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Season's Greetings and a look ahead to 2026
Season's Greetings and a look ahead to 2026
As 2025 comes to a close, we want to share a few reflections from a year shaped by a rapidly changing threat landscape, tighter regulation, and closer collaboration around secure remote access.
One thing has become clear: secure, documented remote access is no longer optional.
What defined our 2025:
2025 was shaped by close collaboration with customers, partners, and IT and OT cybersecurity experts. Through continuous dialogue and real-world use cases, this work resulted in the introduction of Unified Out-of-Band Access™, a consolidated approach to secure remote access designed for operational reality and regulatory demands.
Why this matters now?
Cyber and hybrid threats increasingly target access paths, compromised credentials, and third-party connections.
At the same time, regulatory pressure is intensifying. Frameworks such as NIS2 and sector-specific requirements are raising expectations for access governance, documentation, traceability, and accountability, placing new demands on how IT and OT teams manage access in practice.
A small teaser for 2026:
Our development roadmap builds on this foundation of real-world operational insight.
In early 2026, we plan to launch Manager 2.0, the next generation of our central management platform with improved usability and new integrations.
Our roadmap candidates for 2026 include strengthened protection and governance on engineering stations with enforced security controls, including enforced two-factor authentication, enforced logging and traceability with optional enforced local screen recording, time-limited access, live session monitoring, and a more flexible ad-hoc tunnel approach with reduced hardware and admin-right requirements for technicians.
As always, we invite our network to reach out if you would like to learn more about the roadmap candidates, or if you have suggestions and ideas that could help shape future development for critical infrastructure.
Thank you!
Progress in this space does not happen in isolation. Thank you to everyone who has contributed feedback, challenged assumptions, and shared operational insight.
With the same focus on technology that works in practice, we look forward to 2026.
Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year,
BifrostConnect
Remote access as it should be.
About the Author:
Emilie Lerche Fenger is the Head of Sales and Marketing at BifrostConnect, where she leads the company’s commercial strategy and cybersecurity aligned market positioning. With eight years of experience working with remote access and critical infrastructure, she focuses on understanding real operational challenges, shaping thought leadership and driving strategic initiatives that support NIS2 readiness and resilient IT OT collaboration.
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