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Put policy in front of systems that cannot enforce it themselves.

Data Mediation™ adds an agency-controlled policy enforcement point around heritage, modern and operational systems without requiring the protected application to be rewritten first.

The control gap is often the system itself.

Zero trust architecture assumes a policy enforcement point in front of every resource. Many mission systems predate contemporary identity, cannot be patched on a vulnerability timetable and do not emit the telemetry a modern control stack expects. Replacing them may take years. Accepting the control gap indefinitely is not a strategy.

The gap is widest in state and local government, where unemployment insurance, Medicaid eligibility, tax, court and motor vehicle systems run on platforms that are decades old and carry the most sensitive records the state holds.

Detection is fast. Remediation is slow. Exposure lives in the gap.

When a vulnerability is published or added to a known-exploited list, security teams know what to look for within hours. The system that needs the fix may take months. The question is not how to patch faster. It is how to turn new knowledge into immediate protection while the application team keeps its own change schedule.

A programmable enforcement surface in the data path.

A Programmable Data Agent is deployed at a mediation point in front of the protected system. It interprets the protocol the system already uses, applies the agreed deterministic controls or probabilistic intelligence before the request reaches the system and records the decision. The application continues to perform its primary role. The same control surface works across IT and OT, so both can be governed with one rule set and one audit trail.

Use case
What changes
Typical use
MFA for heritage systems
Introduce a contemporary authentication step around an application that cannot support it internally, connected to the agency's existing identity provider, without modifying the underlying system.
Mission and administrative systems that cannot meet identity mandates without replacement.
Zero-day and Daybreak protection
Translate newly available detection intelligence into inline rules the same day, while the application team retains its remediation schedule.
Systems named in a known-exploited vulnerability entry with no patch window.
Fraud and financial-crime controls
Apply agency logic and intelligence before a transaction reaches the system that will execute it.
Benefits, unemployment insurance, tax refunds, grants and payments.
Multi-protocol observability
Observe journeys across modern, heritage and operational protocols without requiring every system to emit the same telemetry.
Continuous monitoring across IT and OT estates; water, transit and utility control systems.
Controlled data movement
Transform or expose data under explicit policy while retaining control of what leaves the governed environment.
Cross-boundary sharing, cloud adoption, contractor and vendor access.

It complements the security stack.

Data Mediation™ is not a replacement for network security, identity, SIEM or vulnerability management. It provides an enforcement point where an application or protocol does not provide one, at the data layer inside the agency's own environment, and it consumes the policy and intelligence produced by the surrounding stack.

  • Fail-open or fail-closed by configuration, agreed per protected system.
  • Active/active deployment with recovery by DNS switchover.
  • Policy decisions retained as operational evidence for audit and incident response.
  • Delivery is by an authorized partner within the Carahsoft ecosystem, or by one of TomorrowX's global partners authorized to deliver in US public sector with appropriate clearance.

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