“Security systems fail. When it fails, what do you do?”
This critical question from Spire Connect’s Pankaj Sharma set the stage at Gitex 2025 for a conversation with Francois Driessen, the “Human Ambassador” of ADAMnetworks. His core message is blunt: in cybersecurity, even real-time is not fast enough. By the time a threat is detected, the damage is already done.
ADAMnetworks is challenging this reactive model with a new philosophy: Zero Trust Connectivity.
Instead of playing a “cat and mouse game” trying to detect threats, their solution goes back to the internet’s foundation. As Driessen explains, they “enforce DNS as a root of trust,” operating on a “default deny all” principle.
Sharma offered a brilliant analogy: ADAMnetworks essentially “presses a button that shuts down the whole internet” and then builds a unique, private version for you, based only on connections it explicitly allows.
This agentless approach works at the network level, allowing it to protect devices that can’t run traditional security, like IoT and industrial technology. The system neutralizes threats before they can execute, offering a truly proactive posture.
As Driessen puts it, this is the solution for “anyone that cannot afford to have a breach.” Instead of just detecting what went wrong, you see what could have gone wrong but was never allowed to connect in the first place.
Watch full interview here:
When Security Isn’t Enough: Francois on Zero Trust Connectivity, AI & Proactive Defense
Spire Connect Interview Transcript
Pankaj Sharma: Security systems fail. When it fails, what do you do? And we say, “Well, just do it right now.” What are the kind of customers who should be interested in evaluating Adam Networks for the next year?
Francois Driessen: Anyone that cannot afford to have a breach.
Pankaj Sharma: Everybody in the world talks about zero trust. You guys came up with a term called zero trust connectivity.
Francois Driessen: We’ve actually went back to the very foundation of how the internet works and found a way to e
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