Section 01 — Agent Name

WARDEN.

Agentic Data Protection,
DLP + Compliance Evidence

WARDEN is TrustNovaOps' seventh Nova agent — an AI-powered, agentic security control layer that monitors, classifies, reasons, and acts across your entire data surface. Not a scanner. Not a checkbox. A persistent, autonomous guardian wired into every layer of your infrastructure.

Recommended Name
WARDEN
AGT-07 // Data Guardian Agent
Alternative Names
CIPHER
Classification focus
VIGIL
Surveillance / always-on
PROVENANCE
Data lineage / governance
APEX
Agentic Protection & Evidence eXchange
MERIDIAN
Boundary enforcement
Section 02 — Core Mission

WHAT WARDEN
ACTUALLY DOES

WARDEN fills the gap traditional DLP tools cannot — reasoning about data risk, not just detecting it.

The Mission

WARDEN is a continuously-running AI agent embedded into TrustNovaOps' Nova orchestrator. Its mission: discover, classify, monitor, and protect every sensitive data asset across your entire infrastructure — and generate the compliance evidence to prove it.

Unlike traditional DLP tools that scan on a schedule and alert on rule matches, WARDEN reasons continuously. It understands context — who touched a file, where it moved, how that compares to their baseline behavior, and what that means for your CMMC 2.0 or FedRAMP posture — then takes calibrated action.

WARDEN operates as part of the broader Nova agent ecosystem. It shares telemetry with SENTINEL (endpoint), STRIKER (threat response), LEDGER (audit), and ACCORD (compliance) — closing the loop between data visibility, active protection, and regulatory evidence in a single, coordinated control plane.

Not a Scanner
Traditional DLP runs scheduled scans, matches patterns, fires alerts. WARDEN reasons about risk continuously — context, behavior, and policy in real time.
Not a Silo
WARDEN shares context with every other Nova agent. A USB event from SENTINEL, a ransomware signal from STRIKER, a print anomaly from LEDGER — WARDEN correlates all of it into a unified data risk picture.
Not Reactive
WARDEN generates audit-ready compliance evidence as a byproduct of normal operation. When the auditor arrives, the evidence package already exists — timestamped, scoped, and mapped to your control framework.
Section 03 — Key Capabilities

WHAT WARDEN
CAN DO

Twelve core capabilities that together cover your entire sensitive data surface — from cloud buckets to git commits.

CAP-01
🔍
Sensitive Data Discovery
Continuously crawls cloud storage, file servers, endpoints, databases, and repositories to locate sensitive data — including data you didn't know existed. No scheduled scans. Persistent, streaming discovery.
CAP-02
🏷️
CUI / PII / PHI / PCI Detection
AI-powered pattern recognition for CUI, PII, ePHI, PCI-DSS card data, SSNs, EINs, passport numbers, and custom organizational data types — with context scoring, not just regex hits.
CAP-03
🔑
Secrets & Credential Detection
Detects exposed API keys, tokens, certificates, private keys, hardcoded passwords, cloud credentials, and OAuth secrets across code, configs, logs, and documents — including historical commits.
CAP-04
💻
Source Code & Repo Scanning
Integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. Scans pull requests, commits, branches, and issues for sensitive data, CUI indicators, and policy violations before merge.
CAP-05
⚙️
CI/CD Pipeline Inspection
Inspects pipeline artifacts, build logs, environment variables, container images, and IaC templates (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) for sensitive data exposure and policy drift.
CAP-06
☁️
Cloud Storage Monitoring
Audits S3, Azure Blob, GCS, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dropbox for misconfigured permissions, publicly exposed sensitive files, and unauthorized cross-account data movement in real time.
CAP-07
📊
Log & Telemetry Inspection
Analyzes log streams from SIEM, CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, and application logs for accidental PII logging, credential leakage in traces, and data-in-motion anomalies.
CAP-08
🔀
Data Movement Tracking
Follows sensitive data as it moves — endpoint to USB, email attachment, cloud sync, API transfer, or print job. Builds a chain-of-custody view that spans every vector simultaneously.
CAP-09
👤
Insider Risk Indicators
Correlates behavioral signals — anomalous access volume, after-hours downloads, bulk exports before resignation dates, sensitive data staging — into user risk scores, not just individual alerts.
CAP-10
📋
Compliance Evidence Generation
Auto-generates timestamped, auditor-ready evidence packages mapped to CMMC 2.0 practices, NIST 800-53 controls, FedRAMP requirements, and RMF/ATO documentation — continuously, not at audit time.
CAP-11
📜
Policy-as-Code Enforcement
Define data handling policies in code (YAML/JSON/Rego). WARDEN enforces them consistently across all data surfaces — no gap between written policy and what's actually enforced in production.
CAP-12
🤝
Human-in-the-Loop Recommendations
For ambiguous or high-impact scenarios, WARDEN pauses before acting. It assembles full context — risk score, data lineage, user history, policy match — and routes to an analyst with a ranked recommendation set.
Section 04 — Agentic Workflow

NINE STEPS.
ZERO GAPS.

WARDEN runs a continuous, closed-loop agentic cycle — from raw observation to documented remediation.

Step 01
OBSERVE
Streams telemetry from endpoints, cloud, repos, CI/CD, logs, and network in real time via pre-built connectors.
Step 02
CLASSIFY
AI classifies data type, sensitivity tier (CUI, PII, PHI, secrets), and owner. Tags are propagated across the data graph.
Step 03
CORRELATE
Links classification to user behavior, access patterns, policy context, and signals from other Nova agents to build a full picture.
Step 04
RISK-SCORE
Assigns a dynamic risk score to each event and data asset — weighted by data type, user trust level, destination, and policy impact.
Step 05
ALERT
Fires targeted, context-rich alerts to SIEM, Slack, PagerDuty, or ServiceNow. No alert fatigue — only what matters, with full context attached.
Step 06
RECOMMEND
Generates ranked remediation options — quarantine, revoke access, rotate secret, notify user, block transfer — with estimated impact and risk delta.
Step 07
GENERATE EVIDENCE
Assembles an audit trail entry: event timeline, data lineage, policy mapping, and control reference (CMMC, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP).
Step 08
ESCALATE
Routes high-risk or ambiguous cases to a human analyst with full context pre-assembled. One-click approve, modify, or override.
Step 09
REMEDIATE
Executes approved actions autonomously — or triggers pre-approved playbooks for known threat patterns without requiring human confirmation.
Section 05 — Use Cases

BUILT FOR THE
HARDEST ENVIRONMENTS

From federal primes to DevSecOps pipelines — WARDEN was designed for organizations where data protection is a mission-critical requirement, not a checkbox.

Federal Contractors
CUI Protection at Scale
Defense contractors and federal agencies handling Controlled Unclassified Information face mounting pressure to demonstrate CUI protection across distributed teams, contractor networks, and classified enclaves.
  • Continuous CUI discovery across SharePoint, email, and shared drives
  • Automated spillage detection and containment
  • Chain-of-custody audit trail for CUI movement
  • Pre-built DFARS 252.204-7012 evidence packages
CMMC 2.0
Continuous Compliance Posture
CMMC 2.0 Level 2 requires 110 NIST SP 800-171 practices. Manual evidence collection for assessments takes months and is instantly stale. WARDEN makes compliance a living, automated state.
  • Automated evidence mapped to all 110 NIST 800-171 practices
  • Gap identification and remediation recommendations
  • Assessment-ready packages exportable for C3PAO review
  • Continuous SPRS score tracking
NIST 800-53 / FedRAMP
Control Evidence Automation
FedRAMP High and Moderate authorizations require continuous monitoring evidence for hundreds of controls. WARDEN generates this as a byproduct — not a manual effort performed quarterly.
  • Continuous control evidence for AC, AU, SC, SI, and MP families
  • Automated POA&M entries for identified gaps
  • Boundary-aware data flow mapping for SSP documentation
  • ConMon report generation from live telemetry
RMF / ATO Packages
Living Authorization Support
Achieving and maintaining an ATO requires continuous evidence that security controls are operating as documented. WARDEN transforms the ATO from a point-in-time snapshot into a living, verifiable state.
  • Real-time evidence mapped to ATO control baseline
  • Automated SCTM population from observed telemetry
  • Security Assessment Report data feeds
  • Significant change flagging for ISSO review
DevSecOps Pipelines
Shift-Left Data Security
Sensitive data found in production is expensive. WARDEN embeds DLP into the pipeline — scanning PRs, build artifacts, container images, and IaC configs before they ever reach a production environment.
  • Pre-commit and pre-merge secret scanning
  • CI/CD build artifact inspection (Docker, Lambda, Helm)
  • IaC misconfiguration detection (open S3, exposed ports)
  • Pipeline fail gates on critical policy violations
SOC / CSOC Environments
Data-Enriched Threat Hunting
Security analysts spend too much time reconstructing data context after an incident. WARDEN pre-builds that context — so when an alert fires, the analyst already knows what data was involved, who touched it, and where it went.
  • Pre-built data context for every security event
  • Insider risk scores fed into SIEM as structured data
  • Data lineage graphs for forensic investigation
  • Integration with Splunk ES and Microsoft Sentinel
Cloud Migration
Data Sovereignty in Transit
Cloud migrations routinely expose sensitive data — misconfigured storage, overly permissive IAM, accidental public exposure. WARDEN monitors the migration in progress, not just the destination.
  • Real-time monitoring of data movement to cloud targets
  • Permission audit across migrated storage resources
  • Residual on-prem sensitive data discovery post-migration
  • Data residency policy enforcement by region and classification
Palantir Foundry
Ontology-Aware Data Governance
Palantir Foundry's ontology model creates rich data relationships — but also rich risk. WARDEN integrates with Foundry's data lineage graph to classify objects, enforce access policies, and generate governance evidence at the ontology level.
  • Foundry dataset classification and sensitivity tagging
  • Ontology-level access anomaly detection
  • Pipeline output classification before exposure
  • Evidence generation for Foundry-hosted CUI workloads
Section 06 — Why This Matters

THE MISSING
LINK.

TrustNovaOps already delivers exceptional infrastructure visibility, endpoint control, and compliance reporting through the existing Nova agent fleet. But the platform has a structural gap: it monitors what happens to systems, not what happens to the data those systems process.

SENTINEL locks down ports. STRIKER isolates endpoints. LEDGER builds an audit trail. But none of them can tell you: what sensitive data was involved, where it originated, what compliance control was implicated, and whether evidence exists to prove the response was adequate.

WARDEN closes that loop. It transforms TrustNovaOps from a security operations platform into a holistic data governance and protection platform — one where every security event is automatically contextualized with data classification, compliance mapping, and remediation evidence.

Zero Trust
Zero Trust requires that access to data is continuously verified — not just identity. WARDEN provides the data classification layer that makes Zero Trust enforceable at the data level, not just the network perimeter.
Data Governance
Governance frameworks require knowing what data you have, where it is, who owns it, and how it's protected. WARDEN is the automated answer to all four questions — continuously updated, not point-in-time.
Operational Resilience
Data breaches aren't just a security event — they're an operational disruption. WARDEN's proactive containment and pre-built evidence packages cut incident response time from weeks to hours.
Compliance Readiness
CMMC 2.0, FedRAMP, and HIPAA audits are expensive because evidence is assembled manually and is instantly stale. WARDEN makes compliance a continuous, automated state rather than a periodic scramble.
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YOUR DATA
HAS A GUARDIAN.
NOW IT HAS
PROOF.

WARDEN is TrustNovaOps' AI-powered data protection agent. It discovers sensitive data, monitors how it moves, enforces your policies, and auto-generates the compliance evidence that proves it — across every cloud, endpoint, pipeline, and repository in your environment. Continuously. Autonomously. Without waiting for an audit.

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Short Product Description

WARDEN is the seventh Nova agent in the TrustNovaOps platform — a purpose-built AI agent for data loss prevention, sensitive data governance, and compliance evidence automation. While traditional DLP tools scan and alert, WARDEN reasons. It classifies your data, tracks how it moves, scores the risk, and acts — autonomously for known threats, and with human-in-the-loop precision for everything else. Every action is automatically mapped to your compliance framework and preserved as audit-ready evidence, so your CMMC, FedRAMP, or HIPAA posture is always provable — not just assumed.

Feature Bullets
  • Discovers CUI, PII, ePHI, PCI data, secrets, and API keys across cloud, endpoints, repos, and pipelines — continuously, not on a schedule
  • Monitors data movement in real time across USB, email, cloud sync, print, API transfer, and browser upload simultaneously
  • Scans source code, pull requests, and CI/CD artifacts for credentials, sensitive data, and policy violations before they reach production
  • Scores insider risk by correlating behavioral signals across users — anomalous access, bulk exports, after-hours activity, staging behavior
  • Auto-generates timestamped, auditor-ready evidence packages mapped to CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and HIPAA
  • Enforces data handling policies defined as code (YAML / Rego) — consistently, across every data surface, without manual intervention
  • Coordinates with SENTINEL, STRIKER, LEDGER, and ACCORD to provide full-context responses — not isolated alerts
  • Routes ambiguous and high-impact events to human analysts with ranked recommendations, full data lineage, and one-click action
How It Works — Section
WARDEN WORKS IN
NINE STEPS.

From raw telemetry to documented remediation — WARDEN runs the full cycle without a human in the loop for known threats. For everything else, it brings the analyst in at exactly the right moment, with everything they need already assembled.

01
Observe
Streams telemetry from every connected data surface — cloud, endpoint, repo, pipeline, log — continuously.
02
Classify
AI tags every data asset with type, sensitivity, owner, and applicable compliance framework — in context, not just by pattern.
03
Correlate
Links data events to user behavior, device history, policy context, and signals from other Nova agents to build a complete picture.
04
Risk-Score
Assigns a dynamic risk score to each event — weighted by data sensitivity, user trust level, destination, and compliance impact.
05
Alert
Fires targeted, context-rich alerts to your SIEM, Slack, PagerDuty, or ServiceNow — with zero alert fatigue.
06
Recommend
Generates ranked remediation options with estimated risk delta — quarantine, revoke, rotate, block, or notify.
Federal Compliance Alignment Section
BUILT FOR
FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS.

WARDEN was designed from the ground up for organizations where compliance isn't optional. It speaks the language of federal frameworks natively — and generates the evidence to prove it.

CMMC 2.0
Level 1–3 Evidence
NIST 800-53
Rev 5 Control Mapping
FedRAMP
High / Moderate
HIPAA
ePHI Protection
DFARS
252.204-7012
RMF/ATO
Living Evidence
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Section 08 — Architecture Concept

HOW WARDEN
IS BUILT

Eight interconnected components — all coordinated by the Nova orchestrator, all sharing a unified data and telemetry plane.

Core
Nova Agent Orchestrator
The central coordination layer shared by all Nova agents. Routes telemetry, manages agent state, coordinates cross-agent signals, and enforces execution order across the WARDEN workflow cycle.
WARDEN Connects To
GitHub / GitLab AWS / Azure / GCP Microsoft 365 Splunk ServiceNow Palantir Foundry Slack / Teams Jira SIEM / SOC Azure DevOps
Layer 1
Data Connectors
Pre-built integrations for cloud storage (S3, Azure Blob, GCS), SaaS (M365, SharePoint, Dropbox), code repos (GitHub, GitLab), CI/CD systems, SIEM, and endpoint agents. New connectors deployable via plugin API.
Layer 2
Classification Engine
AI-powered classifier trained on CUI, PII, PHI, PCI, and secrets patterns. Context-aware — understands file type, metadata, surrounding content, and user behavior to reduce false positives.
Layer 3
Policy Engine
Accepts policy definitions as code (YAML/Rego). Evaluates every classified event against the active policy set in real time. Policy updates propagate across all connected surfaces within minutes.
Layer 4
Risk Scoring Engine
Dynamic risk scoring model that combines data sensitivity, user trust score, event type, destination, time context, and cross-agent signals into a single, actionable risk number per event.
Layer 5
Evidence Generator
Continuously assembles audit-ready evidence packages mapped to CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and DFARS controls. Packages are timestamped, versioned, and exportable on demand.
Layer 6
Human Approval Workflow
Routes high-risk or ambiguous events to analysts with full context pre-assembled. One-click approve, modify, or override. All decisions logged as evidence. Integrates with ServiceNow and Jira for ticketing.
Layer 7
Command Center Dashboard
Real-time visibility into data risk posture — sensitive data inventory, risk score distribution, policy violation trends, compliance evidence status, insider risk heat maps, and cross-agent correlation view.
Section 09 — Differentiation

WARDEN VS.
TRADITIONAL DLP

Traditional DLP tools were built to block file transfers. WARDEN was built to protect data — and prove it.

Capability Traditional DLP
(Symantec, Forcepoint, etc.)
WARDEN / TrustNovaOps
Detection Method Scheduled scans + regex pattern matching Continuous AI reasoning with behavioral and contextual scoring
Coverage Endpoint, email, web — siloed per product Endpoint, cloud, CI/CD, repo, log, telemetry — unified agent
Source Code / Repo Scanning Not included — separate tool required Native — pre-commit, PR, and historical commit scanning
CI/CD Pipeline Inspection Not included Native — artifact, env var, and IaC scanning
Compliance Evidence Generation Manual — screenshots and spreadsheets at audit time Automated — continuous, framework-mapped, timestamped packages
Insider Risk Correlation Basic — per-event rules, no behavioral baseline Advanced — user risk scores built from behavioral patterns over time
Palantir Foundry Integration Not available Native ontology-level classification and governance
Policy-as-Code GUI-only policy editor, no version control YAML/Rego policies, git-versioned, instant propagation
Cross-Agent Correlation Isolated — no context from other security tools without SIEM Native — shares context with SENTINEL, STRIKER, LEDGER, ACCORD
Agentic Autonomous Response Alert only — requires human to execute remediation Autonomous remediation for known threats; HITL for complex cases
Federal Framework Alignment Some HIPAA/PCI support — weak CMMC/FedRAMP mapping CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, DFARS, RMF — native
Deployment Model On-prem agent + separate cloud connector + separate email gateway Single Nova agent, unified orchestrator, API-first connectors
Time to Value Months — complex rule tuning, high false positive rate initially Hours — AI baseline establishes automatically; policies deploy as code
Section 10 — Final Recommendation

WHERE WARDEN
BELONGS.

Standalone product, module, or part of NovaShield? Here's the case for each — and the recommended path.

Option A
Standalone Product
Sell WARDEN independently to organizations with existing security infrastructure who need DLP + compliance evidence automation.
Pros
Larger addressable market. Can compete directly with Symantec, Forcepoint, Nightfall. SAM/CISA approved vendor path.
Cons
Loses the cross-agent correlation advantage. Must compete on feature parity alone, not platform differentiation.
Recommended
Option B
Nova Module
Deploy WARDEN as AGT-07 within the TrustNovaOps platform — an add-on module that unlocks data protection capabilities within the existing Nova orchestrator.
Pros
Full cross-agent correlation. Platform stickiness. Differentiation from point solutions. Compliance evidence package is dramatically stronger with all 7 agents active. Faster deployment for existing TrustNovaOps customers.
Cons
Requires TrustNovaOps platform as prerequisite. Limits standalone market reach.
Option C
NovaShield Suite
Bundle WARDEN into a "NovaShield" enterprise suite alongside SENTINEL, STRIKER, ACCORD, and LEDGER — sold as a unified federal data protection and compliance platform.
Pros
Premium positioning. Strong SLED and federal government appeal. ATO-ready bundle narrative. Higher ACV per contract.
Cons
Longer sales cycle. Requires NovaShield brand to be established separately.
Final Recommendation

Launch as Nova Module. Package into NovaShield.

Ship WARDEN as AGT-07 in the TrustNovaOps platform immediately — it's the fastest path to market and delivers the strongest product differentiation. Price it as an add-on tier (e.g., $8–$15/workstation/month above Operator). In parallel, develop the NovaShield suite brand as the premium federal/enterprise bundle that wraps WARDEN, SENTINEL, STRIKER, LEDGER, and ACCORD into a single, ATO-aligned offering. This two-track approach captures both the platform customer and the enterprise federal buyer.

Recommended Path
NOVA
MODULE
AGT-07 add-on tier, bundled
into NovaShield for federal
enterprise packaging
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