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Clean Environments, Disposable Setups, and the Future of Pentesting Workflows

For decades, physical isolation (the famous air gap) has been the default way to separate sensitive environments. Once acceptable, this approach has turned into a burden for many users. VDI was meant to simplify things but often failed to deliver the performance or user experience organizations needed. Today, hardware and virtualization technologies have matured enough to enable a real shift. In a recent guideline the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI acknowledges that the workstation itself can become the place where isolation is enforced and verified, including for the most sensitive environments. In this article, we explore the promise of multi‑environment workstations, and the challenges organizations must address to adopt them successfully.

For years, IT leaders have faced the same paradox: the more sensitive an environment is, the more cumbersome it becomes for the people who rely on it. Two laptops, restricted rooms, rigid VDI setups: solutions meant to protect often end up slowing everything down. In February, ANSSI addressed this long‑standing tension head‑on. Its guidance on multi‑environment workstations (MEW) outlines an approach that could finally reconcile security, operability, or compliance...including for the most sensitive environments: those labeled “Restricted Distribution”. In one sentence ANSSI’s change the game: “It is therefore possible to obtain the following combinations: NP/NP, NP/RD, and DR/RD, without being limited to two isolated environments.”

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