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Adept Resilience Systems
Offline Update · Air-Gapped Networks
Mission-Critical Cyber Resilience

Offline Update Orchestration for Air-Gapped & High-Side Networks

Adept Resilience Systems is a veteran-owned cyber firm led by Marete M. Kirimi. We design update, compliance and integrity pipelines for enclaves that cannot depend on the cloud. No marketing hype. No compliance theatre. Just architectures that survive contact with reality.

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Cyber resilience for air-gapped networks

What We Actually Do

Adept Resilience Systems exists for one job: make sure your disconnected or classified networks can update, harden and prove integrity without ever trusting the internet.

WSUS Replacement & Offline Update Architecture

For DoD, IC and critical infrastructure enclaves

  • Design of offline mirroring and patch distribution workflows
  • Deterministic update cycles with full audit trails
  • Air-gap transfer patterns that don’t break your ATO
  • Own the pipeline: you choose what crosses the boundary, not the cloud

STIG-Aligned Hardening & Evaluation

ASLR, memory protection, insider-threat reality

  • Translate DISA STIGs into concrete host configurations that actually ship
  • Elevate “low-priority” controls like ASLR where insider risk is high
  • Integrate SCAP / CKL / ARF outputs into risk-aware remediation plans
  • Produce hardened baselines that hold up under CCRI and ATO scrutiny

Cyber Resilience Consulting

For teams who care more about uptime than slides

  • Architectures that assume limited or no external connectivity
  • Rollback and verification tuned to mission tempo
  • Design reviews for integrators building high-side or air-gapped systems
  • Honest assessments: what will and won’t survive contact with operators

Founder & Principal Architect

Adept Resilience Systems was founded by Marete M. Kirimi, CISSP — a cybersecurity engineer and former U.S. Army Signal & Cyber Communications Specialist whose career has been shaped by real operational pressure, mission-critical systems and uncompromising technical standards.

Professional Background

  • Cyber Security Engineer supporting federal programs with STIGs, SCAP, RMF, POA&Ms and ATO readiness
  • Architect of secure baselines, vulnerability management pipelines and continuous monitoring operations
  • Developer of offline update, STIG automation and integrity verification systems for air-gapped networks
  • Experience across Nessus Security Center, ACAS, SCAP Compliance Checker, Windows/Linux hardening and Cisco/Juniper networking
  • Background in enterprise IT, systems administration, data engineering and secure network architecture

Military Service & Accolades

Served as a U.S. Army Satellite Communications and Cyber Specialist, supporting defensive cyber operations, incident response, STIG validation and SATCOM system hardening.

  • Army Achievement Medal (4)
  • Army Good Conduct Medal
  • Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal & Service Medal
  • Korea Defense Service Medal
  • National Defense Service Medal

Certifications

  • CISSP — (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • DoD 8570-aligned cybersecurity training and operational credentials

Education

  • B.S. Computer Information Systems — Arizona State University

His engineering philosophy is simple: build systems that stay secure, stay predictable, and stay operational even when everything around them is on fire.

Patent: Adaptive Offline Update Orchestration System

Adept Resilience Systems is built on an original, patented architecture designed for environments where cloud-connected patching is impossible or unacceptable. The system introduces a deterministic, tamper-resistant update pipeline engineered specifically for air-gapped, classified, and high-assurance networks.

Patent Overview

  • USPTO Provisional Patent: 63/918,785
  • Defines a full offline update orchestration method for disconnected enclaves
  • Eliminates cloud trust assumptions in patch delivery pathways
  • Establishes deterministic, auditable update sequencing
  • Integrates cryptographic validation, vendor integrity checks, and STIG mappings
  • Reduces supply-chain risk and insider-threat exposure across the update boundary

Core Innovations

  • Secure mirror acquisition using multi-step integrity verification
  • Update transformation pipeline for air-gap transport (VMDK, removable media, etc.)
  • Automated STIG-aligned compliance snapshotting pre- and post-patching
  • Risk scoring model that elevates dormant or boundary-crossing code anomalies
  • Closed-loop validation to ensure update provenance and baseline consistency

Operational Advantages

  • Zero cloud dependency — no external API, CDN, or update server trust
  • Predictable behavior during outages, isolation, or contested network conditions
  • Consistent ATO evidence generation through cryptographic logs and baselines
  • Suitable for DoD, IC, utilities, industrial control, and other high-assurance systems
  • Minimizes attack surface created by traditional patching workflows

Purpose

Modern systems assume online patch channels. Mission-critical networks cannot. This patented architecture bridges that gap by providing a secure, closed, and strictly controlled update flow that preserves integrity all the way from the vendor to the endpoint — without ever touching the cloud.

How We Work

Adept is built for people who don’t have time for cute stories. You bring the mission and constraints. We bring ruthless clarity and working systems.

01 · Reality-First Discovery

We start with how your enclave actually runs: change windows, classification levels, insider threat profile, cross-domain flows, and what your operators really do at 02:00.

02 · Architecture & Threat Model

We map update, rollback, and verification paths. Everything that crosses the boundary is treated as hostile until proven otherwise. STIGs, ATO, and supply-chain risk are baked in.

03 · Lab Punishment

Candidate designs are deployed into Kirimi Lab, attacked, broken, and tuned until they hold. Only architectures that survive lab abuse get proposed as production options.

04 · Operational Playbooks

We deliver procedures your team can actually run: who does what, with which media, on which schedule, with which evidence captured for future audits and investigations.

Request a Briefing

If you’re planning a WSUS replacement, standing up a new enclave, or trying to keep mission-critical systems patched without trusting the cloud, let’s talk.

  • High-side and air-gapped DoD / IC environments
  • Critical infrastructure with strict connectivity constraints
  • Integrators building secure update & verification workflows
  • Leaders who want facts, not theatre

Adept Resilience Systems LLC

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

UEI: RUXPQAAJ2ZB1

Founder & CEO: Marete Mugambi Kirimi

Email: info@adept-rs.com

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