VARDENTby CX Defense

Evidence-first intelligence

Security intelligence.Grounded in the source.

A local-first workspace for security intelligence.
Collect sources, investigate with AI assistance and prepare briefings with the underlying material available for review.

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Information, in context

The world keeps moving.
Examine what matters.

Retain the original.

Collect security news and RSS feeds, with the original material available to revisit.

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The intelligence workflowSource / Assessment / Record

The source matters.

A headline begins
the story.
Understanding
takes you further.

A useful assessment must be open to examination: what was collected, how it was interpreted and which sources support the conclusion.

In development by CX Defense, VARDENT connects security news and RSS collection, article extraction, research and reporting. Search the collection and work with AI while keeping the original material available to examine in context.

AI summaries and extracted entities are starting points for investigation. The analyst checks interpretations against the sources and decides what the material supports. Retained files, file hashes and AI activity logs help make that research reviewable.

Follow the research

The research process

From collected material.
To a supported assessment.

Collect the original. Examine the context. Document the assessment. The source material stays available throughout the work.

  1. 01Source

    Collect
    the source.

    Collect security news and RSS feeds, extract readable article text and remove duplicates. Retain the original material so an analyst can return to the full source when a summary leaves something uncertain.

    News & RSS · Retained originals

  2. 02Analysis

    Examine
    the material.

    Search the collection and question the material with AI assistance. Summaries and extracted entities provide starting points. The analyst checks interpretations against the sources, weighs context and decides what the material supports.

    Search & chat · AI-assisted research

  3. 03Report

    Document
    the assessment.

    Prepare PDF and Word briefings with supporting material available for review. Retained files, file hashes and AI activity logs help others inspect the research behind an assessment, including where AI contributed.

    PDF & Word · Reviewable records

Clarity in the finding. Depth in the record.

Your workspace

Local by design.
Clear about AI processing.

VARDENT keeps its database and evidence files on your machine. The choice of AI determines where analysis takes place.

A local model.

Use Ollama to run a model locally. This supports a workflow where AI processing stays on your machine, with performance shaped by your hardware and the model you select.

A cloud provider.

Choose a supported cloud model when it suits the task. Material included in a request is sent to that provider, whose terms and data handling apply. Local storage alone does not make a cloud-assisted workflow entirely local.

VARDENT is in development

Bring a research problem.
Examine the workflow.

We are developing VARDENT for security teams and analysts who need to examine the sources behind an assessment. Discuss your collection, review and reporting requirements with CX Defense, and help shape a pilot around your research workflow.

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