The Shatter Protocol in Action

For field operations in high-stakes industries—logistics, field engineering, and remote manufacturing—the loss of hardware is not a property loss; it is a data liability. Traditional “remote wipe” commands often target the filesystem, which can be interrupted, bypassed, or partially recovered.

At Infinary, we implement the Shatter Protocol. Instead of deleting individual files, we target the cryptographic keys holding the volume together.

Zero-Touch Enforcement (ZTE)

The protocol relies on hardware-level enforcement. All field devices (iOS via Apple Business Manager or Android via Zero-Touch Enrollment) are supervised at the factory level. This forces the device to download our MDM profile before the initial setup screen is ever bypassed.

This “Zero-Touch” approach ensures that no field device ever exists in an unmanaged state.

Targeted Cryptographic Destruction

When a device is reported lost or a credential breach is detected, the Shatter Protocol is triggered via a webhook from our monitoring core. While traditional MDMs send a “Wipe” command, we focus on destroying the FileVault (macOS) or BitLocker (Windows) recovery keys and immediately rotating the hardware-bound encryption keys.

By destroying the keys, the data on the drive becomes computationally impossible to recover—even if the physical NAND chips are desoldered and read directly.

The 0-Second Exposure Window

Our goal is to reach a “0-second exposure window.” By utilizing Cloud Pub/Sub to bridge the ERPNext security modules with the MDM API, the latency between a detected intrusion and the execution of the Shatter Protocol is minimized to sub-second levels.

The trigger payload for the MDM API looks like this:

{
  "command": "EraseDevice",
  "uuid": "device_7782_ops_west",
  "options": {
    "obliterate_keys": true,
    "force_reboot": true,
    "lock_window": 0
  },
  "metadata": {
    "reason": "Cryptographic Wipe / Shatter Protocol Active",
    "authorized_by": "System_Automatic_Trigger",
    "security_level": "CRITICAL"
  }
}

Digital Autonomy Requires Security

Sovereignty is meaningless if your data can be exfiltrated through a lost tablet. The Shatter Protocol ensures that your industrial intelligence remains internal, regardless of where the physical hardware ends up.

Sovereign companies don’t just own their software; they own the security of their perimeter.

Principal Architect
Infinary Engineering Group