SDVOSB · Air-gap ready · AES-256-GCM encryption mode

Find every CVE in your estate. Fix it with proof, not guesswork.

ArcScan sweeps your network, builds a live CMDB from agentless probes, matches every package against NVD, OSV, GHSA, RHSA, USN, DSA, Alpine, ALAS and MSRC feeds with KEV and EPSS enrichment, then generates Ansible remediation that is blast-radius analyzed and dry-run verified before a human approves the apply, with an HMAC-signed, offline-verifiable evidence bundle for your QSA, FedRAMP assessor, or 3PAO.

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Compliance control packs
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Live CVE feeds
Air-gap
Self-host ready
SDVOSB
Federal-eligible

MSRC ships enabled-on-request; 8 feeds run out of the box.

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Illustrative output
Find Risks
Prioritize What Matters
Remediate Automatically
Stay Secure
Designed for the compliance realities of these industries

ArcScan is a pre-revenue platform. The industries above are our design targets, not a customer list.

NIST 800-53 Rev 5 baseline
CIS AWS · Linux · Docker · Kubernetes
HIPAA Security Rule safeguards
PCI DSS v4.0.1 mapping
SOC 2 evidence generation (not SOC 2 certified)
FedRAMP Low + Moderate

A CMDB, a vuln scanner, and a remediation engine in one platform

One platform in place of a discovery tool, a vulnerability scanner, a CMDB sync, a post-quantum crypto inventory, and a remediation runner, built for regulated mid-market and federal teams.

Arc Discover: network sweep to CMDB

Agentless masscan/zmap sweep, then credentialed SSH/WinRM/SNMP/SMB/IPMI deep probes build a typed asset graph with packages, open ports, and software stacks. Agentless snapshot side-scans read a VM's package database straight off a disk snapshot, so stopped instances and hosts with no credentials still get inventoried. "Add environment" turns a cloud account or an on-prem site into the whole collection chain in one click.

Live CVE matching, ranked by reachability

Every discovered package is matched against nine vulnerability feeds: NVD, OSV, GHSA, RHSA, USN, DSA, Alpine, ALAS and MSRC. CISA KEV status and EPSS scores are layered on top, reachability analysis records whether the vulnerable code is exposed in your environment, and overnight delta alerts tell you when a CVE you already carry flips to known-exploited.

VEX, SBOM and CBOM your other scanners read

Export ArcScan's verdict on each CVE as OpenVEX, CycloneDX VEX, or CSAF VEX so downstream scanners stop paging on vulnerabilities already judged unreachable, fixed, or false positive. SBOMs ship as CycloneDX 1.5 or SPDX 2.3 per asset or org-wide, and Quantum Arc adds a CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM that joins to the same component references.

Governed remediation, verified before apply

Before anything executes, ArcScan walks the reverse-dependency closure of the package and maps it to the services running on that host, so the approver reads a restart list, not a version bump. Every fix runs in Ansible check mode against the real host, passes a deterministic dangerous-operations linter, then waits for policy-as-code, your maintenance window, and a human approval. ServiceNow change-request gating is opt-in per user and enforceable org-wide by a Manager.

Undo included, and proof that it works

Each fix ships with its own rollback playbook, and a post-apply scan confirms the CVE actually cleared. The Remediation Reliability dashboard reports patch success rate, MTTR mean and median split by severity, rollback counts, and the proposed-to-applied funnel from your own runs. Every action lands in an HMAC-signed evidence bundle that verifies offline.

Honest counts and the boxes you cannot patch

Exclude hosts or apps from a single run, or write a standing rule at host, package-on-host, or path-prefix granularity tagged vendor managed, risk accepted, or false positive. When a vendor forbids the upgrade, pin instead with apt hold or dnf versionlock, reported as pinned rather than fixed. Orphaned .dist-info remnants are recorded as not installed and never matched, with a cleanup playbook to remove them.

Quantum Arc: crypto inventory with blast radius

Agent-based discovery finds the SSH keys, X.509 certificates, and Java keystores across your estate and grades each one on an algorithm-aware severity scale. Crown-jewel ranking scores every finding by how far a compromise travels, the crypto map draws the PKI and key-sharing graph between your hosts and CAs, and the readiness report and CBOM track you against CNSA 2.0. Linux agents today.

Quantum Arc: deadlines, edge probe, safe rotation

Every quantum-vulnerable finding carries a must-migrate-by date computed from NIST IR 8547 or, when you select it, CNSA 2.0, with a burn-down by year. The external PQC readiness probe checks whether your TLS and SSH endpoints negotiate hybrid ML-KEM key exchange. Rotations roll out canary, percentage, then fleet, halt on a failed ring, and never lock anyone out.

Arc Tripwire: catch the first move

Plant decoy credentials that alert the moment anyone uses them: an AWS access key from a deny-all pool account, an ArcScan API token, a web URL that always answers 404, an Azure service principal, or an LLM lure in an AGENTS.md file. Credential-origin monitoring flags a real token used from outside its seven-day baseline, and retry-loop detection spots machine-regular 4xx bursts. Deterministic, no new sensor.

Topology that tells you what it saw

A unified asset graph with 10 edge kinds. East-west traffic observed on the hosts themselves sits alongside cloud control-plane routing pulled from NSG rules, VNet peering, and Front Door and load balancer config, each edge labeled by origin so you can always tell what actually talks from what is merely allowed to. Blast radius and attack paths run on top.

Continuous ATO, auditor portal, Trust Center

20 current control packs loaded, including NIST 800-53 Rev 5, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP Rev5 Class B and C, CIS, HIPAA, PCI DSS v4.0.1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, and GDPR, plus a crosswalk engine so SOC 2 evidence maps onto ISO and NIST without redoing the work. cATO packages export OSCAL SSP, POA&M, and assessment results. Give your assessor a read-only external portal over the tamper-evident log, and publish a token-gated Trust Center page prospects can read without an account.

Your AI agents, with the same guardrails

Ask ArcScan answers plain-English questions over your security graph through read-only tools. Describe a custom rule in a sentence and ArcScan drafts it with a canary pair it must pass before you can save. A built-in MCP server lets Claude Code or any Model Context Protocol client query posture and open governed remediation requests with your own API token, every call audit-logged.

Air-gap and federal, day one

A self-extracting offline bundle ships the ArcScan CLI, Ollama, and a GGUF model with no outbound calls; the full platform air-gaps via Docker Compose. AES-256-GCM encryption mode (FIPS-approved algorithms) for FedRAMP and DoD environments. SDVOSB sole-source eligible.

MSP partner portal

Manage client organizations from one console: create client workspaces, grant or revoke engineer access in batch, and invite read-only client viewers. The partner overview shows score, open criticals, and KEV exposure per client, with SLA and MTTR rollups, scheduled branded client reports, and quarterly business review PDFs under your own brand.

Identity your IdP already runs

SAML 2.0 and OAuth single sign-on for Google, GitHub, Microsoft, and GitLab, SCIM 2.0 provisioning from Okta, Entra, or OneLogin with groups mapped to the five functional roles, and TOTP or WebAuthn security-key two-factor. Deactivating a user in your IdP kills their sessions and their API tokens.

Terraform-to-CMDB sync

After every terraform apply, parsed tfstate upserts every compute instance it finds to ServiceNow CMDB, Jira, and FreshService. Closes the "CMDB is 60% out of date" gap regulated buyers know they have.

From unknown estate to a ranked, remediation-ready backlog in one sitting

Three steps. No agents to deploy. Works in air-gapped networks.

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Sweep & probe

Point ArcScan at a CIDR or cloud account. Agentless masscan/zmap sweep, then credentialed SSH/WinRM/SNMP probes pull packages, open ports, and software stacks.

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Match & rank

Every package is matched against 9 live vulnerability feeds. KEV-listed and high-EPSS CVEs surface first, filtered by whether the vulnerable code is actually reachable in your environment, with blast-radius context from your asset graph.

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Remediate & prove

Generate a remediation playbook, review its blast radius, watch it dry-run in check mode, then approve the apply. Or open a remediation PR or file a ServiceNow change request instead. Every action lands in an HMAC-signed evidence bundle, framework-mapped and offline-verifiable.

Manage infrastructure from discovery to operations

A complete IaC security and automation platform, not just a linter. Discover, audit, build, provision, and monitor your entire cloud estate from a single pane of glass.

Discover
Connect AWS or Azure and pull live infrastructure inventory (GCP in preview)
Cloud Inventory
Scan
Run CIS-benchmark posture checks and AI security analysis on configs
Posture Scanner
Build
Generate Terraform HCL from inventory or from a plain-text description
Terraform Generator
Provision
Generate and audit Ansible & Terraform IaC to configure and harden systems
IaC Engine
Operate
Create ServiceNow tickets, Slack alerts, and remediation PRs automatically
ServiceNow · SCM · Slack
Monitor
Scheduled scans, drift baselines, regression alerts, and compliance tracking
Analytics · Baselines
Or start from existing automation

Scan existing IaC

Paste, upload, or zip-scan your existing Ansible, Terraform, or mixed IaC repos. Get scored findings, policy-gated remediation playbooks, and compliance mapping in the same pass.

Generate from scratch

Describe what you need in plain English and ArcScan generates security-hardened Ansible and Terraform IaC using AI. Generated code enters the review tier: dry-run verified and human-approved before it touches anything.

Import from storage

Connect Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket and scan playbooks directly from where your team already works.

Frequently asked questions

What is ArcScan?
ArcScan is an enterprise security platform built around one loop: discover every asset, find every CVE and misconfiguration, and fix it under governance with proof. It sweeps networks and cloud accounts into a live CMDB, matches packages against nine CVE feeds, audits Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes, inventories post-quantum crypto risk with Quantum Arc, plants decoy credentials with Arc Tripwire, and remediates through check-mode dry runs, maintenance windows, and human approval. Findings map to NIST, CIS, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP, and the evidence reaches your auditor through a read-only portal or a public Trust Center. Built by Arcus Forge LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).
What cloud providers are supported?
ArcScan supports AWS and Microsoft Azure for live inventory, CIS-aligned posture scanning, drift detection, and Ansible/Terraform remediation generation. Google Cloud connection and inventory are available in preview: you can connect a project and pull resources, but GCP posture coverage is not yet at parity with AWS and Azure. You can connect multiple accounts per provider from the Cloud dashboard.
What AI providers can I use?
ArcScan works with Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, NVIDIA, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry (Enterprise), a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a fully local Ollama model for air-gapped installs. Bring your own API key from Settings, or let enterprise admins configure managed platform keys. The platform default is Azure OpenAI; air-gapped deployments default to local Ollama inference with no outbound calls.
What does the Cloud Security Posture scanner check?
The posture scanner runs 21 deterministic (no AI required) checks aligned with CIS benchmarks: 10 for AWS, 6 for GCP (preview), and 4 for Azure, with more Azure coverage in progress. It checks for: open security groups and firewalls, publicly accessible databases, unencrypted storage, overly permissive IAM policies, missing tags/labels, stale IAM users, public IPs on compute instances, and more. Each finding includes a severity rating, CIS reference, remediation steps, and an IaC remediation hint for Ansible and Terraform.
How does the full infrastructure lifecycle work?
ArcScan covers six stages: Discover (pull cloud inventory from AWS and Azure; GCP in preview), Scan (posture checks + AI analysis), Build (generate Terraform HCL), Provision (generate and audit Ansible & Terraform IaC), Operate (ServiceNow tickets, Slack alerts, GitHub/GitLab remediation PRs), and Monitor (scheduled scans, drift baselines, regression detection). You can start from existing IaC, cloud inventory, or generate everything from a plain-English description.
Is my data safe? Are playbooks or credentials stored?
Cloud credentials are encrypted at rest with Fernet (AES-128-CBC + HMAC) and only decrypted at scan time. With FIPS mode enabled, credentials use AES-256-GCM. Encryption is mandatory: there is no plaintext or base64 fallback path. API keys are stored per-user and never shared. Playbook content is stored for your report history but never sent to third parties, only to the AI provider you choose, using your API key. If your organization has not configured a key, requests route to ArcScan's managed Azure OpenAI endpoint instead. Air-gapped deployments use a local Ollama model and make no outbound calls at all. Enterprise customers can self-host with Docker for full data sovereignty.
Can I integrate with CI/CD pipelines?
Yes. ArcScan provides a REST API with webhook tokens for CI/CD integration. It also includes a Workflow Builder that generates ready-to-use pipeline configs for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Ansible AWX/Tower, with configurable quality gate scores so builds fail if IaC doesn't meet your security threshold.
What integrations are available?
Cloud: AWS and Azure inventory and posture scanning; GCP inventory in preview.
Storage: Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.
SCM: Post findings to GitHub PRs, GitLab MRs, Bitbucket PRs; create remediation PRs; inbound webhooks from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.
Automation: AWX/AAP project imports, HashiCorp Vault secret scanning.
ITSM: ServiceNow change-request gating of automation, CMDB CI and dependency sync, plus Jira and FreshService ticket and asset sync.
Exports: SARIF 2.1, CycloneDX 1.5 and SPDX 2.3 SBOM, CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM, OpenVEX / CycloneDX VEX / CSAF VEX, ArcSight CEF streaming, CSV/JSON, and HMAC-signed evidence bundles that verify offline.
AI agents: an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at /api/v1/mcp/ for Claude Code and other agents, plus a REST API.
Notifications: Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord webhooks.
Auth: SAML 2.0 and OAuth SSO (Google, GitHub, Microsoft, GitLab); SCIM 2.0 user provisioning; TOTP and WebAuthn/security-key 2FA; email OTP fallback.
Can my own AI agents use ArcScan?
Yes. ArcScan ships an MCP server that any Model Context Protocol client can connect to with a personal API token. Agents can list findings, look up assets, summarize posture, filter CVEs by KEV, EPSS, or reachability, and open a governed remediation request that still goes through the same dry run and human approval as a click in the UI. Nothing an agent does bypasses tenancy, roles, or the audit log. The one-line setup for Claude Code is in the FAQ.
Is ArcScan suitable for government and defense?
Yes. Arcus Forge LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), eligible for sole-source and set-aside federal contracts. ArcScan supports air-gapped deployment via Docker, FedRAMP Rev5 Class B and C control mapping with SSP and POA&M export, and NIST 800-53 Rev 5 / NIST 800-171 Rev 2 reporting. It runs entirely self-hosted with no external API calls in air-gapped mode.
How much does it cost?
ArcScan is sold as an annual platform contract sized by host and user capacity, with Federal and Air-Gap deployments scoped individually. Every new account can start with a free 14-day Trial (50 hosts, 3 users, no credit card, converts to read-only when it ends). Contact sales for a quote tailored to your fleet.
A billable host is a compute instance, a VM or bare-metal server enrolled in scanning. Cloud resources such as security groups, subnets, IAM roles, storage, and serverless functions are analyzed at no charge and never count as hosts. AI provider costs are separate, billed by your provider at their published rates and typically cents per scan.
Can I try the platform before buying?
Yes. Every new account can activate a 14-day Trial from the Billing page. No credit card is required. The Trial includes 50 hosts and 3 users with full access to cloud scanning, Terraform generation, scheduled scans, and the storage, SCM, ITSM, SIEM and notification integrations. Deployed agents (Arc Probe, Quantum Arc) are not included, and the trial converts to read-only after 14 days.

Built for federal contracts

ArcusForge LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) eligible for sole-source and set-aside federal contracts. ArcScan supports air-gapped deployment, FedRAMP Rev5 Class B and C control mapping, and NIST 800-53 / 800-171 compliance reporting with SSP and POA&M export.

SDVOSB, federal set-aside eligible
Air-gap ready
GSA Schedule eligible
SSP & POA&M export
UEI P9CKJ1JAFH88 · CAGE 16LA8 · SAM.gov active
SBA-certified SDVOSB and VOSB, through Nov 2028
NAICS 541512 (primary), 541511, 541513, 541519
7643 Gate Parkway, Suite 104-537, Jacksonville, FL 32256

Built for regulated industries

Purpose-built for the compliance realities of healthcare, federal agencies, and financial services, the three verticals where IaC risk and audit pressure converge.

Healthcare
HIPAA-governed IaC
HIPAA-ready by default
Target outcome for healthcare DevOps teams

Healthcare IaC teams typically manage hundreds of Ansible and Terraform modules across clinical, billing, and infrastructure systems, and manual pre-deployment security review competes directly with release cadence.

How ArcScan fits
  • Automated HIPAA Technical Safeguard mapping
  • Per-sprint audit-ready compliance export
  • ServiceNow change-request gating of automation
  • Arc Redactor for PII/PHI sanitization, 20 detection categories
HIPAA Evidence export ServiceNow
Federal government
Air-gap + ATO workflows
ATO-ready
NIST 800-53 + FedRAMP automation

Federal civilian and defense agencies running air-gapped environments need consistent NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP validation across every IaC module, without sending source code to a SaaS. CNSA 2.0 adds a second clock: agencies must know where their pre-quantum cryptography lives before they can plan the migration.

How ArcScan fits
  • Air-gapped Docker deployment, fully offline
  • Automated NIST 800-53 Rev 5 & FedRAMP Rev5 Class B/C reporting with SSP and POA&M export
  • Quantum Arc PQC discovery, CBOM export, and CNSA 2.0 readiness reporting (Linux agents)
  • SDVOSB sole-source & set-aside eligibility
NIST 800-53 FedRAMP Air-gapped deployment
Financial services
PCI-DSS & SOC2 evidence
Audit-ready
PCI-DSS 4.0 continuous evidence

Credit unions, payment processors, and regional banks face annual PCI-DSS QSA audits where evidence collection, screenshots, policy documents, and system check exports across dozens of IaC modules, is done by hand.

How ArcScan fits
  • PCI-DSS 4.0 control mapping per module
  • Automated QSA evidence packs, HMAC-signed and verifiable offline
  • Read-only external auditor portal over a tamper-evident log
  • Crosswalk engine: satisfy SOC 2 once, map it onto PCI, HIPAA and ISO 27001
PCI-DSS 4.0 SOC 2 Type II NCUA-aligned

Target deployment profiles. ArcScan is a pre-revenue platform actively exploring design-partner relationships in each vertical.

Shifting security left in IaC: a practical guide

Infrastructure as Code has transformed how teams deploy systems, but it has also moved security risk upstream. Traditional security tooling was built for running systems, not declarative configuration files. This white paper examines how automated IaC security analysis closes that gap.

The IaC security gap
Why CSPM and SAST coverage models leave a structural blind spot in the IaC layer
Framework mapping at scale
How to automatically map playbook tasks to NIST 800-53, CIS, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC2 controls
CI/CD integration patterns
Practical patterns for integrating IaC security gates into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins pipelines
Remediation playbooks
Ansible and Terraform remediation snippets for the most common IaC security findings, ready to copy into your codebase
ROI and risk-reduction metrics
Industry data on the cost of a misconfigured deployment and how shift-left tooling reduces mean-time-to-remediation
Download white paper (PDF)
Free download, no email required.
ArcusForge LLC · Technical white paper
Shifting security left in Infrastructure as Code
A practitioner's guide to automated IaC security analysis
Coverage
Ansible Terraform
Frameworks NIST · CIS · HIPAA · PCI-DSS · SOC2
Pages 7 pages
Audience DevSecOps · Security Architects · CTOs
Table of contents
  1. The state of IaC security in 2026
  2. Understanding the misconfiguration attack surface
  3. Automated detection: how security rules work
  4. Mapping IaC to compliance frameworks
  5. Integrating security gates into CI/CD
  6. ITSM workflows for IaC findings
  7. Measuring and reporting security posture
  8. Remediation reference library
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VOLO Data is an independent product with its own site, sign-in, and terms. ArcusForge does not operate it.

Run your first network sweep this afternoon

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14-day free Trial Air-gap self-host AES-256-GCM encryption mode SDVOSB, federal-eligible