What happened
Israeli cybersecurity startup Zeroport announced a $10 million seed funding round to commercialize its non-IP based remote access platform called Fantom. The company’s solution is designed to address fundamental security flaws in legacy remote access technologies, especially IP-based VPNs and similar tools that have been implicated in widespread compromises including the U.S. CISA breach and other high-profile intrusions.
Who is affected
Enterprise security teams and organizations relying on traditional remote access solutions are the primary stakeholders. Zeroport’s founders, CEO Joseph Gertz, CTO Lavi Friedman, and COO Rotem Kalmi, bring experience from Israel’s elite Unit 81 and argue that current IP-based remote access creates exploitable network attack surfaces.Â
Why CISOs should care
Remote access remains a critical attack vector for ransomware gangs, espionage actors, and opportunistic threat groups. Traditional VPNs or IP-based gateways often allow malware ingress and unauthorized lateral movement once breached. Zeroport’s hardware-anchored, non-IP approach, where inbound interactions are limited to human controls and outbound communication is pixel streams only, represents a departure from that model. For CISOs, this raises important questions about whether new architectural approaches can materially reduce exposure to remote-access threats and related lateral compromise risk.Â
3 practical actions
- Evaluate remote access architecture: Inventory existing remote access methods (VPN, RDP, zero trust access) and map how each relies on IP connectivity that could be abused if compromised.
- Benchmark alternatives: Conduct proofs of concept with hardware-based or zero-trust solutions that minimize network attack surface and enforce strong human interaction controls.
- Update breach scenarios: Incorporate non-IP remote access failure modes into incident response playbooks and tabletop exercises to assess detection and recovery readiness.