#GAPPED DEFINITION INSTALL#

Sneakernet installation, we called it, meaning someone would need to walk in with a disk or drive and manually execute the install onto the target air gapped system. No checking for version updates and patches.

No calls out to external authentication providers. Old hacks like myself with some history of supplying software for banks and government agencies have encountered the need for air gapping - basically, installing onto a system that is not connected to the Internet at all - nor any network that could offer any port for security breaches to occur.īasically, air gapping is the purest form of on-premises software delivery, in that absolutely everything needed for that software to run must be packaged for local installation and ready to run disconnected from any network. If you are new to the concept of airgapping, that’s OK. The push for off-premises migration of software has never been stronger -by some architectural estimations, it’s taken for granted that most applications should move to the cloud in the next couple of years if they are not there already.īut wait, why are some companies hitting that big red disconnect button today, and doing on-prem air gap software installs? The Origins of Air Gapping To be agile and responsive, you must orchestrate the delivery of applications across some kind of hybrid public or private cloud, which could be provisioned from service providers, called via APIs from a marketplace, or deployed into ephemeral cloud-native micro services. Now, even one flavor of cloud is no longer good enough for most highly distributed software applications. By Jason English ( ) – Intellyx | Part 1 of the Intellyx On-Prem Innovation Series

Gapped definition