Introducing Harden

We’re releasing Harden, a native macOS tool that audits your Mac’s security configuration against 52 best-practice checks and helps you fix what it finds — no Terminal required. The gap it fills Your Mac has dozens of security settings spread across System Settings, command-line tools, and kernel parameters. Guides exist for hardening them, but they’re aimed at sysadmins and expect you to run commands like defaults read com.apple.alf globalstate and interpret the output. Harden does all of that for you and presents the results in plain language with one-click fixes. ...

May 26, 2026 · 2 min · Subversive Software

Introducing Vigil

We’re releasing Vigil, a native macOS system monitor that watches your processes and file activity, learns what “normal” looks like, and flags anything unusual. It’s a behavioral antivirus — it doesn’t block, it observes and reports. The gap it fills Activity Monitor tells you CPU percentage and memory usage. But it can’t tell you that a process is doing ten times its normal disk I/O, that an unknown process appeared with no executable path, or that an AI coding tool just touched files outside its expected scope. Vigil fills that gap with behavioral baselines and heuristic analysis. ...

May 26, 2026 · 2 min · Subversive Software