SIGNAL Executive Video: Game-Changing Solutions for Critical Infrastructure Protection

With online networks and the cyber front expanding every day, having cyber defense technology that is lightweight and rapidly evolving becomes vital to safety and security. Sealing Technologies (SealingTech) is a defense contractor utilizing the agile development method to bring purpose-built products and defensive cyber solutions to empower warfighters. 

SealingTech, a PARSONS Company, sets itself apart from the competition in the field of cyber hunt kit deployment by looking back at seven years of supporting cyber protection teams to allow them to bring prototypes into the field in months instead of years.  

“We've taken a lot of lessons learned from those past seven years, and as we've seen this explosion in generative AI, machine learning and how it applies to cybersecurity, we asked ourselves, ‘How do we provide that capability to cyber warfighters to address some of the challenges that they've encountered?’” said Andres Giraldo, director of innovation at SealingTech. 

SealingTech is no stranger to the artificial intelligence (AI) boom as it has its own large language model called Operator X, meant to allow U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) operators to interface with its cyber toolkit using natural language, reducing training times and allowing junior team members to operate on a similar level to their peers.

But this isn’t the only use case for Operator X, according to SealingTech Director of Growth Dave Shortt. “We see Operator X being a substantial help for [foreign partners] where they can train the operators to be analysts; they don't need to train them to be system administration.” Operator X lets people who don’t have extensive cybersecurity training operate cyber systems without the language of an expert, bridging the gap for those in the cyber workforce. SealingTech also sees Operator X as a useful tool for maintaining the security of online networks as more devices are brought online. 

SealingTech’s ability to get products out the door quickly comes from its adoption of the agile methodology for engineering. “We really lean heavily into our small business roots, and we've looked at how we approach the product development,” Shortt said. “This has allowed us to be a step ahead as we look at commercially available products, where do we see a gap. And then leaning on the internal resources and our agile processes, we're able to quickly turn out capabilities like the AegisEdge.”

The AegisEdge microserver is another of SealingTech’s products, an alternative to standard server racks that are much smaller, allowing them to be more versatile.

“It's not cost-efficient to put these rack-mounted servers throughout [a] power plant at every single sensor,” Giraldo said. “So with the AegisEdge, they're really low cost, low swap, really small devices that fit in the palm of your hand.”

Being so small and easily swappable, the AegisEdge also squares with SealingTech’s move toward modularity. SealingTech is committed to cutting out the fluff from its work. The company doesn’t see value in dishing out the same product on every delivery for a given contract; they rather take out what doesn’t work and put in what does. 

SealingTech utilizes customer feedback in development to bring about the best products possible. Experts watch what is used by the customer as much as they watch what isn’t used to make sure everything the company produces is not just useful, but used often, in pursuit of efficiency and low costs. 

Giraldo said of SealingTech going forward that a guiding question for the company is, “How do we continue to provide capability for the warfighter in a cost-effective manner?”