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Airgap: Protecting Critical Assets and Infrastructure

Arun Penmetsa

April 5, 2022

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Cybersecurity investment has grown significantly in the last decade. However, data breaches and attacks continue to occur at an increasing rate. The increased sophistication of corporate infrastructure makes it even harder to secure the network, users and their data. While a number of tools try to prevent breaches before they happen, companies still suffer from a variety of successful ransomware, phishing and malware attacks — every day. Once a breach happens, there is little to prevent the lateral propagation of the attack. A single infected device on a trusted network can propagate ransomware and bring down the entire network. Stopping the attack and recovery often takes a long time and it might even be necessary to physically pull cables to take infected parts offline.

A common way to address this problem is to place agents on every asset to detect and mitigate— however, this approach is heavyweight and expensive. Often, it’s not even feasible in cases where the infrastructure is antiquated. Industries like manufacturing, transportation, energy, government, healthcare and most of our critical infrastructure don’t have a viable solution, making them particularly vulnerable and prime targets for attackers. This is a huge security and strategic challenge. Airgap addresses this massive problem.

“People have been trying to solve this problem for decades. Airgap has a unique approach to respond to threats. It is a great paradigm shift” — customer

A unique approach: Anywhere Agentless Zero Trust Segmentation

Airgap offers an agentless, zero-trust network segmentation solution that partitions assets into networks of one and isolates endpoints. This offers unprecedented visibility into a company’s assets, reduces the organization’s attack surface and prevents lateral propagation of security breaches.

Until recently, the value of segmenting local area networks into security zones was widely recognized yet rarely performed successfully. Many industrial operations, such as power, oil and gas, power, maritime, and utilities, already pursue a network isolation policy of sorts, by enforcing segmentation between the corporate IT networks and the Industrial/operations networks. However, that’s typically where their efforts at segmentation come to an end, mostly due to the expense and complexity of doing finer grained segmentation.

Airgap’s platform, on the other hand, provides a zero trust security posture that is the industry’s only platform that augments an organization’s existing infrastructure and can Isolate Your Vulnerabilities Anywhere.

“Airgap isolated the malware immediately while we worked to fix the system. Wish I had this 15 years ago.” — customer

Support for all endpoints — past, present, and future. Airgap provides these protections on all devices (managed or unmanaged), regardless of whether they are on corporate or public networks. Airgap is live today with customers, including those working with old Windows 95 to Docker containers and everything in between.
Airgap is completely agentless, which makes it faster and far easier to manage. In just minutes, they can deploy a unified solution (all across the organization, including LAN, data centers, and the cloud).
Airgap provides an autonomous policy framework that makes it easier to enforce business policies as assets enter and leave the network while giving transparency into the security controls. This also dramatically reduces the IT and security teams’ operational burdens, allowing them to focus on monitoring and other security investments.
Airgap provides a Ransomware Response Readiness Service (R3S), with a “kill” button enabling customers to respond and immediately contain an active ransomware attack. Its Ransomware Kill Switch™ is the industry’s only software switch that can be applied to stop ransomware in its tracks.
Airgap achieves all of this with no changes to the network stack.
In today’s remote world, a solution like Airgap makes it far easier to secure remote workers and protect mission-critical private apps when the network is larger, more distributed and ever changing.
Airgap can also give insights and visibility into workloads and provide isolation at a workload level for more fine grained management.
All of this is supported by a comprehensive marketplace with integrations into common enterprise applications to provide a robust and modern security platform.

Customers across multiple industries have relied on Airgap to address vulnerabilities and rapidly respond to breaches. But, this is just the start. Airgap is developing a modern security platform that will be vital to protecting and securing our most critical assets.

“The ease of deployment and management is incredible. Earlier I had to physically pull plugs and switches to stop an attack. Now I just throttle the kill switch up and down” — customer

An Incredible Team

One of the most exciting parts about Airgap is the experience and strength of the team. Ritesh, Satish and Vinay and the rest of the team have decades of experience building and scaling security and infrastructure products across industry leaders. Airgap represents a paradigm shift in how we build and secure our networks and assets. We are thrilled to partner with the team on their journey. If you’d like to join the team on their journey, Airgap is hiring! And if you’d like a demo of their unique solution, make sure to reach out to the company here.

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