As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates the speed and complexity of cyberattacks, operational technology (OT) environments can no longer rely on perimeter-based security to protect critical operations. Working together, Booz Allen and Corsha accelerates clients’ adoption of zero trust architectures that continuously verify machines, devices, workloads, services, and users before access is granted. Through Corsha’s Machine Identity Provider (mIDP), and Booz Allen’s cyber expertise and tradecraft, the team provides real-time visibility, dynamic authentication, and identity-based policy enforcement to machine-to-machine communications in OT environments, helping operators reduce lateral movement, stop unauthorized access, and improve cyber resilience without compromising operational continuity.
As an investor and partner, Booz Allen supports Corsha’s automated machine technical solution that protects OT with an identity-first approach, ensuring only trusted machines can access these critical systems. Corsha’s mIDP gives OT teams identity-based control over machine-to-machine communication. It discovers machine connections across operational environments, verifies each machine using dynamic identity, and enforces policies so only trusted systems (e.g. vendor laptops, cloud workloads, digital twins, and data historians) can communicate with critical OT assets.
In partnering with Booz Allen, Corsha can conduct mutual authentication between devices and services to enable least-privileged access and sharply limit unnecessary lateral movement. Further, Booz Allen and Corsha’s mIDP capability provides real-time visibility and identity-based control over machine-to-machine communications in OT environments, helping operators discover connections, verify authorized activity, and stop unauthorized or anomalous machine access before it disrupts operations.
Our integrated architecture provides a blueprint for secure OT modernization. While every OT environment is unique, the following core principles hold constant:
- Establish OT Visibility Before Enforcing Connectivity Controls
- Limit OT Device Exposure Through Controlled, Authenticated Connectivity
- Enforce Operational Boundaries Through Segmentation and Micro Segmentation
- Continuously Log, Monitor, and Detect Threats Across OT
With protocol visibility and zero trust enforced at the identity and network layers, organizations can detect deviations and anomalous behaviors earlier. This fusion of detection and enforced traffic controls is what materially reduces risk.
This collaboration aligns with Booz Allen’s long-standing investment in developing secure, scalable zero trust solutions, and efforts to partner with emerging technology companies. Corsha brings an essential capability to the mission: automated machine identity that is resilient, lightweight, and designed for the often-overlooked constraints of OT networks. These improvements are possible because the zero trust architecture ensures that each device and session are authenticated, authorized, and continuously verified, demonstrating how zero trust, when engineered for OT realities, directly improves both mission outcomes and overall cyber posture.
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