IGEL has appointed Randy Resnick, a senior U.S. defense Zero Trust official, to tailor its endpoint platform for government and critical-industry markets as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) pursues a fiscal 2027 security goal.
IGEL said Oct. 15 that Resnick had joined as Field CTO, Government and Critical Industries. He will coordinate with customers and teams across product, engineering, partnerships and go-to-market as the company adapts platform features to public-sector and industry needs.
IGEL lists financial services, healthcare, transportation, energy and utilities as target sectors. The company says Resnick’s international remit will include NATO and Five Eyes countries, as well as Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the Middle East.
IGEL says Resnick’s technical and cybersecurity work for the DoD and NSA spans nearly four decades; more than 34 of those years were at the NSA. A March 31, 2026, biography from the DoD chief information officer lists him as Senior Advisor and Director of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office. It credits him with authoring the department’s original Zero Trust Strategy and records more than 38 years of experience.
The DoD’s 2022 strategy set fiscal 2027 as the target for adopting a Zero Trust architecture. The department described the approach as using recurring identity and access checks to limit adversaries’ movement through a network, moving beyond reliance on perimeter defenses.
IGEL describes its Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform (IASEP) as combining policy enforcement, trusted execution and governance evidence across control, data and execution planes. The company says the platform is designed for an enterprise edge that includes information technology, operational technology, cloud services, applications, containers, open-source technologies, artificial intelligence and users. IGEL’s stated rationale is to extend national-security Zero Trust approaches into government and commercial critical-infrastructure markets.
Nextgov/FCW reported Oct. 14 that Resnick had told colleagues by email he planned to retire from government service Friday, Oct. 16.
