HERA – The New Standard for Hardware-Enforced Remote Access

Every month, a new critical vulnerability is announced in major VPN and firewall providers. If your remote access relies entirely on software, you’re one stolen credential or zero-day exploit away from a total OT network compromise. As CISA recently warned, critical infrastructure requires something stronger than a password and an encrypted tunnel.

The Solution: Hardware-Enforced Remote Access (HERA)

In this exclusive technical deep dive, Waterfall Security experts – joined by industry veterans Jim McGlone (ASP) and Greg Hale (ISS Source) – unveil a paradigm shift in secure remote access.

What You Will Learn:

• Beyond the VPN: Why traditional software mediated access (Jump hosts, VPNs, Firewalls) fails against modern ransomware.
• The “Physics” of Security: How HERA’s hardware-based logic physically prevents attack propagation, even if credentials are stolen.
• Maintaining Operational Continuity: How to provide vendors and remote teams full-featured access (RDP, SSH, Web) without risking the OT network.
• Real-World Tactics: A roadmap for transitioning your critical sites to hardware-enforced protection.

Industrial networks are more connected than ever, making them “attractive targets” for nation-state actors and ransomware gangs. This session provides a practical, engineering-grade solution to the industry’s most pressing problem: How do we provide access without providing a path for an attack?

Originally recorded as a live launch event, this technical deep-dive remains the definitive guide to the architecture and hardware logic behind the HERA platform.