OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 26, 2026--
During Exercise HEIMDALL, organized by the Norwegian Joint Headquarters (FOH/NJHQ) this week, Cyviz is presenting its fully integrated, containerized solution for command, control, and collaboration environments.
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The solution is designed for secure, standardized, and agile operations, enabling operators to fight at the edge with assured information and supporting faster decision-making, in line with the company’s strategic focus on the defense and security sector.
The container solution has been developed in collaboration with Nordic Shelter, providing the container platform. The modular platform combines control room technology, visualization, and software into one integrated system. It’s the first live demonstration in a NATO‑secure exercise environment.
Exercise HEIMDALL is conducted within a NATO-relevant framework and focuses on cooperation, technology, and operations in demanding environments.
– This is the first time we are demonstrating our containerized solution in an operational context. It's an important step in the continued development of standardized, secure solutions for defense environments, says Thomas Edberg, VP, Product at Cyviz.
Standardized for mission-critical environments
The container solution is developed as a standardized Commercial off‑the‑Shelf (COTS) platform designed to reduce complexity, risk, and deployment time in mission‑critical environments.
The architecture is secure by design, tailored for multi‑classification use cases, and built to meet strict security and availability requirements, including readiness for TEMPEST B certification and clearance up to NATO TS.
Cyviz delivers the complete technology stack in the container, including solutions for command and control, situational awareness, visualization, and software to manage complex environments.
– Defense and security organizations increasingly require standardized solutions that can be deployed rapidly while meeting high security standards. This solution is designed to address those needs, Edberg adds.
Defense as a strategic priority
Defense and security are strategic growth areas for Cyviz. With a proven track record of delivering mission-critical solutions to government and defense customers across several NATO member countries, the company is seeing growing demand driven by increased European defense investments, geopolitical uncertainty, and ongoing modernization initiatives.
– Our ambition is to be a long‑term technology partner for defense and security organizations with complex operational requirements, says James Munt, Sales Director at Cyviz.
Cyviz’ participation in Exercise HEIMDALL underscores the company’s position as a Norwegian defense supplier delivering secure, mission‑critical solutions and marks an important step in the continued development of containerized command and collaboration environments.
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Containerized command and control in action: Cyviz demonstrating its integrated C2 solution, delivering assured information and real‑time situational awareness in a NATO‑secure exercise environment.
From deployment to operations: Cyviz’ container‑based C2 solution demonstrated during Exercise HEIMDALL. James Munt, Sales Director from Cyviz, took part in the demonstration.
CAIRO (AP) — Iranians began to regain internet access on Wednesday after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown. But users said service was slow and spotty in some areas, with apps like YouTube and Instagram heavily restricted, as they were before the cutoff began during nationwide protests in January.
Authorities justified the outage as a military imperative after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Their decision to lift some restrictions this week came as negotiators appeared to be closing in on a more permanent truce. But many Iranians feared access could be cut off again at a moment's notice.
Internet tracking company Netblocks said Iran’s connectivity, which measures the ability of devices to connect to the internet, is at around 86% of capacity from before the cutoff. Internet analysis firm Kentik said internet traffic, which measures the amount of data transferred and is a good illustration of usage, was at around 40%.
Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity analyst, said there were still widespread disruptions. “It's too early to say the shutdown is over,” he wrote on X.
Iran’s roughly 90 million people have been cut off from the internet for most of 2026, one of the world’s longest and strictest national shutdowns. Young people with online careers saw their incomes evaporate. Job losses and the closure of online businesses added to the war's steep economic costs.
The cutoff made it difficult for Iranian families to communicate through months of unrest and war. At some points, phone lines were also cut off, though they were later restored.
A woman living in Tehran said that for months she was barely able to speak to her sons living abroad. She couldn't believe authorities had restored access, saying she had assumed they would find some justification to prolong the outage.
A taxi driver said service was restored but weak. He expressed hope it would improve so he could use messaging apps with family and friends. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Prices spiked during the shutdown, with residents in Tehran at times paying around $7.50 per gigabyte. Prices are back down to around $2.25 for 30 gigabytes, roughly where they were before the protests.
Even then, Iran tightly controlled access to popular social media sites, leading many to rely on virtual private networks, or VPNs. The cost of those workarounds soared during the shutdown, making them unaffordable for many as the economy was battered.
Businesses have started reappearing online, announcing their return with posts on sites like Instagram and Telegram.
A gamer and tech influencer in the central city of Isfahan said the shutdown had caused him to lose a lot of his audience on YouTube and Instagram, where he had spent years building up a large following.
“All my views and interactions are way down. I’ve been erased from the algorithm,” he said in a voice note sent by WhatsApp, adding that his internet connection was still slower than before the shutdown.
“The situation is such that many content producers have had their income reduced to zero, have moved on to other jobs, or have been forced to sell their equipment to survive,” he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
Iranian authorities first shut down the internet in January during mass anti-government protests that were eventually stamped out in a violent crackdown. Thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands detained.
That cutoff was just starting to ease when the government imposed a complete internet blackout after the start of the war, when U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader and other top officials.
The government faced criticism for the prolonged shutdown, which caused even more harm to an economy devastated by inflation, strikes on key industries and a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.
The internet cutoff cost an estimated $30-40 million daily, with indirect losses likely twice that much, a member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Afshin Kolahi, told a local newspaper last month. About 10 million people have jobs that depend on internet connectivity, according to Communications Minister Sattar Hashemi.
Iranians still had access to a national net, but that has a far narrower reach, and users complained of poor service and heavy censorship. Senior government officials are given SIM cards granting them access to the global internet. Under pressure, the government expanded access to the SIM cards to some professions during the shutdown.
A woman checks her smartphone while sitting on a bench along a sidewalk in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
