Fulfillment Center Goes Mobile

While the company has vacated office space and gone virtual, Tempered’s Fulfillment Center has shuttered its doors and gone completely mobile, relocating operations to a moving van. The van makes more efficient use of space as employees gather stock from storage units and save thousands on shipping costs -- making direct local deliveries. Traffic is not a problem due to Seattle’s work-from-home mandates. With the van, associates can take advantage of shifting cost structures as one carrier becomes less expensive than another, for out of state and international freight. A dual-modem Airwall-250 installed in the van provides secure, always-on connectivity for the team. “She really is a beauty to drive around,” said Operations Lead Jaran Thompson, “and I never thought I’d be doing so much driving. The BYV really raises brand awareness.” -- referring to the fact that the Big Yellow Van (BYV) serves the dual purpose of product delivery and mobile advertising.
  Tour the BYV mobile Fulfillment Center   View the current delivery schedule

ConductoVR Interface Enables Augmented Reality Policy

Tempered has partnered with Oculus Rift to provide an immersive, 3D cyber-security experience. With ConductoVR, users can browse policy in cyberspace to encounter a whole new level of visualization. ConductoVR employs an Oculus Quest 2 headset connected to a Windows workstation that communicates with Conductor via a Windows Airwall Agent. “As applications and flows are visualized, you can just motion to redirect bypass rules or cut off access,” noted the company’s first VR engineer, “I mean, the visualization of [data] flows is just awesome.” The engineers have been working on manipulating policies for layer 4 traffic, which improves the Conductor’s ability to specify what applications are accessible on any given network.
  Schedule your hands-on ConductoVR demo now    Watch a virtual policy fly-by demo

CQL Conductor Query Language Enhances Search

The Conductor search box gained a big upgrade in the latest 2.2.11 firmware release. It now supports CQL - Conductor Query Language, for examining devices, overlays, Airwalls, alerts, and other data in the Conductor. “With CQL you can tailor your search to get exactly the results you need,” the lead developer commented, “by writing queries for specific criteria.” The search box is enhanced with tab auto-completion plus a search suggest drop-down list that suggests CQL shortcuts from combined history and predictive search terms.
  Test drive the new CQL-powered search   Submit query language feedback

tn_auto Integrated into Airshell

The Quality Assurance team completed a project to bring tn_auto support to the Airshell command-line interface. The tn_auto tool allows testers to spin up virtual environments for testing various Airwall features. “Now from any test build, I can connect my physical Airwall with a virtual network of Airwalls using the console,” explains a test engineering intern, “And we can connect to any of the test harnesses.” This internal tooling is expected to expand test coverage by 35%, possibly shaving one day from the release candidate testing cycle.

  Sign up for the tn_auto webinar     View the updated Airshell help documentation

Socially Distant Foosball

Developers began trials of a new socially-distant foosball table installed in the Lynnwood common area. The table features three-foot-long poles to keep human players on opposite sides of the table at least six feet apart. Special mirrors are installed to reflect the action to the more distant player vantage point. “I definitely miss using the old table,” noted Mickey Agla, “since you’re not really standing right over the action on the SD [socially-distant] table; but it’s not too bad.” With current state and county guidelines, the table only supports two-player games, as four players would be standing closer than allowed.
  Browse Foosball opening day photo gallery

Secret Agent Software Lands Contract

Tempered won a contract to apply its technology in order to securely monitor employee traffic, after introducing the Secret Agent feature within the Windows Airwall Agent. The Secret Agent variant has a headless installer that can be remotely initiated by administrators. The GUI tray is also hidden, and a transparent hidden NDIS driver intercepts all system traffic. Traffic is typically tunneled to tools that provide intrusion detection and data exfiltration protection.
  Link to the Secret Agent datasheet