Zyko Shield — Active Database Defense (ADD)

WHY WE BUILT SHIELD

Five years ago, I started over in Israel.

New country. New language. New chapter. Over the years, I worked with automation, AI, business systems, software development and cybersecurity. One question kept coming back:

Why do organizations invest millions in security and still discover critical data problems days, weeks or even months later?

The more I looked at it, the more I realized: most security solutions focus on how an attack begins. Very few focus on the exact moment critical data changes.

Zyko Shield was built to answer that question.

THE SILENT BREACH

A valid login. A command that looks normal. And quietly, a value changes.

5,000 becomes 50,000.

A customer record is overwritten.

A price becomes zero.

A privilege changes from "user" to "admin".

Nothing crashes. No alarm sounds. The business continues operating. Days later, someone discovers the damage — and nobody knows exactly when it started.

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY GOT IN

The cause changes. The damage is the same.

Stolen credentials Insider activity SQL injection Vulnerable plugins Software bugs Faulty integrations Automation errors AI making wrong updates

Shield acts on the effect — the unauthorized write — not on the cause.

A NEW CATEGORY

Active Database Defense (ADD)

Almost every tool you own watches where the attack begins — the perimeter, the endpoint, the identity. Almost nothing watches the data itself, at the exact moment it changes.

Perimeter

Endpoint

Network

Identity

Data integrity

That missing layer needed a name. We call it Active Database Defense: real-time protection of data integrity, independent of how the attacker got in.

A DAY AFTER THE INCIDENT

The same morning. Two outcomes.

Without Shield

09:00 Unauthorized change occurs

15:00 Someone finally notices

16:00 Investigation begins

18:00 Backup restoration starts

20:00 Systems operational again

Hours of downtime
Lost productivity
Lost confidence in the data
Legitimate changes lost in the rollback

With Shield

09:00 Unauthorized change occurs

09:00 Shield detects it

09:00 Shield reverts only that write

09:01 Your team gets the alert

No downtime
No full database rollback
No loss of legitimate changes
Immediate visibility

SEE IT HAPPEN

Same attack. Two ways to respond.

Left: the attack. Top-right: Telegram alerts in real time. Bottom-right: the database.

OBSERVATION MODE

Shield detects and alerts.

Every unauthorized change is caught and reported the instant it happens. Your team reviews the incident and decides whether to revert. This is where every deployment starts — Shield proves itself against your real data before it ever acts on its own.

PROTECTION MODE

Shield detects and reverts.

Once you've validated Shield in your environment, you turn protection on. The unauthorized change is reverted automatically — typically within seconds — and your team is notified that it already happened.

Same detection.

Two response strategies.

You choose when to move from observing to protecting.

DETECT · REVERT · RESPOND

How Shield protects your data

🔍

Detect

Shield identifies unauthorized changes to critical data the instant they happen.

↺

Revert

Only the incorrect change is reversed. Not yesterday's database. Not the entire table. Only the affected write.

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Respond

Your team receives immediate notification with complete visibility: what changed, when, and where.

EACH LAYER HAS ITS OWNER

Works alongside your existing security stack

Shield doesn't replace backup, EDR, firewall, DLP or SIEM. It complements them. Each layer has a different responsibility.

Layer	Threat	Owner
Content / logic (the data itself)	A wrong value is written, by any vector	Shield — real time, reverts only the error
File	Database files are encrypted	Backup / EDR
Exfiltration	Data is read and leaked (no write)	DLP / DAM
Network	Unauthorized network access	Firewall
Endpoint	Compromised devices	EDR

Shield covers the one layer none of them correct in real time: the data itself.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

Six things that change the math

Real time, not post-mortem

Catches the change as it happens. Not in the next audit. Not when a customer complains.

Surgical revert

Only the wrong write. No full rollback, no downtime, keeps the legitimate changes that came after.

Isolated audit trail

Evidence lives outside the monitored database. An attacker with database access can't reach or erase it.

No database exposure

The database never has to be opened to the internet.

No added latency

Operational queries run at the same speed they did before.

Mobile + biometrics

The responder only needs to know the business logic, not the infrastructure.

DEFAULT-DENY WITH A DECLARATION CHANNEL

It won't fight your legitimate work.

Legitimate work declares itself through a maintenance window and passes. Any anomalous, undeclared write is treated the moment it happens. That's what lets Shield be aggressive without disrupting the people doing things right.

AI Governance starts here.

An AI changed 100,000 records. How do you know it got them right? Every mass change was either declared — or caught.

WHERE IT RUNS

Wherever your critical data lives

Linux Servers Containerized Linux Shared Hosting WordPress WooCommerce MySQL MariaDB PostgreSQL MongoDB

No database exposed to the internet. No latency on the database. Full forensic log of every occurrence. On WordPress / WooCommerce it works out of the box — the client configures nothing.

HONEST SCOPE

Two types of ransomware. We handle one in real time.

Logical Data Encryption

When attackers encrypt data through normal database operations. Shield detects and reverts the changes in real time.

Database File Encryption

When attackers encrypt database files directly. Shield detects the symptoms and works alongside backup and EDR.

We focus on the layer that other solutions do not correct in real time: the data.

THE REALITY — 2025 IBM / PONEMON, 600 ORGANIZATIONS

These companies had security. The gap isn't budget.

US$ 4.44M

global average cost of a data breach (US$ 10.22M in the US)

241 days

average time to identify and contain a breach — the best figure in nine years

The gap is seeing the damage the moment it happens.

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025.

WHO SHIELD IS FOR

If your data matters more than your perimeter, this is for you.

SaaS & B2B platforms

E-commerce & WooCommerce stores

Managed hosting providers

MSPs & MSSPs

Agencies managing client databases

Organizations where data integrity matters

FOR INTEGRATORS, MSSPs AND SOCs

Partner Program

A resale program for partners who want to add real-time data integrity to their portfolio. Add Active Database Defense to what you already deliver.

Talk to us about partnership

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Backup helps you recover later. Shield helps you respond now.

Zyko Shield is your last line of defense — and, sometimes, the first.

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