Unlike traditional IT security, OT environments require real-time protection without disrupting operations. Opscura’s technology enables:

• Granular access controls based on identity and role-based permissions.
• Micro-segmentation to isolate critical assets and prevent lateral movement.
• Traffic obfuscation to protect sensitive operational data from adversarial threats.

With Zero Trust principles, every device and connection is continuously verified, significantly reducing the attack surface for adversarial threats targeting the DoD’s supply chain and logistics systems.

The DoD is shifting from network perimeter defense to data-centric security, ensuring that security measures travel with the data itself. Opscura achieves this by:

• Enforcing encryption in transit to prevent unauthorized access.
• Implementing dynamic access policies that adapt based on threat intelligence.
• Preventing adversaries from extracting or tampering with sensitive operational data.

This approach is critical for military logistics and operational networks, where data integrity is essential for mission success.

To accelerate Zero Trust adoption, the DoD is focusing on automation and AI-driven security. Opscura supports this vision through:

• Data acquisition for IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), ensuring that threat detection platforms receive the necessary network insights.
• Efficient data handling, aggregating, compressing, and encrypting network data before passing it to IDS platforms for analysis.
• Virtual SPAN port capabilities, enabling seamless integration with visibility tools without adding unnecessary network overhead.
• Automated response integration, allowing Opscura to trigger security policies based on threat detections from IDS solutions, mitigating risks in real-time.

This approach ensures that security monitoring tools receive high-fidelity data while minimizing infrastructure complexity and resource consumption.

A major challenge in Zero Trust for OT is ensuring seamless integration with existing tools across different DoD branches. Opscura is designed to:

• Work across heterogeneous OT and IT environments, ensuring operational continuity.
• Support virtual SPAN port functionality, allowing seamless integration with leading OT visibility tools like Claroty, Nozomi, Armis, and Forescout.
• Integrate with SIEM platforms, forwarding logs from Opscura devices, monitored networks, and detected threats such as port scans or unauthorized login attempts.
• Prevent vendor lock-in, ensuring our security solution enhances existing investments without creating interoperability bottlenecks.

Unlike solutions that focus exclusively on secure connectivity, Opscura extends Zero Trust protections without acting as a standalone visibility tool. Instead, Opscura complements best-in-class monitoring platforms with secure data access controls and micro-segmentation.

Opscura actively prevents the spread of ransomware and other cyber threats in OT environments by:

• Enforcing dynamic access control, ensuring only verified entities communicate within the network.
• Providing OT-specific firewall capabilities, implementing security policies that do not disrupt operations.
• Containing lateral ransomware movement, preventing threats from spreading to additional assets.
• Automating endpoint isolation, limiting exposure and ensuring rapid response to infections.
• Maintaining a streamlined security framework, allowing security teams to deploy and manage defenses efficiently.

Zero Trust is not just a technology shift—it’s a cultural transformation. Opscura simplifies adoption by:

• Providing an intuitive platform with a low learning curve.
• Automating security policy creation, reducing the need for extensive manual configurations.
• Ensuring OT operators and cybersecurity teams can collaborate seamlessly in securing critical infrastructure.
• Enabling proactive threat response, ensuring that IDS-detected threats can trigger automated mitigation actions, reducing manual intervention and improving response times.

Opscura’s innovative approach to OT security is built for the evolving threat landscape of modern defense and industrial environments. By aligning with the DoD’s key Zero Trust pillars—OT security, data-centric protection, automation, interoperability, and cultural adaptation—we empower organizations to:

• Strengthen cyber resilience in mission-critical operations.
• Secure logistics and supply chains from adversarial threats.
• Achieve compliance with upcoming DoD Zero Trust frameworks.

As the DoD continues to expand its Zero Trust roadmap, the time to act is now. Opscura is ready to help defense agencies and industrial organizations navigate the shift toward a more secure and resilient OT future.

Want to learn more? Contact us to explore how Opscura can support your Zero Trust journey.