With our Decentralized Cyber-Reconnaissance System, we are setting a new benchmark for sovereign cyber situational awareness from an attacker’s perspective.
Alpha Strike Labs has been honored with the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2026. For us, this recognition is especially meaningful: the award honors our Decentralized Cyber-Reconnaissance System (DCS), a technology developed through German research that can be operated with complete sovereignty and helps government agencies, national CERTs, and KRITIS organizations to continuously understand and reduce their digital attack surface.
From left to right: Karsten U. Bartels, Kim Nguyen, Dr. Holger Mühlbauer, Vivien Oesten, Norbert Pohlmann, Daniel Marzin, and Andre Kudra.
Cyber Defense Starts with Visibility
Many organizations face a key challenge: their external attack surface is constantly changing. New systems go online, cloud services are integrated, certificates change, third parties host critical applications, credentials appear in leaks and misconfigurations often go unnoticed. At the same time, attackers can see exactly this exposed information – often sooner and more systematically than the organizations themselves.
This is exactly where DCS comes in. The system generates continuously updated cyber situational awareness reports. This enables government agencies, national CERTs, and KRITIS organizations to monitor not only their own organizations but also all companies, sectors, and critical infrastructures within their jurisdiction – all the way up to the national situational awareness picture.
”You can only protect what you know. With DCS, government agencies and national CERTs can see the exposure of all organizations they are responsible for before attackers can exploit it – from individual critical infrastructure operators to a national cyber situational picture.
Daniel MarzinCo-Founder of Alpha Strike Labs
DCS: Sovereign Cyber Intelligence for Government Agencies, CERTs, and Critical Infrastructure
DCS is an independent on-premises solution from Alpha Strike Labs that enables comprehensive analysis within the customer’s infrastructure. This means that data, search queries, analyses, and visualizations remain entirely within the customer’s own infrastructure and jurisdiction. This data sovereignty is a crucial factor, particularly for government agencies, national CERTs, and operators of critical infrastructure.
The solution is based on Alpha Strike Labs’ global Internet scans across the entire IPv4 address space, supplemented by specialized methods for detecting active IPv6 systems as well as open-source intelligence from publicly available technical sources.
Data collection is non-intrusive, requiring no agents and causing no disruption to target systems. DCS provides insights into exposed assets, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compromised credentials. This enables security managers to more quickly assess which risks are actually relevant and which measures need to be prioritized.
From Individual Assets to a National Cyber Situational Picture
The unique value of DCS lies in the scalability of the situation picture. While traditional security tools typically focus only on individual systems, networks, or organizations, DCS can map entire areas of responsibility. For a government agency or a national CERT, this creates a consolidated view across industries, regions, sectors or critical infrastructure. This transforms scattered technical data into a usable cyber situational awareness picture for strategic and operational decisions.
