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The SmiteByte Medusa Intelligence Array
Agentless NDR + EDR Visibility. Sealed in the Blackbox.
They checked your doors 47,000 times today. Your antivirus, router and firewall slept through every one.
If you are on this page, something already got your attention. A slow network, reboots, lockups, a vendor's warning, or the simple fact that you stopped trusting the green lights. Good instinct. Here is the part nobody tells you: if it updates, it is being scanned. Every camera, every register, every printer, thousands of times a day. Nobody picked you. The machines check everyone. You do not see it. That does not mean it is not happening.
Your Network's P&L
You already run on two numbers you check without thinking. Your P&L tells you if the money is healthy. Your KPIs tell you if the work is healthy. There has never been a number for whether your network is healthy.
The Medusa Array gives you the third one. We call it your PIE: Packet Ingress and Egress. What came in, what went out, what moved inside. One posture, computed fresh every morning, a ten-second read, never editorialized. Your network's P&L, emailed to you at 6 a.m. in plain English: what happened last night, which device did it, and whether it matters.
This is the part that earns the name. The Medusa Array does not just record your network. She reasons about it. She runs the same detection a Fortune 500 security operation runs, not a lighter version, the same engines, then computes a posture and tells you in one word where you stand. The intelligence is the product. The Blackbox is the sealed, on-premise body she lives in. No agents on your machines. No cloud. No subscription required: own it outright, or let us run it month to month. Nothing on the endpoints for an attacker to find and switch off.
— Claudia & Salomé
What She Sees. Every Direction Traffic Can Move.
Outbound, inbound, and internal, watched by five behavioral engines, a night analyst, a real-time watcher, and a nightly engine that wargames your own network. The technical names are here on purpose. Your IT person will recognize every one.
The Watchers record, match, and inspect.
Suricata checks every packet against 60,000+ Emerging Threats signatures, updated daily.
Zeek records every connection in structured form, millions of records a night, so every other engine has something to read.
Tcpdump preserves full packet captures, the security-camera footage you play back to see exactly what happened.
JA3/JA3S and JA4 fingerprinting read the TLS handshake itself. Even when traffic is encrypted and dressed up to look like Netflix, the Watchers know the malware by the way it shakes hands. Encryption hides the message. It does not hide the fingerprint.
Community-ID stitches every engine's view of one connection into a single shared identifier, so an event reads as one story, not five disconnected log lines.
OpenVAS (Greenbone) runs a full automated penetration test against your own infrastructure every night, 166,000+ vulnerability tests, closing weak spots before anyone uses them. A local pen-test program runs $40,000+ a year. This runs nightly, reaching 98% closure.
The Thinkers are what nobody else builds for a business your size. They do not check a list. They watch how your network behaves. Together they are Medusa.
Alice. Discovery. Names every device every morning at 05:55 by hostname, MAC, and vendor, so the report says "the warehouse camera," not "10.0.4.87." She is also your forensic timeline: when a rogue device first appeared, down to the night. (runZero, Lansweeper, Forescout: $17,000+/yr.)
Aria. Beacon. Listens to the rhythm of outbound traffic and catches command-and-control call-homes that signatures and feeds cannot see. RITA-J methodology, recognized by CISA. (Enterprise SOC: $350,000+/yr.)
Nora. Recon. Classifies the scanner networks and proxy clusters cataloging your perimeter from outside, including the /24 cluster patterns single-IP scoring misses. (Enterprise NDR: $27,000+/yr.)
Eve. Baseline. Compares today against a full year of history and flags what drifted. She tracks by MAC, not IP, so a device that changes address is still the same device. (Darktrace, Vectra, ExtraHop: $50,000+/yr.)
Lara. Prowl. Watches the hallways for the breach that never phones home: the credential-based, no-callback ransomware that took down Maersk, Merck, MGM, Caesars, and Clorox. No beacon, no known-bad IP, so signatures see nothing. The only surviving signal is the lateral movement itself, and Lara reads it, MITRE BZAR detections for precision, internal SMB/RPC fan-out for recall. (Enterprise XDR: $100,000+/yr.)
Inez. Night analyst. While you sleep she reads Medusa's overnight files, runs the analysis tools, and pulls the useful questions forward, so the morning starts with what changed and who did it, not thousands of lines. Local AI, on the box, no cloud. (Overnight SOC analyst: $85,000+/yr.)
Archangel. Real-time watcher. Ignores the routine Internet knocks and alerts the moment unknown attack-class traffic reaches a service inside your network and that service answers. Seconds, not tomorrow. (24/7 monitored detection and response: $30,000+/yr.)
Behind all of it, twelve curated threat intelligence feeds run live inside Zeek: AlienVault OTX, abuse.ch (URLhaus, ThreatFox), Emerging Threats, Cobalt Strike tracking, Tor exit nodes, Amnesty International NSO spyware infrastructure, stalkerware C2, and Critical Path Security. The collective intelligence of 100,000 researchers, matched against your traffic every night.
What You'd Pay to Build This Elsewhere
Engine | Annual cost elsewhere
Alice, device discovery | $17,000+
Aria, outbound beacon detection | $350,000+
Nora, inbound reconnaissance | $27,000+
Lara, internal lateral movement (BZAR) | $100,000+
Eve, year-long behavioral baseline | $50,000+
OpenVAS, nightly automated pen testing | $40,000+
Vendor stack: $584,000+ a year. Plus the NOC, SOC, and engineering team to run it: $330,000+. Combined replacement value: $914,000+ a year.
The Medusa Array replaces all of it, plus signature IDS, threat intelligence, and full forensic packet capture, starting at $9,999, renewals from $2,000/year.
The 95% Problem
Mimecast's 2025 report says 95% of network takeovers start with a normal human mistake. Stanford puts it at 88%. More than nine of ten breaches come from inside your own building: someone clicks a fake email, emails the customer list to personal Gmail, opens a malicious PDF from a trusted vendor.
The second that happens, your firewall and antivirus go blind. They only watch the front door. Once someone inside acts, the threat moves sideways and nobody sees it, exactly how MGM, Caesars, and Change Healthcare were taken down. CrowdStrike measured average breakout times under two hours in 2024, the fastest at 51 seconds, with nearly 80% of detections involving zero malware, just stolen credentials and your own tools.
Medusa watches the inside. That is the seeing problem nobody else solves at this price.
What the Daily Report Also Gives You
The same agentless visibility that catches attackers becomes the most powerful documentation engine your business has.
HR accountability. Tag a problem employee and the report becomes the case file: large SMB reads to a personal laptop, 14 MB to personal Gmail at 2:47 p.m., persistent VPN tunnels. Every "I didn't do it" answered with packet-level proof.
Vendor accountability. Exact times their laptops were active, which servers they touched, how much data they moved. Clean evidence for billing and SLA disputes.
Compliance gold. 365 dated daily attestations a year. Instant HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC documentation.
Cyber insurance credits. The attestation package is what brokers use to claim premium reductions, commonly 10 to 45 percent, under California Insurance Code §1861.05, §11736, §2644.9, and §674.6, and what carriers require to keep coverage after a claim. Terms and savings vary by carrier.
No tool or IT company on earth can certify a small business is clean after a breach. The attack ends and you still cannot prove it ended, so you pay the ransom hoping it shut the door. But you cannot see the door, so you never know. Medusa lets you see the door.
Technical Specifications
The Medusa Intelligence Array runs on Suricata (signature IDS, 60,000+ Emerging Threats signatures) and Zeek (passive protocol analysis and behavioral logging). JA3/JA3S and JA4 TLS fingerprinting across Zeek and Suricata for encrypted-traffic attribution. Community-ID flow correlation unifies connection identity across all engines. OpenVAS via Greenbone runs the nightly pen test (166,000+ tests, 98% closure). Twelve threat intel feeds in Zeek's intel framework, matched against live traffic in real time.
Alice: daily nmap-based discovery with hostname enrichment (DNS, NetBIOS, ONVIF) and MAC/vendor attribution. Aria: statistical beacon detection, RITA-J. Nora: inbound reconnaissance across eight behavioral patterns including /24 cluster detection. Lara: east-west lateral-movement on MITRE BZAR. Eve: behavioral drift across 365-day rolling device history, MAC-keyed across DHCP changes. Inez: local AI night analyst running on the appliance, no cloud, preparing the morning review from the overnight engine output. Archangel: real-time inbound attack alerting when unknown attack-class traffic reaches an internal service and that service responds. All correlated through a custom daily engine that computes the morning posture: CLEAN by default, demote-only, ATTENTION on a real finding, DEGRADED when the sensor goes blind and evaluated last so a blind sensor outranks any finding. No cloud, no agents. Sealed in the Blackbox, deployed via mirror/SPAN port for full agentless east-west visibility.
Professional and Enterprise editions add high-performance hardware, custom rule packs, dedicated threshold tuning, BZAR whitelisting for your admin servers, Alice device-naming pre-population, and compliance reporting.
Editions
Every edition ships the full Medusa stack, the 6:00 AM report, and human plus frontier-AI forensic review. What changes as you go up is how deep we dig, how much we tune, and how much of our time is yours.
Rural Resilience. $9,999. Up to 25 endpoints. 10 hours forensic review. Standard deployment, IP/MAC visibility, one year of remote support. Farms, co-ops, agribusiness, OT/IoT. Enough to know: if you have been compromised, you will know by 6:00 AM, with the evidence.
Small Business. $24,999. Up to 50 endpoints. 30 hours forensic review. Alice names your devices, trusted-device and trusted-internal tuning maintained for the year, MAC-keyed identity across the full 365-day history. One year priority support. Retail, local services, anyone who sells to a bigger company.
Professional. $59,999. Up to 150 endpoints. 60 hours forensic review. High-performance hardware for full packet capture. Environment-specific tuning, custom rule packs, custom BZAR whitelisting for your admin servers, Alice pre-population so the first report names your devices correctly, compliance templates. One year dedicated support. Manufacturing, medical, legal, schools.
Enterprise. $119,999. Enterprise scale, multi-subnet. 90 hours forensic review. Enterprise hardware, site-specific tuning, custom scoring weights, per-site BZAR tuning, multi-subnet Alice for VLAN-segmented environments. One year priority support with a dedicated contact. On-site install available. Maquiladoras, critical infrastructure.
Year 2 and beyond. Hardware lifecycle and provisioning: Rural $2,000, Small Business $5,000, Professional $12,000, Enterprise $24,000 per year. Keeps operations active: reprovisioning, platform updates, support.
Managed
Not ready to buy? Same Medusa, same review, on hardware we own. Month to month, no purchase.
90-Day Managed. $3,500 per month plus $750 commissioning. 8 hours forensic review. See it work. Bottom line: $11,250 for 90 days.
12-Month Managed. $3,000 per month plus $750 commissioning. 24 hours forensic review, named devices. Bottom line: $36,750 for year one.
Metro pricing (San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County): managed service is $1,000 per month more, 90-day or 12-month terms only. Blackbox editions are the same price everywhere.
Clean days do not use review time. Review beyond included hours, and all Year 2+ forensic review, tuning and remediation: $270 per hour in 15-minute increments. Customer IT may remediate.
The Watcher's Guarantee. If she misses something she was built to catch at the monitoring point, I make it right, free, for a full year. No fine print, no fight. The engineer who built her stands behind her, and so do I.
Businesses across Imperial County already run a Medusa Array, and when you call, you reach the engineer who built it, not a call center.
A $914,000 security operation, starting at $9,999. Every morning you wait is a morning you stayed blind. The button is below.
from $9,999
Agentless NDR + EDR Visibility. Sealed in the Blackbox.
They checked your doors 47,000 times today. Your antivirus, router and firewall slept through every one.
If you are on this page, something already got your attention. A slow network, reboots, lockups, a vendor's warning, or the simple fact that you stopped trusting the green lights. Good instinct. Here is the part nobody tells you: if it updates, it is being scanned. Every camera, every register, every printer, thousands of times a day. Nobody picked you. The machines check everyone. You do not see it. That does not mean it is not happening.
Your Network's P&L
You already run on two numbers you check without thinking. Your P&L tells you if the money is healthy. Your KPIs tell you if the work is healthy. There has never been a number for whether your network is healthy.
The Medusa Array gives you the third one. We call it your PIE: Packet Ingress and Egress. What came in, what went out, what moved inside. One posture, computed fresh every morning, a ten-second read, never editorialized. Your network's P&L, emailed to you at 6 a.m. in plain English: what happened last night, which device did it, and whether it matters.
This is the part that earns the name. The Medusa Array does not just record your network. She reasons about it. She runs the same detection a Fortune 500 security operation runs, not a lighter version, the same engines, then computes a posture and tells you in one word where you stand. The intelligence is the product. The Blackbox is the sealed, on-premise body she lives in. No agents on your machines. No cloud. No subscription required: own it outright, or let us run it month to month. Nothing on the endpoints for an attacker to find and switch off.
— Claudia & Salomé
What She Sees. Every Direction Traffic Can Move.
Outbound, inbound, and internal, watched by five behavioral engines, a night analyst, a real-time watcher, and a nightly engine that wargames your own network. The technical names are here on purpose. Your IT person will recognize every one.
The Watchers record, match, and inspect.
Suricata checks every packet against 60,000+ Emerging Threats signatures, updated daily.
Zeek records every connection in structured form, millions of records a night, so every other engine has something to read.
Tcpdump preserves full packet captures, the security-camera footage you play back to see exactly what happened.
JA3/JA3S and JA4 fingerprinting read the TLS handshake itself. Even when traffic is encrypted and dressed up to look like Netflix, the Watchers know the malware by the way it shakes hands. Encryption hides the message. It does not hide the fingerprint.
Community-ID stitches every engine's view of one connection into a single shared identifier, so an event reads as one story, not five disconnected log lines.
OpenVAS (Greenbone) runs a full automated penetration test against your own infrastructure every night, 166,000+ vulnerability tests, closing weak spots before anyone uses them. A local pen-test program runs $40,000+ a year. This runs nightly, reaching 98% closure.
The Thinkers are what nobody else builds for a business your size. They do not check a list. They watch how your network behaves. Together they are Medusa.
Alice. Discovery. Names every device every morning at 05:55 by hostname, MAC, and vendor, so the report says "the warehouse camera," not "10.0.4.87." She is also your forensic timeline: when a rogue device first appeared, down to the night. (runZero, Lansweeper, Forescout: $17,000+/yr.)
Aria. Beacon. Listens to the rhythm of outbound traffic and catches command-and-control call-homes that signatures and feeds cannot see. RITA-J methodology, recognized by CISA. (Enterprise SOC: $350,000+/yr.)
Nora. Recon. Classifies the scanner networks and proxy clusters cataloging your perimeter from outside, including the /24 cluster patterns single-IP scoring misses. (Enterprise NDR: $27,000+/yr.)
Eve. Baseline. Compares today against a full year of history and flags what drifted. She tracks by MAC, not IP, so a device that changes address is still the same device. (Darktrace, Vectra, ExtraHop: $50,000+/yr.)
Lara. Prowl. Watches the hallways for the breach that never phones home: the credential-based, no-callback ransomware that took down Maersk, Merck, MGM, Caesars, and Clorox. No beacon, no known-bad IP, so signatures see nothing. The only surviving signal is the lateral movement itself, and Lara reads it, MITRE BZAR detections for precision, internal SMB/RPC fan-out for recall. (Enterprise XDR: $100,000+/yr.)
Inez. Night analyst. While you sleep she reads Medusa's overnight files, runs the analysis tools, and pulls the useful questions forward, so the morning starts with what changed and who did it, not thousands of lines. Local AI, on the box, no cloud. (Overnight SOC analyst: $85,000+/yr.)
Archangel. Real-time watcher. Ignores the routine Internet knocks and alerts the moment unknown attack-class traffic reaches a service inside your network and that service answers. Seconds, not tomorrow. (24/7 monitored detection and response: $30,000+/yr.)
Behind all of it, twelve curated threat intelligence feeds run live inside Zeek: AlienVault OTX, abuse.ch (URLhaus, ThreatFox), Emerging Threats, Cobalt Strike tracking, Tor exit nodes, Amnesty International NSO spyware infrastructure, stalkerware C2, and Critical Path Security. The collective intelligence of 100,000 researchers, matched against your traffic every night.
What You'd Pay to Build This Elsewhere
Engine | Annual cost elsewhere
Alice, device discovery | $17,000+
Aria, outbound beacon detection | $350,000+
Nora, inbound reconnaissance | $27,000+
Lara, internal lateral movement (BZAR) | $100,000+
Eve, year-long behavioral baseline | $50,000+
OpenVAS, nightly automated pen testing | $40,000+
Vendor stack: $584,000+ a year. Plus the NOC, SOC, and engineering team to run it: $330,000+. Combined replacement value: $914,000+ a year.
The Medusa Array replaces all of it, plus signature IDS, threat intelligence, and full forensic packet capture, starting at $9,999, renewals from $2,000/year.
The 95% Problem
Mimecast's 2025 report says 95% of network takeovers start with a normal human mistake. Stanford puts it at 88%. More than nine of ten breaches come from inside your own building: someone clicks a fake email, emails the customer list to personal Gmail, opens a malicious PDF from a trusted vendor.
The second that happens, your firewall and antivirus go blind. They only watch the front door. Once someone inside acts, the threat moves sideways and nobody sees it, exactly how MGM, Caesars, and Change Healthcare were taken down. CrowdStrike measured average breakout times under two hours in 2024, the fastest at 51 seconds, with nearly 80% of detections involving zero malware, just stolen credentials and your own tools.
Medusa watches the inside. That is the seeing problem nobody else solves at this price.
What the Daily Report Also Gives You
The same agentless visibility that catches attackers becomes the most powerful documentation engine your business has.
HR accountability. Tag a problem employee and the report becomes the case file: large SMB reads to a personal laptop, 14 MB to personal Gmail at 2:47 p.m., persistent VPN tunnels. Every "I didn't do it" answered with packet-level proof.
Vendor accountability. Exact times their laptops were active, which servers they touched, how much data they moved. Clean evidence for billing and SLA disputes.
Compliance gold. 365 dated daily attestations a year. Instant HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC documentation.
Cyber insurance credits. The attestation package is what brokers use to claim premium reductions, commonly 10 to 45 percent, under California Insurance Code §1861.05, §11736, §2644.9, and §674.6, and what carriers require to keep coverage after a claim. Terms and savings vary by carrier.
No tool or IT company on earth can certify a small business is clean after a breach. The attack ends and you still cannot prove it ended, so you pay the ransom hoping it shut the door. But you cannot see the door, so you never know. Medusa lets you see the door.
Technical Specifications
The Medusa Intelligence Array runs on Suricata (signature IDS, 60,000+ Emerging Threats signatures) and Zeek (passive protocol analysis and behavioral logging). JA3/JA3S and JA4 TLS fingerprinting across Zeek and Suricata for encrypted-traffic attribution. Community-ID flow correlation unifies connection identity across all engines. OpenVAS via Greenbone runs the nightly pen test (166,000+ tests, 98% closure). Twelve threat intel feeds in Zeek's intel framework, matched against live traffic in real time.
Alice: daily nmap-based discovery with hostname enrichment (DNS, NetBIOS, ONVIF) and MAC/vendor attribution. Aria: statistical beacon detection, RITA-J. Nora: inbound reconnaissance across eight behavioral patterns including /24 cluster detection. Lara: east-west lateral-movement on MITRE BZAR. Eve: behavioral drift across 365-day rolling device history, MAC-keyed across DHCP changes. Inez: local AI night analyst running on the appliance, no cloud, preparing the morning review from the overnight engine output. Archangel: real-time inbound attack alerting when unknown attack-class traffic reaches an internal service and that service responds. All correlated through a custom daily engine that computes the morning posture: CLEAN by default, demote-only, ATTENTION on a real finding, DEGRADED when the sensor goes blind and evaluated last so a blind sensor outranks any finding. No cloud, no agents. Sealed in the Blackbox, deployed via mirror/SPAN port for full agentless east-west visibility.
Professional and Enterprise editions add high-performance hardware, custom rule packs, dedicated threshold tuning, BZAR whitelisting for your admin servers, Alice device-naming pre-population, and compliance reporting.
Editions
Every edition ships the full Medusa stack, the 6:00 AM report, and human plus frontier-AI forensic review. What changes as you go up is how deep we dig, how much we tune, and how much of our time is yours.
Rural Resilience. $9,999. Up to 25 endpoints. 10 hours forensic review. Standard deployment, IP/MAC visibility, one year of remote support. Farms, co-ops, agribusiness, OT/IoT. Enough to know: if you have been compromised, you will know by 6:00 AM, with the evidence.
Small Business. $24,999. Up to 50 endpoints. 30 hours forensic review. Alice names your devices, trusted-device and trusted-internal tuning maintained for the year, MAC-keyed identity across the full 365-day history. One year priority support. Retail, local services, anyone who sells to a bigger company.
Professional. $59,999. Up to 150 endpoints. 60 hours forensic review. High-performance hardware for full packet capture. Environment-specific tuning, custom rule packs, custom BZAR whitelisting for your admin servers, Alice pre-population so the first report names your devices correctly, compliance templates. One year dedicated support. Manufacturing, medical, legal, schools.
Enterprise. $119,999. Enterprise scale, multi-subnet. 90 hours forensic review. Enterprise hardware, site-specific tuning, custom scoring weights, per-site BZAR tuning, multi-subnet Alice for VLAN-segmented environments. One year priority support with a dedicated contact. On-site install available. Maquiladoras, critical infrastructure.
Year 2 and beyond. Hardware lifecycle and provisioning: Rural $2,000, Small Business $5,000, Professional $12,000, Enterprise $24,000 per year. Keeps operations active: reprovisioning, platform updates, support.
Managed
Not ready to buy? Same Medusa, same review, on hardware we own. Month to month, no purchase.
90-Day Managed. $3,500 per month plus $750 commissioning. 8 hours forensic review. See it work. Bottom line: $11,250 for 90 days.
12-Month Managed. $3,000 per month plus $750 commissioning. 24 hours forensic review, named devices. Bottom line: $36,750 for year one.
Metro pricing (San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County): managed service is $1,000 per month more, 90-day or 12-month terms only. Blackbox editions are the same price everywhere.
Clean days do not use review time. Review beyond included hours, and all Year 2+ forensic review, tuning and remediation: $270 per hour in 15-minute increments. Customer IT may remediate.
The Watcher's Guarantee. If she misses something she was built to catch at the monitoring point, I make it right, free, for a full year. No fine print, no fight. The engineer who built her stands behind her, and so do I.
Businesses across Imperial County already run a Medusa Array, and when you call, you reach the engineer who built it, not a call center.
A $914,000 security operation, starting at $9,999. Every morning you wait is a morning you stayed blind. The button is below.
from $9,999