VAULTGUARD

PROTECT · PREVENT · PREPARE

Professional security software, built for the people the industry tends to ignore.

What VaultGuard is

One product family. One mission. Built by one person who answers his own email.

Most cybersecurity software is built for big companies. The tools enterprises rely on cost thousands of dollars per seat, require dedicated security teams to operate, and treat small customers as an afterthought. The tools marketed to individuals and small businesses are usually consumer software dressed up in enterprise language — promising protection but quietly failing when it matters most.

VaultGuard exists to fix that. Each app is built around the actual threats small businesses and individuals face, with the same engineering rigor enterprises take for granted. None of it requires an IT team to use. All of it is supported by one person — me.

The family

The VaultGuard family is built around the NIST Cybersecurity Framework — the U.S. government's standard for organizing security work into five functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, and Respond. Each VaultGuard app addresses one of those functions, designed to work alongside the others as you build out your defense.

You don't need all five. Most customers start with the one that addresses their most urgent gap (usually Backup) and add others as their needs grow.

Currently available

VaultGuard Backup — Protect

Cryptographically verified Windows backups with ransomware-aware restore.

The first VaultGuard app and currently the only one available for purchase. Built around SHA-256 manifest verification, automated 3-2-1 backup strategy (local, cloud, off-site), pre-backup Defender scanning, drive health monitoring, and a long list of features that exist because something went wrong somewhere first.

Coming soon

The rest of the VaultGuard family is in development. The exact names haven’t been decided yet, so I put placeholders here as identifiers. Each app will follow the same model as Backup: subscription-based, supported by me directly, designed for small businesses and individuals rather than enterprises.

I'd rather ship a smaller number of apps that genuinely work than a larger family of half-finished software with my name on it. Each VaultGuard app gets the same attention Backup got — which means each one takes time. Sign up for the waitlist on any app below and I'll email you when it launches.

VaultGuard Govern (Currently in production)

Policy and compliance documentation, made manageable.

Most small businesses don't have written cybersecurity policies because writing them is overwhelming. VaultGuard Govern will produce real, usable policies — acceptable use, data retention, incident response, password requirements — sized for a small business and aligned with NIST CSF.

VaultGuard Scout

Know what you have, know where it lives.

You can't protect what you don't know about. VaultGuard Scout will inventory your systems, data, accounts, and exposures — the foundation that every other security activity depends on.

VaultGuard Watch

Eyes on your systems, every day.

Continuous monitoring for signs of trouble. Drive health, login patterns, file changes, suspicious activity. Quiet during the boring days. Loud when something matters.

VaultGuard Strike

When something goes wrong, you have a plan.

Incident response toolkit and runbooks for small businesses — the stuff you wish you'd had ready before the bad thing happened.

What ties the apps together

Same engineering philosophy across the family:

• Cryptographic verification built in everywhere it matters

• Hardware-bound licensing so license keys can't be casually shared

• ACL-locked runtime data stored in protected directories

• Code-signed binaries verified by Windows on install and update

• Honest reporting — no "successful" job logs that hide failures

• One person to call when something goes wrong

Same commercial model across the family:

• Subscription-based with a 14-day free trial

• Personal and business plans, with volume discounts at 10 hosts

• 14-day refund window on annual subscriptions

• Cancel anytime, no penalty

• Full feature access — no premium tier gating the security features

Same legal framework:

• One End User License Agreement covering all VaultGuard apps

• One Privacy Policy that's specific rather than generic

• Plain-English Terms of Service with no surprise auto-renewal traps

Why I'm building this

A note from David, the developer.

I began setting up backup and security infrastructure for small Kentucky businesses — churches, dental offices, funeral homes, sole proprietors. They all faced the same problem: serious cybersecurity tools were either priced for Fortune 500 companies or dressed-up consumer software that quietly failed.

Each time I needed something for a client, I either had to overpay for an enterprise tool I'd only use 10% of, or scotch-tape together consumer software that didn't quite do the job. So I started building my own.

VaultGuard Backup was the first. The other apps are the rest of the toolkit I wished existed. Each one is engineered with the same care I'd apply if I were the customer — which, for the apps I haven't built yet, I am.

If you're someone the cybersecurity industry has been ignoring, you're who I'm building this for.

— David Martin

Final CTA

Start with what you actually need today.

VaultGuard Backup is available now. Everything else is in development. If backup is your most urgent gap, start there. I’m excited to create and share all of these products. As they come available, I will have them all hosted right here. Check back for them and I’ll try to have updates as I progress.