Operationalize OT Zero Trust Without Disrupting the Mission
Mission Resilience for Critical Infrastructure and OT
OT resilience cannot depend on perfect prevention or perfect patching. In converged IT/OT environments, a single IT compromise can become an OT disruption if attackers can move laterally into operational systems. ColorTokens helps agencies contain that movement with visibility, simulation, phased enforcement, and agentless micro-perimeters for OT, IoT, legacy, and hard-to-secure assets.
Why OT Zero Trust Requires a Mission-Safe Approach
OT environments prioritize safety, reliability, availability, and long equipment lifecycles. They often include legacy systems, specialized devices, vendor-controlled assets, and operational workflows that cannot tolerate disruptive scanning, broad agent deployment or frequent patching.
ColorTokens gives agencies a practical path to OT zero trust by helping teams discover assets, understand dependencies, simulate policies, and apply micro-perimeters without redesigning the environment.
What ColorTokens Helps Agencies Do
- Discover OT, IoT, SCADA, BMS, facility, clinical, and legacy assets
- Map communication paths and dependencies
- Identify risky east-west movement
- Simulate policies before enforcement
- Create micro-perimeters around critical systems
- Reduce blast radius if breach occurs
- Support agentless protection for hard-to-secure assets
- Preserve operational continuity while improving containment
Priority OT and Cyber-Physical Environments
ColorTokens is especially relevant for public sector environments, where cyber risk can quickly become operational risk.
- Energy, utilities, and water infrastructure
- Facilities and smart buildings
- Healthcare and clinical systems
- Transportation, logistics, and ports
- Installations and facility-related control systems
- Depots, shipyards, and sustainment environments
- Hydropower, dams, and civil works
- Distributed sensors and mission-edge systems
Healthcare and Clinical Systems Are Part of the OT Resilience Conversation
Government healthcare environments include connected medical devices, clinical applications, backup infrastructure, legacy systems, and highly sensitive workflows that must remain available. These systems often carry the same challenge as OT: They are mission-critical, difficult to patch, and difficult to disrupt.
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Find Out How Far a Breach Could Move
The Breach Readiness and Impact Assessment helps agencies understand asset exposure, lateral movement paths, blast radius, and practical steps to improve containment.