Cerberus blocks the lethal trifecta at the tool boundary — see the 525-run evidence set.

Warden · Deployment

A runtime control is only worth having once it is in the call path

An engagement that takes Cerberus from evaluation to production: integrated with your agent frameworks, tuned against your traffic, and enforcing policy your teams understand and can change.

The hard part is the first block, not the first install

Getting a runtime into the call path is an afternoon. Getting the organization comfortable with it refusing an action in production is the engagement, and it depends on running in observation long enough to know what enforcement would have done.

  1. Observation has to come firstEnforcing on day one against traffic you have never characterized is how a security control gets switched off permanently.
  2. Policy has to be owned by someoneA rule set only the vendor understands does not survive the first false positive at 5pm.
  3. Failure mode is a decisionFail-closed protects the data and can stop the business; that trade-off needs a named owner, not a default.

How the deployment runs

1

Architecture and placement

Where the runtime sits relative to your agents, frameworks and tool layer, including self-hosted deployment inside your own boundary where required.

2

Observe

Run in observation against production traffic, characterizing what would have been blocked and why.

3

Tune

Reduce false positives against real traffic and agree the failure mode per guarded action.

4

Enforce and hand over

Move to enforcement in stages, with your team owning the policy and the runbook by the end.

What you hold at the end

  • Cerberus deployed in your environment, self-hosted where the boundary requires it
  • An observation report characterizing what enforcement would have done to real traffic
  • A tuned policy set owned and editable by your team
  • A documented failure-mode decision per guarded action
  • Runbooks, alerting integration and a handover your on-call team has walked through

What is deployed

In the call path, tuned, and owned by your team

A runtime control in observation forever is a monitoring tool. The engagement ends when it is enforcing.