As we close out 2025, we're reflecting on more than a decade of keeping your digital life secure and your privacy intact. When we introduced our OmniNet Bridge solution in 2014—known to many of you as My Digital Shield—it represented the next generation of network security technology. Purpose-built for the most sensitive, mission-critical environments, it delivered the kind of protection typically reserved for large enterprises. True to our founding mission, we brought that enterprise-grade capability to you, safeguarding your home and office networks with the most effective solution available at the time.
But the world has changed. And so must we.
We are now facing "The New Face of Risk." Cybercriminals are no longer just hackers in hoodies; they are using sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) to launch attacks that are faster and smarter than any human could spot. To fight AI, we need AI.
As readers of this year's CyberAdvisor letters know, we've worked tirelessly throughout 2025 to evolve our solutions and service platform while staying true to our original commitment: Cybersecurity for Life. We branded this initiative TDS Vx to signal our decisive shift into the new world of AI-driven risk—and AI-powered defense.
✓ To fight AI, we need AI.
The Three Primary Attack Surfaces
We've always framed our holistic approach to building a security ecosystem around "The Three Primary Attack Surfaces"
- Privatize Your Email
- Protect Your Devices
- Secure Your Internet Network Connection
We continually evaluate our solutions to confirm we're delivering best-in-class products that address the risks inherent in each attack surface. Our TDS Vx initiative for 2025 represents an exhaustive systems upgrade, ensuring the ecosystem we provide reflects the very best the IT security industry has to offer—and is strongly positioned to manage the evolution of digital threats, including advanced AI-driven exploits.
At this time and in the CyberAdvisor Letter, we will address #3 - Secure Your Internet Connection."
Introducing the Evolution: ControlOne (CBR)
The legacy OBR OmniBridge solution has reached the end of its useful life, and no longer serves the demands of the risk environment today. With this, we are moving from "Static Defense" to "Intelligent Offense." All clients will be encouraged to upgrade to ControlOne, the next generation of network protection.
Why the Change?
The reasons we invested significant resources in upgrading our platform can be summarized in the bullet-points:
- Your Own Private Internet: Imagine driving on a chaotic public highway full of accidents and carjackers. That is the public internet. ControlOne builds a private tunnel—a secure fast lane—exclusively for you. You are invisible to the chaos outside.
- Protection That Travels: You don't just work from a desk anymore. You check bank accounts from hotels and answer emails at airports. ControlOne includes an app (optional upgrade to the home/office system) that ensures your "Private Internet" follows your laptop and phone everywhere.
- AI vs. AI: The new system uses predictive AI to spot odd behavior before it becomes a breach. It doesn't just wait for a break-in; it predicts it and locks the door first.
AI vs.AI
This isn't theory—it's already happening. In November, Anthropic (the maker of Claude AI) disclosed that it had disrupted the first documented large-scale cyberattack executed almost entirely by artificial intelligence. A Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated Anthropic's Claude Code tool to autonomously target approximately thirty organizations—including major technology companies, financial institutions, and government agencies. The AI performed 80 to 90 percent of the attack independently: discovering vulnerabilities, writing exploit code, harvesting credentials, creating backdoors, and exfiltrating sensitive data. Human operators only intervened at a handful of critical decision points. At its peak, the AI made thousands of requests per second—an attack tempo no human team could match. The barriers to sophisticated cyberattacks have dropped dramatically, and they will continue to fall. This is the new reality we're defending against.
https://assets.anthropic.com/m/ec212e6566a0d47/original/Disrupting-the-first-reported-AI-orchestrated-cyber-espionage-campaign.pdf
"The AI made thousands of requests per second, an attack speed that would have been, for human hackers, simply impossible to match." — Anthropic Threat Intelligence Report / The Wall Street Journal
"We have crossed a dangerous new threshold: AI has graduated from being a hacker's assistant to being the hacker itself. In the recent 'Claude-enabled' exploit, the AI autonomously executed 90% of the attack, probing defenses and writing its own code faster than any human ever could." The Wall Street Journal
✓ It is imperative to understand we are witnessing the death of traditional cybercrime economics. As seen in the recent 'Claude-enabled' exploits, a single bad actor can now wield the power of an entire army of expert hackers—simply by asking an AI to do the dirty work.
How to Differentiate the legacy OBR vs. the new CBR Solution
Here is a table that lists the primary differentiators between the OBR (legacy) solution, and our new CBR service.
