How do you rethink endpoint security when the threat landscape keeps shifting faster than most organizations can respond?

In this special episode of Across the Tech Pond, I sat down with Klaus Oestermann, CEO of IGEL, alongside co-host Anthony Savvas, live from IGEL Now and Next in Miami. With the backdrop of a fast-moving cybersecurity landscape, this conversation goes straight to the heart of a question many CIOs and CISOs are still grappling with. Are we solving the right problems, or simply reacting to them?

Klaus introduces IGEL’s Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform and explains why he believes the industry has been stuck in a cycle of monitor, detect, mitigate, and remediate for far too long. Instead, he makes the case for a prevention-first model built on an immutable operating system. It is a shift that challenges long-held assumptions about endpoint security, especially in a world where ransomware recovery times can stretch into weeks, while regulatory expectations are measured in hours.

We also explore the real-world implications of this approach. From reducing endpoint costs by as much as 65 percent to enabling near-instant recovery through what IGEL calls its “911 moment,” the conversation moves beyond theory into practical outcomes. Klaus shares how this model is already being adopted across governments, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, where downtime is measured in far more than lost revenue.

There is also a broader discussion around Zero Trust, which many still see as complex and difficult to implement. Klaus argues that the missing piece has always been the endpoint, and that by addressing it properly, the rest of the architecture becomes far more achievable. It is a perspective that invites both agreement and skepticism, especially from organizations heavily invested in traditional security models.

As the episode unfolds, one theme keeps surfacing. Endpoint security has often been treated as a secondary concern, even though it is where most attacks begin. That disconnect raises an uncomfortable question for many leaders. If the endpoint is the front door to your entire organization, why is it still so often left unlocked?

So as you reflect on your own security strategy, are you still preparing to respond to attacks, or are you ready to prevent them in the first place?

Across the Tech Pond is a transatlantic conversation shaped by what we see, hear, and question on the conference floors where enterprise technology decisions are taking shape. In this episode, we reflect on Dynatrace Perform in Las Vegas, one of the industry’s most closely watched gatherings for observability, AI, and security leaders, and unpack what it reveals about where modern IT operations are heading next.

Recorded shortly after the event, the discussion brings together perspectives from the US and Europe to explore how observability has moved well beyond traditional monitoring. Our guest, Bob Wambach, Vice President of Portfolio and Strategy at Dynatrace, offers a grounded view of how causal AI, real-time context, and automated root cause analysis are shaping a new operational baseline for large, complex environments. Rather than focusing on abstract promise, the conversation stays rooted in how global organizations are already using these capabilities to reduce friction, respond faster, and connect technical signals directly to business outcomes.

A central theme of the episode is trust in AI at scale. As enterprises experiment with agent-based systems and increasingly autonomous workflows, visibility into what those systems are doing, why they are acting, and what impact they create becomes non-negotiable. We examine how observability supports that confidence, particularly as AI introduces non-deterministic behavior that traditional tools were never designed to explain. The discussion also touches on why ecosystem partnerships with hyperscalers and platforms like ServiceNow are becoming more important as customers push for fewer handoffs and clearer accountability.

The episode closes by looking ahead. As AI adoption accelerates and operational complexity continues to grow, the ability to understand systems in context, prioritize what matters, and act with clarity will separate progress from noise. Whether you attended Dynatrace Perform or followed the announcements from afar, this conversation offers a clear-eyed look at what observability means in an AI-driven world, and why getting it right now will shape how organizations operate in the years ahead.

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What happens when your cloud, identity, and zero trust strategy are sound, but the endpoint itself becomes the weakest link?

In this episode of Across the Tech Pond, David Marshall, Anthony Savvas, and Neil C Hughes sit down with IGEL CEO Klaus Oestermann to examine a blind spot that many organizations still underestimate. Endpoint resilience. Recorded after the hosts attended IGEL’s major end user computing events in Miami and Frankfurt, the conversation cuts through conference noise to focus on what actually fails when ransomware strikes, and why recovery often stalls at the device level rather than in the data center.

Klaus explains how cloud-first strategies have quietly shifted workloads away from traditional endpoints into VDI, DaaS, and SaaS environments, often accessed through secure browsers. Yet despite this shift, most security strategies still assume the endpoint will simply cope. Drawing on real-world examples and customer data, he outlines IGEL’s preventative security model and why locking down the operating system changes the economics, the risk profile, and the operational reality of end user computing. The discussion also covers IGEL’s latest announcements, from adaptive secure desktops and business continuity options for Windows environments, to AI Armor and the growing role of endpoints in securing decentralized AI workloads.

The episode also explores the wider ecosystem behind IGEL’s approach. With a rapidly expanding network of technology alliance partners, Klaus describes why IGEL positions itself as a neutral platform that brings together application delivery, identity, security, and hardware vendors rather than trying to own the entire stack. The hosts challenge him on cost savings, analyst blind spots, and why endpoint resilience still receives so little attention compared to cloud and zero trust narratives.

As organizations face Windows 10 end-of-support, rising compliance pressure, and increasingly targeted attacks, this conversation offers a grounded look at what actually keeps people working when things go wrong. If endpoint security has been an afterthought in your strategy, is it time to rethink where resilience really begins, and what happens when the endpoint fails?