5 Reasons Intelligence and Defense Personnel Should Change the Way They Work

Managing multiple classified networks is a costly, complex challenge for government and defense organizations. In a recent webinar, Everfox’s Field CTO for Digital Transformation, Adam Maruyama, and Vice President of Product Strategy, Petko Stoyanov, highlighted how agencies can improve mission speed, security, and efficiency with a single workstation multi-classification security solution. By consolidating access across multiple classified environments, defense and intelligence agencies can simplify operations, strengthen zero-trust security, and enable faster, more secure decision-making. Here are 5 reasons agencies should rethink how their people work.

1. Network Sprawl is a Mission Problem, Not Just an IT Problem

Many organizations operate five or more classified networks, each with its own hardware, switches, routers, printers, and accreditation process. This results in thousands of devices, hundreds of network switches, and miles of fiber—creating inefficiencies, slowing decision-making, and expanding the attack surface. Moving between systems can require walking to other buildings, breaking workflows, and delaying critical actions. It also introduces risk in the form of uncleared or lower-clearance contractors having access to classified spaces for maintenance of lower-classification networks. Consolidating access into one device removes these barriers, reducing the burden on end users and network administrators and the risk to the organization while increasing productivity.

2. Consolidation Yields Major Infrastructure and Cost Savings

Running multiple networks means duplicated costs for power, space, cooling, hardware maintenance, and vendor contracts. In one example, a 2,000-user environment initially required 8,300 desktops and over 500 printers. Consolidating network access and printer footprint can reduce printers by more than 60%, cut hardware footprints, and eliminate redundant support contracts—often generating enough savings to fund the consolidation effort itself.

3. Printing is a Hidden Security and Cost Risk

Printers can be a weak point for both cyber and physical security. They are often unmanaged, require uncleared contractor maintenance, and can be exploited for credential theft or network intrusion. Everfox’s Trusted Print Delivery consolidates printing across networks, routes jobs securely to high-side printers, and requires badge or PIN authentication for pickup. This reduces hardware, lowers maintenance costs, and sharply limits the number of low-classification printers (and associated uncleared maintenance visits)—reducing risk exposure.

4. Freeing IT Talent to Focus on Mission Innovation

With multiple networks, IT staff spend much of their time on low-value, repetitive work—maintaining separate desktops, patching systems, and escorting technicians. Consolidating to a single access platform reduces that maintenance burden, allowing skilled personnel to focus on higher-impact projects like deploying new mission tools, improving cybersecurity posture, and integrating emerging technologies. In an environment where skilled cyber and IT professionals are in short supply, shifting their time from “keeping the lights on” to advancing the mission can generate an immediate return.

5. Cross-Domain Solutions Enable Emerging Tech and AI Integration

The key enabler for emerging technologies like AI is not just software — it’s the ability to securely aggregate data from multiple domains in near-real time. Cross-domain access makes it possible to combine sensitive intelligence, coalition data, and open-source information into one mission picture. This accelerates AI model training, improves analytic accuracy, and allows agencies to innovate faster while keeping operations secure. Everfox cross domain solutions preserve data centric security policies as the data is moved across networks of varying classifications and varying owners. This makes zero trust interoperability possible, while preserving network sovereignty.

Change the Way You Work.

Everfox’s cross domain solutions meet NCDSMO requirements and UK NCSC guidelines, enabling secure interconnection across top secret, secret, coalition, and unclassified networks. Select products integrate hardware-enforced isolation (via FPGA technology) to provide additional assurance against threats from traversing from low- to high-side environments. Centralized management reduces the number of accreditations required, freeing compliance teams to focus on zero trust principles and continuous security improvements rather than repetitive multi-network audits.

Multi-classification network sprawl drains budgets, slows missions, and increases security risks. By consolidating access into a single, secure workstation with centralized management, agencies can streamline operations, reduce costs, and enable faster adoption of emerging technologies. Learn how to change the way you and your end users work. Watch One Workstation, All Networks (opens a new window) now.

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