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IGEL Launches Emergency Mode to Enhance Business Continuity

In today’s digital landscape, businesses face an increasing range of cybersecurity threats that can disrupt essential operations. According to the FBI, ransomware complaints surged by over 14% in 2025. To address this dire situation, IGEL, a renowned global software company, has unveiled its latest feature—Emergency Mode—integrated within its IGEL Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) platform. This innovative capability aims to enable organizations to recover secure access swiftly during security incidents or Windows outages.

The Emergency Mode feature allows authorized administrators to centrally reboot IGEL's Dual Boot-enabled endpoints directly into IGEL OS. This process ensures that businesses can maintain secure access to their systems without needing end users to initiate recovery measures. This is particularly crucial in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and government, where continuity of services like patient care and financial transactions is essential.

When a cyber incident occurs, time is of the essence. Traditional recovery methods may restore data and infrastructure but often leave end users unable to work while their Windows endpoints undergo prolonged investigations or repairs. Emergency Mode effectively fills this gap by enabling an expedited transition to IGEL OS, allowing users to resume their work almost immediately while IT teams address the underlying issues. With this feature, businesses can ensure the continuity of operations even amidst critical incidents.

From the Universal Management Suite (UMS), administrators have the flexibility to reboot individual devices, specific groups, or entire fleets of endpoints. This operational containment ensures that once a device is switched to IGEL OS, it remains locked in this environment until an administrator decides otherwise. Simultaneously, the original Windows partition remains intact and isolated, preserving data for forensic analysis while enabling users to continue working without disruption.

Klaus Oestermann, CEO of IGEL, emphasized the significance of this capability by stating, “Organizations have invested heavily in the ability to quickly recover data and infrastructure, but few can recover user access at the endpoint just as quickly. IGEL Emergency Mode closes that gap by giving administrators a controlled way to reconnect people to authorized resources in minutes.”

With IGEL's Emergency Mode, businesses can improve their response timelines during incidents substantially. The recovery time objective (RTO) and the actual recovery time (RTA) experienced by users are often not aligned. This new functionality integrates endpoint access recovery within the incident response framework, ensuring that administrators manage it seamlessly without treating it as a separate issue.

Furthermore, IGEL BCDR with Emergency Mode offers a strategic layer of protection against endpoint compromise, moving devices away from at-risk environments while still facilitating user access. This feature enhances incident response capabilities and enables IT teams to carry out forensic work on the untouched Windows partitions efficiently.

Emergency Mode is now available at no extra cost to existing IGEL BCDR customers, marking a significant advancement in IGEL’s mission to provide a robust security framework conducive to modern business needs. Organizations that want to adopt a more resilient approach to business continuity should explore how IGEL BCDR can be integrated into their operations.

IGEL continues to innovate and align its solutions with today's Zero Trust security models and frameworks, ensuring secure access across varied work environments. With its Global headquarters in Germany and offices in the U.S., IGEL partners with leading technology brands to enhance its offerings further. For more information about IGEL and its advanced recovery solutions, visit www.igel.com.