Who needs Cerberus?
Anyone whose laptop holds something they would not want to read in tomorrow's headlines. A small sample of the people who already sleep better because of it.
Lawyer The firm partner
Your laptop holds privileged communications, deal drafts, witness statements, internal notes on opposing counsel. A breach isn't just embarrassing — it can vacate cases and trigger bar complaints.
"On the train back from a client meeting in Frankfurt, I realised my bag was gone. Until I got home and reset everything, I knew Cerberus was already counting down."
Files are encrypted within hours, destroyed within days — all without you touching anything.
Accountant The tax advisor
Tax filings, banking credentials, signed PoAs, client P&L spreadsheets. A lost laptop on a conference floor is a regulatory event — you have legal duties to notify, to investigate, to remediate. None of which you can do well while panicking.
"After a colleague had a laptop stolen at a conference, our firm spent six weeks notifying clients and the data protection authority. We installed Cerberus across the team that month."
Documents are auto-encrypted before the breach window even closes. Fewer notifications, lower exposure, calmer auditors.
Developer The engineer
Source code, signing certificates, AWS keys, .env files, database snapshots. Even with everything stored in version control, your dev laptop has the keys to the kingdom — the kind of credentials that, in the wrong hands, become a competitor's product launch.
"My laptop got lifted from a co-working space at lunch. Without Cerberus I would have spent a week revoking and rotating every credential I had. Instead I rotated the strict minimum and let the encryption do the rest."
Repositories, secrets, and unpushed branches become unreadable to whoever finds the machine.
Project Manager The PM in client services
Roadmaps, vendor contracts, customer pipelines, internal estimates. Compliance officers want assurance that mobile devices are protected. Stakeholders want assurance they're not the next data breach press release.
"Compliance asked us how we protect client data on roaming devices. Cerberus was the first answer that satisfied both legal and IT in the same meeting."
Auditable evidence of automated protection: a real, demonstrable answer to "how do you handle laptop loss?"
Founder The startup CEO
Pitch decks, cap tables, term sheets, IP filings, customer lists, fundraising correspondence. Your laptop isn't a productivity tool — it's the company. Lose it badly and you can lose the round.
"My laptop is my company. If it disappears, the cap table is gone, the IP is gone, the trust of investors is gone. Cerberus is cheap insurance against an existential threat."
Sleep at night during demo trips, road shows, and conferences — knowing the worst case is bounded.
Consultant The independent advisor
You don't have an IT department. You don't have a CISO. You have one laptop and a dozen clients, each of whom signed an NDA assuming you'd take care of their secrets.
"As a one-person consultancy, my laptop being compromised would mean a chain of difficult phone calls to clients. I needed something that didn't depend on me being awake."
Set it once, forget it. The agent is the IT department you don't have.
Researcher The academic / R&D lead
Years of unpublished data, draft papers, peer-review communications, embargoed findings. Disclosure before publication can cost a citation, a grant, sometimes a career.
"My fieldwork data took five years to collect. The laptop with the only working copy was stolen in a hotel. The thief got nothing readable."
Embargoed work stays embargoed. Co-authors stay protected.
