Zero Trust Network Access Without the Vendor Cloud

Bowtie is a sovereign SASE and Zero Trust Network Access platform that runs entirely inside the customer's own infrastructure. Traffic, telemetry, and control-plane data stay within environments the customer already owns and operates.

This approach fits organizations where data residency, regulatory boundaries, and operational independence are first-order requirements rather than optional features. Public sector agencies, defense contractors, and regulated commercial customers increasingly need secure access and egress capabilities that do not depend on external cloud infrastructure. Bowtie was built to meet that need.

The platform delivers the capabilities customers expect from a modern secure access stack: user-to-application Zero Trust access, secure internet egress, DNS filtering, device posture enforcement, east-west segmentation, and site-to-site connectivity. What makes Bowtie different is where it runs. Enforcement nodes, called Controllers, deploy as software inside the customer's data center, cloud environment, edge site, or classified enclave. A next-generation distributed architecture synchronizes policy across the fleet and allows the fabric to keep operating even when individual sites lose connectivity to one another. There is no central dependency, no shared multi-tenant cloud, no external control plane.

For federal, state, and local customers, this design maps onto requirements that cloud-delivered platforms are not architected to meet: data residency inside a defined boundary, operation in disconnected or intermittently connected environments, integration with existing identity and routing infrastructure, and deployment into air-gapped or classified networks. Commercial customers in finance, insurance, aerospace, and critical infrastructure adopt Bowtie for the same reasons — sensitive traffic stays in environments they already control and audit.

Bowtie is deployed today across civil space, defense-adjacent manufacturing, commercial real estate, insurance, and logistics. Customers include operators of orbital infrastructure, national retail portfolios, and Fortune 500 enterprises. The company is registered in SAM.gov with an active CAGE code and supports procurement through Carahsoft's federal, state, local, and education contract vehicles.