching clinical availability. HIPAA Security Rule mapping, IoMT discovery and ransomware containment.
HealthcareGovernment & defence
FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 authorised, CMMC-ready, with air-gapped deployment and nation-state adversary tracking from Guardian Labs.
Government & defenceEnergy & utilities
Passive OT and ICS visibility across Purdue levels 0–3, with NERC CIP evidence collection and safe-mode response that never interrupts a process.
Energy & utilitiesRetail & e-commerce
POS fleet protection at store scale, client-side script integrity for checkout, and capacity that absorbs a 9× peak-season traffic surge.
Retail & e-commerceManufacturing
Keep production lines running through an intrusion. IT/OT boundary monitoring, supplier access control and recovery that respects change windows.
ManufacturingTechnology & SaaS
Secure the software supply chain from commit to runtime: build pipeline integrity, secret sprawl, container drift and multi-tenant blast-radius control.
Technology & SaaSEducation
Defend open campuses, BYOD populations and research networks under FERPA, with protection for grant-funded IP and student information systems.
EducationBy use case
Or start from the problem that is on the board agenda this quarter
Most Guardian deployments begin with one urgent outcome and expand from there. Every use case below is delivered by the same platform licence — there is no separate SKU to buy, migrate to, or re-deploy.
Stop ransomware before encryption
Behavioural detection catches mass file operations, shadow-copy deletion and driver abuse within seconds. Rollback restores affected files from the sensor's local journal without touching backups.
Typical result: zero successful encryption events across 3,100 protected estates in the last 24 months.
Endpoint securityShut down credential-based intrusion
Session-level analytics detect token theft, MFA fatigue, impossible travel and privilege escalation against Entra ID, Okta, Ping and on-premises Active Directory — then revoke sessions automatically.
Typical result: 94% of identity attacks contained before the second authenticated action.
Identity protectionClose the gap between build and runtime
Posture findings, IaC scanning and runtime workload protection share one risk model, so an exposed bucket with an exploitable workload attached is ranked above 400 theoretical misconfigurations.
Typical result: 82% reduction in cloud findings that reach an engineer's backlog.
Cloud securityTurn continuous monitoring into evidence
Controls are evaluated continuously and mapped to PCI DSS 4.0, HIPAA, NIST 800-53 Rev 5, ISO 27001:2022, DORA and CMMC. Auditor packs export as signed PDF and machine-readable OSCAL.
Typical result: audit evidence preparation cut from 6 weeks to 2 days.
Compliance advisoryReclaim your analysts from the alert queue
The Sentinel AI Analyst investigates every alert, assembles the full attack narrative, and closes benign activity with a written rationale your auditors can read. Humans see the 3% that matter.
Typical result: 91% of tier-one triage handled without an analyst touching the console.
Automation & responseSee data leaving before it is gone
Content classification joins user behaviour so bulk export to personal cloud storage, unusual database extraction and pre-resignation staging are caught as intent, not as a keyword match.
Typical result: 4.7× more true-positive exfiltration events than pattern-only DLP.
Data protectionRetire the tools you are paying twice for
Sentinel replaces separate EDR, NDR, CSPM, CWPP, ITDR and UEBA products with one licence, one data pipeline and one console — and imports your existing detection logic during migration.
Typical result: 5.4 tools retired and 38% lower total security spend in year one.
See pricingContain suppliers without blocking them
Every vendor, contractor and managed-service identity gets a scoped access envelope. Behaviour outside that envelope is contained automatically and reported to the owning business unit.
Typical result: supplier-originated incidents down 76% within two quarters.
Network securityMake zero trust a measurable programme
Continuous device posture, identity assurance and micro-segmentation scored against the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, with a quarterly maturity delta you can put in front of a board.
Typical result: one maturity stage advanced per two quarters, evidenced automatically.
Security consultingBy organisation size
The same detection engine, sized to the team that runs it
What changes with scale is not the quality of protection — it is how much of the operating burden Guardian carries for you, and how much governance structure the platform needs to expose.
Small & mid-sized business
For teams where security is one person's half-time responsibility. Sentinel ships with policy already set, response fully automatic, and Guardian's SOC watching the queue you do not have time to read.
- Guided deployment in under a day, no professional services required
- Autonomous containment on by default, with one-click undo
- Managed detection and response included from seat one
- Cyber-insurance attestation pack generated monthly
Mid-market & growth
For a security function of three to fifteen people who own real risk but cannot staff a 24/7 rota. Automate the night shift, keep the decisions, and grow into full self-operation when you are ready.
- Co-managed model: your analysts by day, Guardian's SOC overnight
- Custom detection authoring with version control and staged rollout
- SSO, SCIM provisioning and granular role-based access control
- Board reporting pack with quarterly risk-posture deltas
Enterprise & global
For federated security organisations running multiple business units, regulators and data-residency regimes at once — with subsidiaries that need autonomy and a group CISO who needs one number.
- Multi-tenant hierarchies with delegated administration per region
- Data residency in 14 sovereign regions, enforced at ingest
- Unlimited retention, streaming export and a documented open API
- Named resident engineers and a 15-minute critical response SLA
Not sure which tier fits? Sizing follows protected identities and workloads, not headcount. A 300-person fintech with 40,000 cloud workloads is priced and operated like an enterprise. Compare plans or talk to an architect.
Find your solution
Three answers, one recommended deployment
Tell us your sector, your scale and the outcome you are being measured on. We will send back a scoped architecture, a module list and a realistic 90-day plan — reviewed by a solutions architect, not generated from a template.
Sample output — regional bank, 12,000 identities
Recommended deployment
| Phase | Module | Primary control objective |
|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1–2 | Endpoint & identity | PCI DSS 5.2, 8.3 — malware defence and strong authentication |
| Weeks 3–5 | Network & segmentation | PCI DSS 1.3 — cardholder data environment isolation |
| Weeks 6–8 | Cloud posture & workloads | DORA Art. 9 — ICT protection and prevention |
| Weeks 9–12 | Data protection & reporting | SOX ITGC, DORA Art. 17 — change control and incident reporting |
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Projected coverage at day 90
Modelled from 214 comparable deployments in the same sector and size band. Coverage is measured as the share of MITRE ATT&CK techniques observed in that sector with at least one validated detection.
Initial access96%
Credential access93%
Lateral movement91%
Exfiltration88%
Impact & destruction97%
Figures are medians from Guardian deployment telemetry, January 2024 – March 2026. Your architecture review will produce specific numbers.
Measured outcomes
What changes in the first year, by sector
Mean time to contain is the metric that survives every board conversation, because it is the one that determines whether an intrusion becomes an incident. Here is the median improvement customers report twelve months after go-live.
-68%
Fewer alerts reaching a human analyst
Median across all sectors
5.4
Point products retired per deployment
EDR, NDR, CSPM, UEBA, ITDR
-38%
Lower total security tooling spend in year one
Licence plus operating cost
2 days
To assemble a full audit evidence pack
Down from a six-week average
Deployment
How a Guardian rollout actually runs
Whichever solution you start from, the path is the same. No forklift migration, no parallel-run purgatory, and no requirement to rip out your existing stack before you have proof it is safe to.
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Architecture review
A solutions architect maps your estate, regulators, data-residency constraints and existing controls. You get a written design and a sizing model before anything is installed — typically inside five business days.
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Sensor deployment
The unified sensor rolls out through your existing management tooling in detect-only mode. Customers commonly reach 90% coverage of a 20,000-device estate in under two weeks with no user-visible impact.
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Tuning & parallel run
Sentinel runs alongside your incumbent tools and imports their detection logic. Guardian Labs benchmarks both, and you review the difference in coverage before enabling autonomous response.
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Autonomy & handover
Response playbooks switch on tier by tier, with scoped blast radius and one-click undo. Decommission the tools Sentinel replaced, and take the first quarterly posture report to your board.
Median time to first true-positive detection: 4 hours 12 minutes. Across the last 500 deployments, more than a third of customers found an active, previously undetected intrusion during the parallel-run phase. Read the case studies.
We evaluated Guardian against two incumbents in a 90-day bake-off across 31,000 endpoints in eleven countries. Sentinel caught two live intrusions the others missed entirely, and it did it in detect-only mode during week three. The consolidation case was strong; the detection case ended the debate.
Marta Oyelaran
Group CISO, Northbank Financial Group
Proof before procurement
Every evaluation includes an adversary-emulation exercise run by Guardian Labs against your own estate, using the tradecraft of the threat groups that actually target your sector.
- 30-day proof of value on production systems
- Side-by-side detection comparison with your incumbent
- Written findings report you keep, whatever you decide
Independently assessed
100% technique coverage with zero configuration changes and zero delayed detections in the most recent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation.
See customer resultsNorthbank
Meridian Health
Halcyon Retail
Arclight Energy
Vantage Logistics
Cobalt Systems
Go deeper
Research and reference material by sector
2026 Threat Landscape Report
Breakout time fell to 41 minutes. Guardian Labs breaks down what changed in adversary tradecraft, sector by sector, and what it costs to respond too slowly.
DownloadHow Northbank consolidated six tools into one
A 31,000-endpoint, eleven-country migration completed in nineteen weeks, with mean time to contain cut from 6 hours to 11 minutes.
Read the case studyChoosing a platform without a two-year migration
Three security leaders discuss how they scoped, tested and sequenced platform consolidation without pausing their detection programme.
Watch on demandCommon questions
Before you pick a starting point
Do industry solutions cost more than the base platform?
No. Detection packs, compliance mappings and report templates are included with every Guardian Sentinel licence. Pricing is driven by protected identities and workloads, not by which content packs you enable. See pricing for the full model.
We operate in several sectors. Can we run more than one pack?
Yes, and most large customers do. Packs are applied per organisational unit, so a conglomerate can run the healthcare pack across its hospital group, the retail pack across its pharmacy estate and the financial pack across its insurance arm — with one group-level console above all three.
Can we start with one use case and expand later?
That is the most common path. Around 70% of customers begin with endpoint and identity, then add cloud, network and data protection over the following two to three quarters. Because it is one platform, expansion is a licence change and a policy switch — not a new deployment project.
What happens to our existing SIEM and detection content?
Guardian imports Sigma, YARA, Splunk SPL and Microsoft KQL detection logic during migration and reports which rules are already covered by native detections. Most customers keep their SIEM for log aggregation and compliance archive while Sentinel becomes the detection and response layer. See integrations for supported connectors.
Do you support air-gapped or sovereign-only deployments?
Yes. Guardian runs in multi-tenant SaaS, in fourteen sovereign regions, in your own private cloud, on-premises, and fully air-gapped with offline intelligence updates delivered on signed media. Air-gapped deployments are most common in government and defence and in energy and utilities.
How quickly can we see value if we are mid-audit or mid-incident?
Emergency deployments are routine. Guardian's incident response team can deploy sensors and begin hunting within four hours of engagement, and the resulting telemetry converts directly into a permanent deployment if you choose to keep it. Call the breach hotline at any hour.
Start from your industry. Finish with fewer incidents.
See Guardian Sentinel configured for your sector, on your estate, with your regulators in mind. Thirty minutes with an architect, or a full 30-day proof of value on production systems.