"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be..." - John Wooden

If we've learned anything from the past few years, it is that traditional approaches to information security are patently flawed and inadequate. Effective information security practices necessitate a focused and fluid approach based on constant enumeration and reduction of attack surface in accordance with the evolving techniques of adversaries. Prevention is not tenable, nor realistic. We can only hope to raise the level of effort required of our adversaries, and be well positioned to detect and respond to attacks.

The industry is broken and is deperately in need of fresh and effective approaches. Ares exists to provide such insight.

About Us

We provide our clients with services and consulting in the area of threat and vulnerability management at enterprise-scale.

Our initial aim is to assist our clients to understand the nature of the attack surface that they expose to a myriad of adversaries. With this attack surface enumerated, we can then work with our clients to develop strategies and implement measures to reduce exposure as far as is feasible. We provide practical suggestions and recommendations to harden the attack surface and remediate flaws, establishing a baseline, and making the adversary have to work much harder to effect compromise. Once a baseline has been established, effective monitoring and response measures can be developed and put in place to quickly detect and respond to attacks in progress.

We work with our clients to take them from a reactive information security program to a proactive and agile environment.

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Why Ares?

It is clear in today's information security landscape that the attacker has the advantage and is making the defensive security professional's life incredibly painful.

We believe that effective and practical defense requires a real-time understanding of the exposed attack surface and attacker techniques and methods. Enterprises must balance time, resource, headcount and budget constraints while attempting to implement and maintain effective defensive measures. This is untenable without a keen focus on the most critical threats to exposed assets, and efforts to thwart or greatly increase the complexity of an adversary's efforts. Of course, perfect security is impossible, so organizations must be well positioned to rapidly detect and respond to threats.

We have strong offensive security experience gained through dealing with clients across the globe, in a variety of industry segments. We have trained security professionals for years in offensive techniques, empowering them to understand how systems and networks are compromised. We have conducted and presented original security research into new and emerging technologies at some of the world's leading security conferences. Finally, we have significant experience architecting and designing defensive security controls.

It is this balance of practicality and reality that allows Ares to provide our clients with timely and effective insight, and to assist them to focus on the most relevant and critical threats as a priority.

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Services

We offer a number of standard services as well as services tailored specifically for our clients' needs. Please contact us for further details on specific services, or with any specific requests.

Our standard service offerings include the following: