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IGEL Enhances Business Continuity with New Emergency Mode

In an ever-evolving digital landscape, organizations face increasing threats from cyberattacks and technical failures. IGEL, a recognized leader in software solutions, has announced the launch of its Emergency Mode, a key feature of the IGEL Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) framework. This state-of-the-art solution empowers businesses to recover secure access within minutes, allowing them to maintain operations even during critical incidents.

What is IGEL Emergency Mode?

IGEL's Emergency Mode can be activated by authorized administrators during security incidents, ransomware attacks, or Windows system failures. This innovative feature allows for the central deployment of managed endpoints via IGEL Dual Boot™ within IGEL OS. By enabling immediate reinstatement of secure access, Emergency Mode minimizes disruption caused by incidents, ensuring that employees can resume their duties as quickly as possible.

According to the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report, there was a significant uptick in ransomware complaints, with a 14.42% increase compared to the previous year. As advanced threats continue emerging, the need for effective recovery solutions becomes more critical.

Overcoming Operational Challenges

Organizations can typically restore data centers, networks, and applications rapidly. However, if affected endpoints are still under investigation or restoration, productivity is hindered. Emergency Mode addresses this gap by facilitating a controlled reboot of devices to operate under IGEL OS, thereby circumventing the need for a complicated recovery process initiated by end-users.

For critical sectors such as healthcare, financial services, and public administration, maintaining service continuity is imperative. By restoring secure access within mere minutes during crises, businesses can ensure ongoing patient care, transactions, and essential public services while incident response teams analyze and resolve the issues affecting Windows environments.

Through the Universal Management Suite™ (UMS™), administrators can reboot individual devices, specific groups, or entire fleets of endpoints, ensuring that devices remain locked in IGEL OS until administrators choose to restore them to Windows. In the event of an incident, the Windows partition is isolated for forensic analysis, enabling security teams to conduct investigations while users continue to operate on the same device, connecting to authorized applications and resources.

A Strategic Response to Security Incidents

"Organizations have invested significantly in the ability to recover data and infrastructure quickly, but few can similarly expedite endpoint access recovery," said Klaus Oestermann, CEO of IGEL. "Emergency Mode fills this gap, providing administrators with a controlled approach to reconnect users to authorized resources in just minutes."

IGEL's BCDR solution is based on a three-step strategy: reboot, reconnect, and resume work. By preventing endpoint security breaches, organizations can mitigate risks by moving managed devices out of compromised Windows environments and restoring secure access during prolonged investigation and remediation activities.

"The desired recovery time objective (RTO) and the actual recovery time (RTA) during incidents frequently differ," stated Sterling Wilson, Field CTO of Continuity & Disaster Recovery at IGEL. "Emergency Mode integrates endpoint access recovery into the incident response timeline, eliminating the need for administrators to manage it as a separate project on a device-by-device basis."

Conclusion

IGEL BCDR™ with Emergency Mode complements initiatives related to data resilience, security operations, incident response, threat mitigation, and safe endpoint functionality. It ensures continuous access while maintaining the Windows partition in its original state, allowing security and IT teams to perform investigative and recovery tasks effectively.

Emergency Mode is available at no additional cost to eligible IGEL BCDR™ customers, enabling organizations to enhance their response capabilities seamlessly. For more information, visit IGEL's website.

With the relentless rise of cybersecurity threats, solutions like IGEL's Emergency Mode are essential for ensuring business continuity, safeguarding critical operations, and fostering resilience in today's interconnected world.