One host breached.Nowhere to go.
Most breaches do not end where they start. Lateral movement is what turns one compromised host into an incident.
One foothold.Every port next door.
Once an attacker has a foothold, the next step is to enumerate the internal network and pivot. Internal hosts are usually far more permissive with each other than anything at the perimeter, and the open ports between them are the path.
Once inside, an attacker maps every host and every service listening on it.
Built for traffic coming in. Lateral movement is east-west, and already inside.
Internal hosts trust each other far more than anything at the perimeter.
Containment by construction.Not by rule.
The port is closed.Not hidden.
SSHepherd closes the listening ports between protected hosts, so an attacker on one machine cannot enumerate or reach the next.
Server-to-server communication that should happen is carried over authorised outbound connections through the broker. Everything else has no path at all — containment by construction rather than by rule.
Only authorised identities are admitted. Every session can be monitored, recorded and ended on demand.
Developed by Full Armor Corporation. Distributed, deployed and supported across Southeast Asia by Auris.
- Nothing listens inbound
- Access via broker only
- Every session monitored
Your team keeps working.Scanners get nothing.
There is nothing adjacent to discover, so one compromised host does not become a route to the estate.
Enumeration from inside the network finds no listening services on protected hosts.
Protected server-to-server traffic is not observable to anything that is not authorised to carry it.
Containment is achieved without re-architecting VLANs or rewriting firewall policy.
Watch it work.
Secure network traffic without open ports. A recorded demo from Full Armor, the developer of SSHepherd®.
Common questions.
How does this stop lateral movement?
Lateral movement depends on finding and reaching a listening service on an adjacent host. SSHepherd removes those listeners, so an attacker with a foothold has nothing to enumerate and no port to pivot through.
Do we have to re-segment the network?
No. SSHepherd sits over the existing infrastructure. You get containment between hosts without redesigning VLANs or rewriting firewall policy.
Will legitimate server-to-server traffic still work?
Yes. Communication that should happen is carried over authorised outbound connections through the broker. Only unauthorised paths cease to exist.
See it onyour own servers.
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