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# Hardpoint Connect

Hardpoint Connect is a secure overlay network. It lets you safely and easily connect private stateful infrastructure and compute resources, without exposing them to the internet. It also acts as a layer for governing & auditing these interactions.

Hardpoint Connect consists of 3 components:

* [**SDK**](https://github.com/hardpointlabs/sdk), a lightweight TypeScript library which drops into your application code
* **Routing Mesh**, the central coordination point which authenticates incoming requests, evaluates traffic rules and collects audit data. It cannot see the traffic moving through it
* **Agent**: an *optional*, standalone daemon running inside your network perimeter, which establishes a secure outbound connection

If you're using Hardpoint Lattice, agents are auto-provisioned and managed. Most of the time you will just interact with the SDK.