Join the Faction Pilot Program!
Become one of our early adopter pilot customers and partners to gain long term licensing discounts, custom integration and a voice in our roadmap priorities
What is the Faction Pilot Program?
Focus Verticals
Smart Manufacturing
Small to mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs)
eHealthcare
OEMs, Platforms and Customers / End Users
Green Energy
OEMs, Platforms and Customers / End Users
Focus Use Cases
Web Cams
If your camera is connected, it is vulnerable. Take it OFF the Internet and accessible only by YOU and devices and users you authorize
Home eHealth Devices
eHealth devices which now populate our homes are not secure!
Developers & IT
Distributed teams that need to share & access Web and on-premise servers and endpoint devices
Frequently asked questions
What is the Faction Pilot Program and Who Should Apply?
The Pilot Program enables organizations in our focus verticals for launch:
- Manufacturing;
- Healthcare;
- Green Energy
to gain early access and full deployment of Faction Networks and Pods at absolutely no cost. We are focused on:
- small to mid-sized businesses;
- MSPs and other IT and cybersecurity service providers that have customers in these verticals.
We also are doing a number of pilot deployments in partnership with larger organizations in each of these verticals. We are certainly open to exploring all such opportunities, but will want to be sure we can properly execute and support all pilots. So please do contact us for a consultation.
How Will Participating Benefit Me?
By becoming one of our early adopter pilot customers and partners, your organization will realize multiple benefits:
- long term licensing discounts;
- free custom deployments and support – and where applicable and feasible – integrations; and
- a voice in our roadmap priorities.
Of course, while gaining all of this, you will be take a major step forward to help protect your workplace, distributed workforce and factories from catastrophic attacks.
What Will I do with Faction Pods If I Don’t Continue?
If you do not continue on to a commercial license with us, you can simply return all of the Pods.
What Kinds of Cameras Can be Secured by Faction Pods
Any type of Web-enabled camera which is external to a PC, Laptop, Smartphone, etc. and will connect via either WiFi or Ethernet to a router in order to transport its video data feed. If it can be connected to a router, it can be connected to a Pod in exactly the same way.
What is a Virtual Private Circuit?
The Faction Virtual Private Circuit (VPC) is a Business VPN replacement for small to midsized organizations or collaborative teams that need to secure distributed workplaces with lots of smart, dumb and legacy devices. VPCs:
- Eliminate the vulnerabilities of VPNs;
- Avoid the pain, complexity and costs of SDNs/ZTNA;
- Help protect your organization – and customers / users – from catastrophic attack.
Why do you call this a “Virtual Private Circuit”?
There was a day when no organization would have ever considered connecting mission critical devices – such as smart manufacturing machinery, home and personal healthcare devices, charging stations and other decentralized infrastructure – directly to the Internet. It is simply too risky.
For 30 years, organizations leased T-1 lines, a secure but costly way to have a totally private network to connect critical machines and devices and the computers and servers that are needed to monitor and control them. But then, something happened: T-1 lines were phased out! One by one, these internal networks were moved onto the Internet and securing these connections become the job of VPNs, Firewalls and SDNs.
Unfortunately, the Internet is fundamentally compromised and more organizations are discovering every day that these tools simply cannot secure mission critical machines and devices/ That’s Why We Created the Faction Virtual Private Circuit
It’s a Simple but Powerful Idea: get your critical users, devices and systems – including cloud servers – OFF of the Internet and into your secure, private Faction Virtual Private Circuit. So, it is similar to the old T1s, but more secure, far less expensive, far more flexible and far easier to manage – or all the expensive hardware and software that is thrown at the unsolvable problem of keeping devices which are connected to the Internet safe!
Are all of the features available now?
No, this is a pre-commercial release private beta version of Faction VPCs focused on the core functionalities:
- Creating and controlling secure, private Faction Networks;
- Adding and managing users – Network Owners, Group Manager and Member;
- Adopting Pods and adding and managing devices they protect;
- Creating and managing Faction Groups to control access for users and devices;
- Private Email and Faction P-Drop file sharing.
During the course of the pilot, new features will be rolling out as move towards our commercial launch. You will also have the opportunity to bring your voice to our priorities and even new features as we learn and understand your needs.
What do you mean by “Legacy Computing Devices”
The world of Smart Manufacturing and eHealthcare are permeated with legacy Devices – whether PCs, servers or embedded in a machine that costs millions of dollars, these are often too expensive and critical to replace, and cannot be upgraded.
What do you mean by “IOT Devices”
IOT Devices tend to have lots of different definitions – and of course this is an incredibly broad space. We are talking about any “thing” which lack computing resource beyond its core function, but can plug into a USB or connects back to routers in any way. Generally, this is sensors, monitors and controllers of all kinds – whether they are in factory, office or home settings.