The Second Battlefield:
Critical Infrastructure Under Active Cyber Attack
Modern conflict is no longer fought on a single front. In the latest geopolitical escalation, within hours of kinetic escalation, over 60 hacktivist groups mobilized and critical infrastructure became an immediate target. State-sponsored APT groups moved against energy, banking, and government entities. In one confirmed incident, a nation- state-linked threat actor wiped 200,000+ corporate devices at a major global medical tech company using nothing more than a compromised device management platform.
UAE Cybersecurity Council announces systematic terrorist cyberattacks targeting vital sectors thwarted. Seven days before the escalation began.
UAE Ministry of Interior issues fraud warning where scammers impersonating government officials target UAE residents, requesting Emirates ID numbers and personal data.
Nation-state-linked threat actor compromises 200,000+ devices globally via a hijacked device management platform. UAE Cybersecurity Council also issues active wiper malware warning.
Three entry points. All three actively exploited right now.
Every attack documented in this conflict starts with one of three things. Different groups, different methods — same entry points every time.
Your network traffic is being recorded today.
VPNs are a confirmed primary attack vector and over one in three attacks now target VPNs and home routers to steal credentials and intercept communications. Additionally, state-sponsored actors are harvesting encrypted traffic today to decrypt it when quantum computing matures.
Immediate actions for UAE and GCC critical entities.
The threat is active. These are the steps security leaders should be taking right now, regardless of their current stack.
- Enforce phishing-resistant MFA across all remote access points and privileged accounts
- Move beyond passwords entirely where possible — passwordless architectures store nothing and leave nothing to steal
- Audit all active credentials. Disable dormant accounts and enforce least-privilege
- Monitor for anomalous authentication — repeated failures, unusual geographies, off-hours logins
- Patch all internet-facing VPN gateways immediately — treat outstanding patches as active exposures
- Assess whether your VPN architecture is post-quantum ready — state actors are recording traffic now
- Restrict and monitor all RDP access. Enforce MFA and restrict by source IP
- Review all third-party and supply chain access to your environment
- Deploy behavioral EDR across all servers and workstations — wiper malware has a detectable pattern before full deployment
- Audit all device management platforms — MDM, UEM, RMM. Any platform that can wipe devices at scale is a high-value target
- Ensure no sensitive corporate data resides on physical devices
- Maintain at least one complete offline, air-gapped backup — the only reliable recovery path after a wiper attack
- Test recovery procedures under realistic conditions. An untested backup is an assumption, not a plan
- Activate and update your business continuity and incident response plans now — before an incident, not after
- Begin your post-quantum cryptography readiness assessment
How QuantumGate closes each layer of the attack chain.
Every confirmed attack in this conflict exploits one of three entry points — identity, network, or endpoint. QuantumGate addresses all three with a single sovereign stack, deployable without replacing existing infrastructure.
Passwordless Authentication Experience
Salina removes the credential attack surface by removing passwords from the user experience and eliminates centralized password escrow. Credentials derived cryptographically at the moment of access and never stored. No vault, no password database, nothing to steal. Works on top of your existing AD, ADFS, and Entra ID without replacing them.
- No stored credentials or vault.
- Works with existing legacy systems
- Phishing-resistant passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and SSO
- Fulfils UAE Cybersecurity Council phishing-resistant mandate
Hardened Secure Access
VPNs are a confirmed attack vector, and with the rise of remote work, 38% of attacks now specifically target VPN and remote access infrastructure. Threat actors are exploiting unpatched gateways to establish footholds, intercept traffic, and move laterally through networks. QSphere closes that exposure, hardening remote access, protecting traffic in transit, and reducing your interception surface from day one. Hybrid post-quantum cryptography is built in, extending that protection against threats that are already in motion.
- Perfect forward secrecy — unique encryption keys per session mean captured traffic cannot be reconstructed, even if long-term keys are later compromised
- Connection patterns and communication metadata are hidden
- Cryptography is implemented using UAE‑approved, sovereign libraries
- Compliant with UAE national cybersecurity regulatory requirements
- Hybrid post-quantum cryptography
Virtual Mobile Infrastructure
Removes the device from the risk equation. Applications and data run in a secure virtual workspace and not on the device. A lost or stolen device is a hardware inconvenience, not a security incident.
- Zero corporate data on device
- Instant remote session revocation in seconds
- No MDM required — employee privacy preserved
- Full enterprise functionality — calls, Teams, apps
The QuantumGate Control Plane
Together, Salina, QSphere VPN, and Secure VMI form a unified security architecture that closes identity, network, and endpoint simultaneously; the three layers every major threat actor in this conflict is actively exploiting.
Close the Attack Chain. Deploy Today.
Credentials are being stolen. VPNs are being exploited. Devices are being wiped.
QuantumGate addresses the three entry points within one sovereign stack — deployable without replacing your existing infrastructure.