Gardaí

Composition of the holding

The Garda group of companies for August 2023 includes five companies:

• Garda Technology is a developer of a family of products in the field of data protection and network security.
• TechArgos is a developer of software and hardware solutions for monitoring, filtering, aggregation, processing, balancing traffic and systems for analyzing, classifying and blocking network traffic.
• Bastion - audit, consulting, integration and maintenance of information security systems.
• Makves is a software developer in the field of auditing and protecting file systems and unstructured data (DCAP, Data-Centric Audit and Protection).
• Weblock is a developer firewall for protecting web applications (WAF, Web Application Firewall).

History

2023

Association of Security System Developers in Garda Holding

The developers of network and information security systems Garda Technologies, TechArgos, Weblock, Makves and Bastion have merged into the Garda holding. The technological capabilities of the participating companies form the basis of the network security ecosystem with an integrated service in the field of data protection and building secure networks. Representatives of the Garda group of companies shared this with TAdviser on August 8.

Russian developers of network and information security systems have merged into a holding

The top management of the group of companies includes:

• Evgeny Goldin - General Director of the Garda Management Company,
• Rustem Khayretdinov - Deputy General Director of the Garda Management Company,
• Alexander Kovalevsky - General Director of Bastion,
• Maxim Simachev - General Director of Garda Technology,
• Evgeny Guganov - General Director of TechArgos,
• Roman Podkopaev - CEO of Makves,
• Alexander Samokhvalov is the CEO of Weblock.

The Garda Group of Companies is part of ICS Holding and as of August 2023 presents a set of solutions in five areas of activity: data protection, network security, traffic management, network infrastructure, analytics and service. The synergistic effect of combining competencies allows you to supply customers with an ecosystem of information resource security: audit and data protection and building a secure network infrastructure; at the same time, multi-level service and well-functioning supply chains help increase the speed of project implementation.

According to the holding, at the beginning of August 2023, 50% of revenues are brought by projects for the construction of network infrastructure, 25% - data protection, 17% - network security and 10% - audit and service services. In the next two years, the Garda group of companies plans to enter the top 3 largest vendors of corporate security systems in Russia.

Garda solutions already protect 50% of everything of the Russian Internet from, DDoS-attacks protect digital services and events of a federal scale, protect data state organizations and corporations, the Garda Group of Companies said in a statement. The holding's product portfolio is built on the basis of proprietary technologies that do not require third-party licenses, are included Unified Register of Russian Software in and are certified. FSTEC

Registration of the Criminal Code "Garda"

As representatives of the Garda Group of Companies clarified to TAdviser, on April 27, 2023, the Garda management company was registered to control and synchronize and optimize activities and business processes within the group, coordinate financial flows, and make management decisions.