Guacamole™ by Hummingbirds AI provides continuous human verification during the active session

Organizations have spent years improving authentication. MFA, conditional access, device posture checks, and Zero Trust aligned policies all help determine who should get in.

But a quieter problem remains after login.

Once a session is active, sensitive applications often stay available even when the authorized user steps away. A clinician may leave an EHR session open at a shared workstation. A financial services employee may keep privileged tools active during a busy trading day. An AI assistant may be ready to execute workflow actions long after the original human intent was verified.

That is the gap IGEL and Hummingbirds AI are addressing together.

Guacamole™ by Hummingbirds AI provides continuous human verification during the active session. Instead of treating identity as a one-time login event, Guacamole creates an ongoing trust signal that helps determine whether the authorized human is still present. It uses standard RGB cameras already available on many enterprise devices and runs inference locally on the endpoint, without requiring specialized hardware.

The verification model is simple to understand:

That signal becomes especially powerful when paired with the IGEL Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform™. IGEL provides an immutable, trusted, and governed endpoint layer for modern secure access architectures. Through IGEL OS, IGEL Universal Management Suite™ (UMS), and IGEL App Portal, organizations can strengthen endpoint control while supporting cloud workspaces, virtual desktops, SaaS, DaaS, VDI, and enterprise applications.

Together, IGEL and Guacamole extend trust from the endpoint into the live session itself.

For security teams, this can help reduce the risk of unattended sessions, shoulder surfing, session misuse, and unauthorized access. For compliance teams, it can provide a stronger audit trail of human presence during sensitive actions. For organizations adopting AI copilots and agents, it adds a practical layer of human accountability before AI-assisted workflows take action.  “Human in the Loop” so to speak.

The privacy model matters too. Guacamole performs inference locally on the endpoint. No biometric data leaves the device, no facial images are transmitted, and no cloud processing is required. That makes the approach useful for regulated environments where security, privacy, and accountability must work together.

Performance is also part of the story. Hummingbirds AI, an Intel Gold Partner, has optimized Guacamole for modern Intel® AI PCs using Intel OpenVINO™ and NPU acceleration. Internal testing showed approximately 1.5W power consumption and up to 1.45 additional hours of battery life compared with GPU execution.

The endpoint has become more than a place where work starts. It is where trust must continue.

IGEL secures the endpoint. Guacamole helps secure the human behind the session. Together, they create a stronger model for secure digital workspaces, responsible AI, and continuous identity assurance.

Schedule a strategy session to explore how IGEL and Hummingbirds AI can help your organization reduce security risk, improve compliance, enhance user experience, accelerate Zero Trust-aligned initiatives, and enable responsible AI.