We’re thrilled to announce the launch today of NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition, specifically designed for organizations operating in highly secure environments such as financial services, government, defense, and critical infrastructure. Since the launch of NetBox Enterprise earlier in 2024, a surge in demand from these sectors has driven the need for a product to meet the unique challenges faced by network and infrastructure teams operating in fully disconnected, secure environments. NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition is purpose built to be deployed and operated in isolated networks to enable teams to leverage the benefits of the world’s most popular network source of truth to operate, understand, automate, and secure their networks and infrastructure.
Organizations in secure environments often encounter difficulties throughout the entire lifecycle of implementing and supporting software like NetBox. As in many other sectors, these teams want to modernize their networks and infrastructure with NetBox, but are held back because they can’t leverage mainstream approaches for software lifecycle management. Key challenges include:
- Delivery: Transferring NetBox Enterprise installation artifacts and updates without internet connectivity.
- Support: Working with NetBox Labs expert support when operating isolated systems that prevent most data sharing.
- Integration: Ensuring compatibility between NetBox Enterprise and existing security protocols.
Introducing the NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition: The NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition is designed to overcome these challenges by providing a solution tailored for secure, isolated environments. NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition delivers the control, reliability, and capabilities of NetBox Enterprise, and additionally includes:
- Custom Deployment Options: Installation and update processes are designed to meet air gap requirements. This includes packaging all components into a single downloadable package, allowing for secure transfer into the network without the need for external components.
- Dedicated Support Protocols: NetBox Labs provides specialized support services tailored to the unique needs of air gapped systems. This includes extracting support bundles from the system in a way that ensures the integrity and confidentiality of the air gap environment is maintained, including data anonymization.
- Enhanced Security Features: NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition meets strict security protocols and is covered by the NetBox Labs SOC 2 Type II report, and each package is bundled so customer security teams can apply their appropriate scanning and validation policies before deployment.
Customer Use Cases:
- “Tier 1” Services in Classified Government Network: One NetBox Labs customer, a US federal government agency operating critical national infrastructure, needs the advanced features and capabilities of NetBox Enterprise, along with enterprise-grade support from NetBox Labs, with NetBox delivering “tier 1” critical services in the network. The agency must meet stringent security and regulatory requirements to ensure the safety of its systems, which include classified networks that are fully disconnected from the internet, to which software may only be deployed via self-hosted artifact repositories subject to their own strict requirements. NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition meets all these needs, enabling the agency to leverage NetBox Enterprise’s operational benefits and features like collaboration with NetBox Change Management.
- Flexible Deployments in Ad Hoc Field Environments: Another NetBox Labs customer, a major national defense contractor, leverages NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition to meet requirements for rapidly deployed secure field networking environments. The contractor depends on NetBox for classified advanced technology projects, and needs to couple robust access controls and audit capabilities with secure and flexible deployments in the field. NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition balances the power and flexibility of NetBox with the security profile of the contractor’s use case.
Partner Insights:
- Dan Wade, Network and Infrastructure Automation Practice Lead, BlueAlly, shared, “As a key partner for government and major enterprises with complex networks and equally complex security and regulatory requirements, we’re thrilled to see NetBox Labs bring NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition to market. Our customers love NetBox and it’s often a key part of the network automation projects we undertake. This new product edition means we can harness the power of NetBox Enterprise to address the security needs of customers. This is a game changer in isolated environments.”
- Chris Tilley, CEO, CriticalTilt, said, “We’ve deployed and operated NetBox for government agencies with strict security and policy requirements in classified networks. NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition is a big deal for agencies operating classified infrastructure. NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition’s streamlined operations, features like NetBox Change Management for applying change policies, and secure support data bundles make the product well suited to the needs of the most secure and high scale infrastructure environments.”
To learn more about NetBox Enterprise Air Gap Edition or discuss your specific needs, please contact the NetBox Labs sales team. You can also read more about NetBox Enterprise’s features and benefits, and review NetBox Enterprise pricing and options.
