Argus was built on a simple premise.

The private security market deserved the same intelligence architecture used to protect principals in the world's most contested environments. It did not have it.

That gap is why Argus exists.

Steven Toro - Founder & CEO

Steven Toro spent twenty years in environments where intelligence failure was not a recoverable mistake. Special Operations Intelligence. NSA counterterrorism. Executive protection and intelligence for a global superstar. Operations where the intelligence picture determined whether people came home.

During the surge in Iraq, Steven identified and dismantled an IED cell that had been undetected for two years across multiple units. The cell turned out to be the entire indigenous police force his team was partnered with, operating under aliases while conducting attacks on the very convoys they were accompanying. The intelligence that broke it open did not come from a platform or a database. It came from paying attention to what was right in front of everyone.

That experience shaped how Steven thinks about threat awareness. It does not fit into a framework. It defines itself. And the most dangerous threats are almost always the ones nobody is watching because they look ordinary.

Argus exists because that level of intelligence support, historically available only to governments and the largest institutions in the world, belongs in the hands of the families and organizations that actually need it.

Steven personally leads every Argus engagement. When you work with Argus, you work with him directly. There is no account manager between you and the person responsible for your protection.

ARGUS

In Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes was the all-seeing giant - a hundred eyes, never sleeping, always watching. It is the oldest metaphor for vigilance. It is the standard we hold ourselves to.