Resources/Customer stories/Northwind Systems
DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE

Adversary tracking that
holds up in a SCIF.

A defense systems integrator ran threatDefendr air-gapped across classified enclaves — attributing nation-state activity without a packet leaving the boundary.

INDUSTRY
Defense & intelligence
SIZE
Classified enclaves · IL5
DEPLOYMENT
Air-gapped on-prem
REGION
US
ATTRIBUTION TURNAROUNDweeks → hrs
BEFOREweeks
WITH THREATDEFENDR3 hrs
air-gapped · nothing egressed
THE CHALLENGE

Intelligence-grade, inside the wire.

Northwind defended classified networks where nothing — not a hash, not a byte of telemetry — can egress for cloud analysis. Commercial tools assumed a callback home they could never allow, leaving analysts to correlate nation-state activity by hand.

WHERE IT HURT
  • No telemetry may leave the air-gapped boundary
  • Commercial detection assumed cloud callbacks
  • Attribution was manual and took weeks
  • Cross-domain activity had no shared graph
THE APPROACH

The whole platform, inside the boundary.

threatDefendr deployed fully air-gapped, with intelligence and models delivered on a one-way update path. Analysts tracked campaigns and built attribution on a shared graph — all inside the SCIF.

It runs entirely inside the wire and still tracks campaigns like a cloud platform. Nothing egresses, and attribution went from weeks to an afternoon.
JO
James Okafor
Technical Director, Northwind Systems
WHAT CHANGED

The outcome, measured.

Air-gapped
ZERO EGRESS

The full platform runs offline; intelligence arrives on a one-way path and nothing leaves the boundary.

3 hours
ATTRIBUTION TURNAROUND

Campaign attribution that took weeks by hand now resolves in an afternoon on a shared graph.

IL5
AUTHORIZED

Deployed within an IL5 boundary with audited, fully logged break-glass access.

Resources/Customer stories/Northwind Systems
// DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE

Adversary tracking that
holds up in a SCIF.

A defense systems integrator ran threatDefendr air-gapped across classified enclaves — attributing nation-state activity without a packet leaving the boundary.

INDUSTRY
Defense & intelligence
SIZE
Classified enclaves · IL5
DEPLOYMENT
Air-gapped on-prem
REGION
US
// ATTRIBUTION TURNAROUNDweeks → hrs
BEFOREweeks
WITH THREATDEFENDR3 hrs
air-gapped · nothing egressed
// THE CHALLENGE

Intelligence-grade, inside the wire.

Northwind defended classified networks where nothing — not a hash, not a byte of telemetry — can egress for cloud analysis. Commercial tools assumed a callback home they could never allow, leaving analysts to correlate nation-state activity by hand.

WHERE IT HURT
  • No telemetry may leave the air-gapped boundary
  • Commercial detection assumed cloud callbacks
  • Attribution was manual and took weeks
  • Cross-domain activity had no shared graph
// THE APPROACH

The whole platform, inside the boundary.

threatDefendr deployed fully air-gapped, with intelligence and models delivered on a one-way update path. Analysts tracked campaigns and built attribution on a shared graph — all inside the SCIF.

It runs entirely inside the wire and still tracks campaigns like a cloud platform. Nothing egresses, and attribution went from weeks to an afternoon.
JO
James Okafor
Technical Director, Northwind Systems
// WHAT CHANGED

The outcome, measured.

Air-gapped
ZERO EGRESS

The full platform runs offline; intelligence arrives on a one-way path and nothing leaves the boundary.

3 hours
ATTRIBUTION TURNAROUND

Campaign attribution that took weeks by hand now resolves in an afternoon on a shared graph.

IL5
AUTHORIZED

Deployed within an IL5 boundary with audited, fully logged break-glass access.