Draft thinking, engineering decisions, research briefs, release models, and selected work from Indian Hill Labs.
The first version of the IHL Secure Systems Standard is being organized around evidence, explicit ownership, minimal inherited risk, repeatable builds, maintainability, and honest status language. Requirements that are not yet implemented will remain labeled as targets rather than presented as guarantees.
Discuss this workMinimalism is not simply about image size. It is about reducing unknown ownership, unnecessary runtime tooling, unused dependencies, ambient permissions, and maintenance obligations. Smaller can be safer only when the resulting system remains supportable and observable.
Discuss this workA release should be more than a tag in a registry. The long-term model includes repeatable build inputs, traceable source, documented dependencies, software bills of materials, signing, controlled promotion, and evidence that an artifact can be rebuilt when the environment changes.
Discuss this workTelemetry is valuable only when collection does not create a larger attack surface than the signal is worth. Watchtower research focuses on useful event capture, sensor health, evidence integrity, safe transport, and clear boundaries between deception components and operational systems.
Discuss this workIndian Hill Labs exists to move ideas out of diagrams and into controlled, supportable systems. Research becomes useful when it changes a build standard, informs a product capability, improves an operational decision, or gives FoxTech a stronger foundation for customer delivery.
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