What is Ottoguard
  • 04 Dec 2025
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Overview

Ottoguard is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that provides organizations with unified visibility, analysis, and management of their security infrastructure. It serves as a central command center for cybersecurity operations, combining data from multiple security tools into a single, intelligent interface.


🎯 Core Purpose

Ottoguard helps security teams:

  • Consolidate Security Data: Aggregate information from various security vendors and tools into one platform

  • Gain Unified Visibility: View your entire security posture across assets, vulnerabilities, incidents, and configurations

  • Accelerate Response: Quickly identify threats, investigate incidents, and take action

  • Make Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage AI-powered analytics to understand risks and prioritize remediation efforts


🔑 Key Features

AI-Driven Interface

Ottoguard features a chat-first interface powered by specialized AI agents called "Jellies". Each Jelly has unique capabilities to help you:

  • Query security data using natural language

  • Analyze vulnerabilities and assets

  • Generate reports and visualizations

  • Get answers to complex security questions

Data Integration

Connect your existing security tools to Ottoguard, including:

  • Virsec Security Platform (VSP) - Runtime protection and host monitoring

  • Qualys - Vulnerability scanning

  • Rapid7 - Vulnerability management

  • Tenable - Vulnerability assessment

  • Armis - Asset discovery

  • Azure Sentinel - SIEM integration

Real-Time Dashboards ("Spaces")

Create custom dashboards with widgets that update automatically:

  • Track key performance indicators (KPIs)

  • Monitor vulnerability trends

  • View asset health status

  • Visualize incident patterns

Comprehensive Data Coverage

Access unified data across:

  • Asset Inventory: Complete visibility into servers, endpoints, and infrastructure

  • Vulnerabilities: CVE tracking with severity scoring and protection status

  • Incidents: Security events and policy violations

  • Software Inventory: Installed packages and trust status

  • Files: Executable and script monitoring


💡 How It Works

  1. Connect Your Tools: Integrate your existing security vendors through the data integrations settings

  2. Data Aggregation: Ottoguard automatically collects and normalizes data from all connected sources

  3. AI Analysis: Ask questions in natural language, and the AI agents analyze your data to provide answers

  4. Visualize & Act: Create dashboards, generate reports, and take informed action based on insights


🛡️ Integration with Virsec Security Platform

Ottoguard has deep integration with Virsec Security Platform (VSP), providing:

  • Real-time visibility into protected assets and probe status

  • Incident tracking and analysis

  • Vulnerability contextualization with VSP protection status

  • Allowlist management insights

  • PROTECT mode readiness assessment


🚀 Getting Started

  1. Explore Conversations: Start chatting with Jellies to ask questions about your security data

  2. Set Up Integrations: Connect your security tools through the integrations settings

  3. Build Dashboards: Create custom Spaces with widgets that matter to your team

  4. Leverage AI: Use natural language queries to uncover insights and trends


📊 Use Cases

  • Vulnerability Management: Identify critical vulnerabilities and track remediation progress

  • Asset Discovery: Maintain accurate inventory of all infrastructure components

  • Incident Response: Investigate security events and understand attack patterns

  • Compliance Reporting: Generate reports for audits and compliance requirements

  • Risk Assessment: Prioritize security efforts based on threat intelligence and exposure


🔒 Data Security

  • Data is updated on a daily basis from connected sources

  • Historical data is retained for trend analysis and reporting

  • All queries respect your organization's data access controls


📞 Need Help?

Ask any Jelly for assistance with:

  • Understanding your security data

  • Creating visualizations

  • Setting up integrations

  • Interpreting results

Ottoguard is designed to make cybersecurity data accessible, actionable, and intelligible for security teams of all sizes.


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