Securing the Single Screen: Kasm & Everfox Redefine Classified Access

McLEAN, Va. – August 20, 2026 – In the world of national security, the physical and digital are often uncomfortably intertwined. For decades, accessing networks of varying classification levels meant a cluttered desk of multiple computers, each a siloed portal to sensitive information. This “endpoint sprawl” has been a persistent source of operational inefficiency, exorbitant cost, and a dangerously expanded attack surface. Today, a strategic partnership between Kasm Technologies and Everfox signals a fundamental shift in this paradigm, aiming to securely consolidate classified access onto a single device.

The collaboration announced today pairs Kasm’s innovative containerized workspace platform with Everfox’s high-assurance cross-domain solutions. The result is a joint offering that allows government, defense, and intelligence personnel to seamlessly and securely access applications and desktops across multiple classification domains from a single endpoint. This isn't merely an incremental improvement; it's a strategic reimagining of the secure government desktop, promising to enhance mission agility while dramatically reducing complexity and risk.

The Technical Foundation: From Sprawl to Streaming

The long-standing challenge for agencies operating in classified environments has been data separation. The traditional solution—using separate hardware for each network—is effective but clunky and expensive. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offered a partial solution, but often replicated this complexity in the virtual realm, requiring multiple VDI stacks and creating its own management headaches. The core vulnerability in both models is the endpoint itself and the risk of data persistence, where sensitive information could be left behind after a session, creating a target for exfiltration.

The Kasm-Everfox solution dismantles this model by embracing two core principles: ephemerality and zero trust. Kasm Workspaces operates by creating ephemeral, container-native sessions for every user interaction. Instead of running an application or desktop on the user's device, the workload runs inside a disposable container in a secure data center. Only an encrypted stream of pixels is sent to the user’s web browser. When the session ends, the container is instantly destroyed, wiping out any trace of the activity and ensuring no data is left behind. This approach effectively isolates the endpoint from the sensitive workload, preventing malware from moving from the device to the network and stopping data from ever residing on the local machine.

This is where Everfox, a leader in high-assurance cybersecurity forged from the former Forcepoint federal division, provides the critical link. Its Trusted Thin Client acts as the secure gateway, a purpose-built, zero-trust endpoint designed for cross-domain access. Compliant with the National Cross Domain Strategy Management Office’s stringent “Raise-the-Bar” (RTB) requirements, the Everfox solution enforces strict access policies, ensuring that a user on a single device can only connect to the specific networks they are authorized to access, with all data flows securely mediated. The combination of Kasm’s ephemeral containers and Everfox’s hardware-enforced domain bridging creates a layered defense that protects data from the cloud to the endpoint.

A Strategic Shift Beyond Legacy VDI

For government IT leaders, this partnership represents a move beyond the rigid and costly confines of legacy VDI. While traditional VDI providers like Citrix and VMware have a significant footprint in government, their solutions can lead to vendor lock-in and require substantial infrastructure investment. The joint offering presents a more flexible and cost-effective path to modernization.

Daniel Ben-Chitrit, Chief Product Officer at Kasm Technologies, highlighted this shift in focus. "Everfox and Kasm work together to securely connect users across domains while modernizing the desktop experience," he stated. "Everfox enables trusted cross-domain access, and Kasm replaces rigid legacy VDI with a flexible, on-premise platform that lets customers evolve their infrastructure without vendor lock-in."

This ability to evolve is crucial. The solution is engineered to integrate with, rather than replace, existing infrastructure. It can be deployed on-premises or in private and public clouds, and it works with existing hypervisors and identity providers. This “no rip-and-replace” approach is a significant benefit for government agencies, which must balance modernization with mission continuity. They can adopt this modern workspace delivery model on top of current investments, transitioning at a pace that doesn't put critical operations at risk. The economic implications are compelling; independent analysis of Everfox's solutions has shown a return on investment of over 260% by eliminating endpoint sprawl and its associated hardware and administrative costs.

Bolstering National Security in the Zero-Trust Era

The strategic importance of this technology extends far beyond IT simplification. It is a direct enabler of the zero-trust architectures that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies are mandated to implement. A zero-trust model assumes no user or device is inherently trustworthy and verifies every access request. The Kasm-Everfox solution embodies this principle by isolating workloads, enforcing strict access controls at the domain level, and ensuring sessions are clean-slated upon completion.

This enhanced security posture has profound implications for national security. By shrinking the physical and digital attack surface, it hardens defenses against sophisticated cyber threats. For intelligence analysts conducting Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), it provides a non-attributable browsing environment that is completely sanitized after each use. For distributed teams and coalition partners, it enables secure, interoperable data access that is essential for joint missions. It even addresses emerging needs, such as providing isolated, secure environments for running sensitive AI and machine learning workloads, protecting both the models and the data they process from compromise.

Ultimately, the ability to securely access multi-level information from a single pane of glass improves more than just efficiency; it enhances situational awareness and accelerates the speed of decision-making. In a world where information advantage is paramount, this partnership provides a foundational technology to help defense and intelligence agencies operate with greater agility and security in an increasingly complex global landscape.