The move to 47-day SSL certificates is a major step toward a more secure, automated internet. While it introduces new challenges, especially for organizations relying on manual processes, it ultimately pushes the ecosystem toward greater resilience and trust.
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Cloud security isn’t just about having the right solutions in place — it’s about determining whether they are functioning correctly.
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Real-time data governance provides security and privacy teams with immediate visibility into what is happening, allowing them to stop a problem before it becomes a crisis.
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Empowering employees with critical thinking and transparency to combat synthetic media impersonations and fortify organizational defenses.
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The notorious Hunters International RaaS group that racked up hundreds of victims over two years says it's shutting down and offering decryption software to victims, but security pros say this happens regularly in the cybercriminal world and that the threat actors likely will return affiliated with other operations.
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A Barracuda Networks analysis of unsolicited and malicious emails sent between February 2022 to April 2025 indicates 14% of the business email compromise (BEC) attacks identified were similarly created using a large language model (LLM).
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By breaking down internal silos, leveraging advanced technology and embracing industrywide cooperation, organizations can shift from reactive to proactive fraud prevention to protect revenue and reputation while supporting sustainable business growth.
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There is no question that vulnerability scanning and patch management remain necessary, but they are clearly no longer sufficient
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Understanding the difference between Shadow IT and BYOC, although subtle, requires different policies, procedures and technology to resolve.
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Researchers from NordVPN and Silent Push uncover separate brand-spoofing campaigns that involve tens of thousands of fake websites impersonating real plans that are used to lure victims to hand their data and money to threat actors.
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Data security governance provider Concentric AI announced its acquisition of Swift Security and Acante, two AI-driven security startups, in a move Concentric AI founder and CEO Karthik Krishnan hopes will reshape enterprise data protection.
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Security operations platform provider Blumira today released an intelligence assessment that tracked 824 security incidents attributed to Iranian threat actors over 21 months, providing insights into recent Iranian threat activity.
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A report published this week by Netcraft, a provider of a platform for combating phishing attacks, finds that large language models (LLMs) might not be a reliable source when it comes to identifying where to log in to various websites.
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The future of API security is not just about better firewalls — it is about smarter governance, automation and visibility at scale.
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When you design agentic AI with governance at the core, you stay ahead of risk and avoid reactive fire drills.
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With empowered advocates and continuous measurement, teams can navigate the fine line between compliance, rule adherence and creative freedom.
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Businesses must take the threat of identity-based attacks seriously and adapt their cybersecurity practices to address this challenge.
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The DOJ announced a far-reaching operation that aimed to knock out a substantial number of North Korean IT worker scams that have victimized more than 100 U.S. companies that unwittingly hired North Korean operatives as remote workers, who then stole data and money to support the Pyongyang regime.
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We are pleased to feature a guest post from Jaime Halscott, Senior Technology Evangelist at IGEL. With a unique background that blends deep technical expertise, C-level experience, and a law degree, Jaime plays a key role in IGEL’s global alliances, including its work with Dispersive Stealth Networking. In this piece, he explores how stateless endpoints, secure virtual desktops, and stealth networking come together to support Zero Trust strategies in the field.
Part One: The OperatorThe rain hadn’t stopped in days.
In a cramped apartment nestled in the heart of a bustling foreign capital, the man sat quietly, sifting through a local newspaper he’d never actually read. He was clean-cut but unassuming, blending in with the thousands of expats and NGO workers who flooded the city. His name wasn’t his own. It changed with the country. His accent shifted like water. His past, if it existed, had been burned away long ago.
He was a ghost. But even ghosts need tools.
Perched beside an aging electric kettle on the apartment’s rickety table was an off-the-shelf Windows laptop—an unremarkable model, cheap, dented at the corners. On first glance, it looked like something a college student would use to scroll Reddit or work on a term paper. A quick inspection revealed browser bookmarks for local job boards, a cluttered desktop with family photos, a spreadsheet of household expenses—every detail meticulously planted to look perfectly boring.
He plugged in a small device—sleek, matte black with a keypad on the front. The Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3. He tapped in his code. The LED flashed green.
Moments later, the laptop bypassed Windows entirely, booting into IGEL OS, an ultra-lightweight, hardened Linux environment that ran exclusively from the encrypted thumb drive. Within seconds, his real mission began.
Through the IGEL interface, he launched a connection to his Omnissa Horizon virtual desktop, a secure image hosted thousands of miles away on government-controlled infrastructure back in the United States. Everything he needed—classified documents, operational files, AI-enhanced reconnaissance tools—lived in that virtual machine. Nothing was stored locally.
But that wasn’t enough. In this country, the regime’s surveillance apparatus was sophisticated—watching, listening, inspecting packets of network data for even the faintest whiff of foreign interference.
That’s where Dispersive Stealth Networking came in.
His IGEL environment was configured to automatically tunnel all communications through Dispersive’s software-defined network, a multi-path, encrypted transmission system originally built to withstand cyber warfare. His traffic splintered into dozens of encrypted fragments across dynamic channels—unreadable, untraceable, unstoppable.
Even if someone intercepted a piece of it, it would be meaningless on its own.
He exhaled, cracked his fingers, and began typing. The world around him could crumble—but his data, his access, his mission—they were untouchable.
He was in and out of the system within 22 minutes.
When he was done, he ejected the Secure Key. If compromise ever came—if boots crashed through the door or an asset flipped—the key could be wiped in seconds with a single button press. Not even the NSA could recover it after that.
He was already gone before anyone knew he was there.
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Part Two: The Technology Behind the Tradecraft IGEL OS: A Hardened, Stateless EndpointIGEL OS is a lightweight, read-only Linux-based operating system optimized for secure access to virtual environments and cloud workspaces. Unlike traditional operating systems, IGEL is designed to be stateless, minimizing the attack surface and eliminating local data storage.
Technical Advantages- Immutable OS architecture: The operating system runs from a read-only partition. This prevents tampering, ensures consistency, and eliminates the risk of persistent malware.
- No local attack vector: Without locally stored data or user applications, the risk of lateral movement by threat actors is greatly reduced.
- Chain of trust: IGEL supports UEFI Secure Boot and TPM-based chain of trust, ensuring every boot component is verified before loading.
- Modular deployment: The OS is highly modular and can be deployed on a wide range of x86 hardware—even as a live environment from USB (as in our fictional operator’s use case).
- Policy enforcement: Centralized configuration via IGEL UMS ensures endpoints remain compliant regardless of location or connectivity status.
The Secure Key is more than just a thumb drive—it’s a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated device with onboard AES-XTS 256-bit encryption and physical brute-force protection.
Security Features- Onboard PIN authentication: No software required—access control happens directly on the device using a built-in keypad.
- Hardware-based encryption: Full AES-256 encryption in XTS mode, performed in hardware before the host ever touches the data.
- Auto-lock and brute force response: Configurable settings allow for rapid auto-lock, and after a preset number of incorrect attempts, the device crypto-erases itself.
- Secure wipe: A single command can trigger an instant full-key wipe, ensuring total data destruction in seconds.
Omnissa Horizon provides centralized, cloud-hosted or on-prem VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), enabling access to a fully contained digital workspace. When coupled with Dispersive Zero Trust Network Access, it becomes a zero-trust gateway and remote access client with integrated authentication, conditional access, and federated identity services.
Key Architectural Components- Dispersive VTC Endpoint and Gateway: High-performance multipath optimized for remote access, minimizing bandwidth in lossy conditions while offering real-time network encryption and secure isolation and connectivity to users, devices and workloads.
Dispersive Stealth Networking: Dynamic, Multi-Path Networking Built for Threat EvasionDispersive Stealth Networking takes a fundamentally different approach to secure networking—drawing from concepts originally developed for military communications. Rather than routing data through a single encrypted tunnel like a traditional VPN, it breaks data into multiple encrypted shards, each routed independently.
Core Technical Features- Multipath UDP tunneling: Dispersive splits traffic into streams sent over multiple UDP paths simultaneously, increasing resilience and minimizing detection.
- Dynamic path shifting: The system adapts in real time to congestion, latency, or threats, re-routing shards via alternate paths without breaking sessions.
- Forward error correction and reassembly: Packets are reassembled only at the trusted endpoint, and lost fragments are recovered using advanced FEC algorithms.
- End-to-end obfuscation: Beyond encryption, Dispersive cloaks the traffic signature itself—making DPI (deep packet inspection) and traffic fingerprinting ineffective.
- Ideal for environments where nation-state surveillance, DPI, or BGP and offline decrypt or attribution of the user using hijacking and other interception methods are real threats.
- Supports deployment in air-gapped, low-bandwidth, or high-latency networks common in DoD and tactical field environments.
Feature
IGEL OS
Omnissa Horizon + Workspace ONE
Dispersive Stealth Networking
Local Data Footprint
Zero
Zero
Zero
OS Attack Surface
Minimal
N/A (remote execution)
N/A
Encryption
None at OS level; uses Secure Key
TLS, host isolation
AES-256 + traffic obfuscation
Access Control
UMS policies + BIOS boot restrictions
Contextual access + Multi-Factor Authentication
Identity-aware encrypted endpoint access
Ideal Scenarios
Tactical field use, remote endpoints
Controlled, compliant access to critical systems
Covert comms in surveillance-heavy regions
Final ThoughtsCombining these tools creates an operational framework that is:
- Invisible to attackers
- Secure by default
- Centralized, yet decentralized in deployment
- Compliant with Zero Trust and federal cyber mandates
Whether you’re deploying for field intelligence, critical infrastructure, or commercial enterprises facing nation-state threat actors, this integrated approach delivers the highest possible assurance without sacrificing mobility or speed.
To learn more, please reach out to schedule a demo or consultation.
Header image courtesy of Sergey Gricanov from Pixabay.
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