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Defense and national security

Command links and intelligence that adversaries cannot map.

Armed forces and security agencies now operate over networks they do not own, against adversaries who watch every connection. We make those links invisible and keep intelligence under national control.

Why it matters now

The first cyber strike of the war hit military communications.

On the first morning of the invasion of Ukraine, attackers disabled a satellite network used by military and police units. They got in through a misconfigured VPN appliance, the kind of visible entry point a VIPN (Virtual & Invisible Private Network) removes.

Satellite network · Ukraine · 24 February 2022

Hour one

The attack landed as the invasion began. Western governments said its aim was to disrupt Ukrainian command and control.

Terminals knocked offline

Tens of thousands

Satellite terminals were disabled in a single day. Ukraine's cyber agency called it a huge loss in communications at the very beginning of the war.

Sources: Viasat incident statement, March 2022; Reuters reporting on Ukrainian government contracts, May 2022

Challenges and how we help

Four problems defense organizations raise with us first.

Challenge 01

Encrypted traffic still reveals who talks to whom.

Encryption hides content, not addresses, timing or volume. An adversary watching the network can map a command structure from metadata alone, and every public gateway is a target to scan and attack.

Traffic split across three separate routes between two sites

How we help

VIPN · Virtual & Invisible Private Network

Invisible connectivity · powered by Snowpack technologies

  • Addresses and protocol details stripped from every packet
  • Fragments travel separate routes; no single tap sees the whole
  • Servers reachable without an open port or known address

Network traffic stops revealing your structure.

Challenge 02

Units operate on networks they do not control.

Deployed forces rely on commercial 4G and 5G, satellite services and partner networks. Each carrier and operator is a party you have to trust, and a point an adversary can pressure.

How we help

VIPN with national relay nodes

Virtual & Invisible Private Network · sovereign deployment · powered by Snowpack technologies

  • Runs over any bearer, with no public or static address
  • No need to trust the carrier or any relay node
  • National nodes operated in-country, able to run isolated in a crisis

Use whatever network is available, without trusting it.

Challenge 03

Imagery, analysis and models must stay in national hands.

Geospatial intelligence and AI analysis are often bought as foreign cloud services. That puts the most sensitive data and the dependency outside national control.

Data, model and compute held inside one boundary

How we help

Sovereign geospatial intelligence

Powered by MIRSAD · secured with VIPN

  • One platform, seven applications already developed
  • Deployed in a national cloud, on premises or air-gapped
  • AI models adapted and evaluated on national data

Intelligence capability you own, not rent.

Challenge 04

Unmanned systems widen the attack surface.

Drones, remote sensors and unattended sites all need command and telemetry links. Each link is a way to locate the operator, jam the mission or take control.

Nested security zones with a controlled gateway at every boundary

How we help

VIPN and security architecture

Designed and integrated by Beyond

  • Command and telemetry links carried over VIPN
  • Ground stations and control software hardened end to end
  • Threat review before each new platform enters service

A link that cannot be found is far harder to take.

A sovereign deployment

From headquarters to the last sensor, on infrastructure the nation controls.

National relay nodes connect to the wider network in peacetime and keep working on their own if it is cut.

CommandHeadquarters and C2Sovereign AI and geospatial intelligence run here
In-countryNational relay nodesOperated nationally, isolatable from the wider network
Forward units4G · 5G
Vehicles and vesselsSatellite
Unmanned systemsRadio · satellite
Remote sensorsAny bearer

Every link in orange is carried over VIPN, the Virtual & Invisible Private Network.

How a first project runs

Prove it on one link, then build national capability.

  1. 01

    Threat review

    We map which links, sites and data an adversary could see or reach.

  2. 02

    Pilot on one link

    For example headquarters to one forward site, tested by your own teams.

  3. 03

    National nodes

    Relay nodes installed in-country and handed to national operators.

  4. 04

    Train and support

    National teams trained to run it; Beyond stays accountable after handover.

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