Built on years of research and engineering expertise
Our team brings together researchers and engineers with extensive academic and practical experience in privacy, IT security, distributed systems, and overlay networking. Team members have conducted years of research at the University of Hamburg on secure peer-to-peer communication, programmable overlay networks, edge computing, and the deployment of distributed applications across heterogeneous environments.
This work spans computation offloading, resilient cross-organization communication in crisis situations, secure smart home networking, and communication infrastructures for energy systems. It is documented in peer-reviewed publications and research projects and reflects a long-standing commitment to secure and privacy-preserving networking technologies.
Turning expertise into a practical platform
Building on this expertise, we develop Netsody as a practical network access platform for organizations that need secure, manageable remote access and private networking. The platform brings together advanced networking technologies, software components, and ongoing engineering work to make reachability, identity, authorization, and access control explicit instead of hard-wiring them into the underlying physical network.
Netsody addresses communication barriers such as NAT, firewalls, changing network paths, and restrictive environments while providing encrypted, policy-driven connectivity. This lets application and infrastructure teams focus on their domain-specific challenges instead of assembling access logic from gateways, firewall rules, and one-off tunnels.
Research findings and experience with project-specific software artifacts inform our engineering approach. The current Netsody platform is shaped by that expertise as well as continued product development for real-world connectivity and security requirements. Organizations have approached us with use cases in civil protection, critical infrastructure, drone systems, aviation, and edge device operations.
To support such deployments over the long term, we are exploring an independent organizational setup for Netsody. The aim is to provide dedicated services, clear responsibilities, and a long-term roadmap for customers and partners.
Research and applied project contexts
The team’s scientific work, project-specific software artifacts, and applied engineering experience span several academic and practical contexts. Their respective roles differ by project:
- RESCUE-MATE, where Netsody has supported resilient cross-organization connectivity in emergency and crisis-response scenarios.
- RESISTANT, where resilient zero-trust approaches are studied for mission-critical avionics environments.
- SANE, where decentralized, secure, and privacy-preserving data sharing between citizens and institutions was explored and early networking software artifacts were developed and evaluated.
- CoupleIT!, where research addresses reliable communication for digitally coupled energy systems.
Reach us
If you want to use Netsody in your organization, in a research project, or if you are interested in a collaboration, contact us at oi.ydosten@olleh.