I'm excited and proud to share that Corsha has been named as a Cool Vendor™ in the Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations in Cyber-Physical Systems Security, 2026 report.
The Corsha team has had an interesting journey that brought us to help solve OT problems for customers into the space. To many of us OGs on the Corsha team, machines were largely Docker containers, kubernetes pods, and virtual machines. As we started talking with folks in OT, we quickly realized that the imminent machine identity problem to solve is with industrial systems -
- Robots automating manufacturing,
- HVAC systems allowing for remote management across a campus,
- Physical AI and predictive analytics optimizing operations.
Industrial systems need to be more connected every day. Defense, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure have no option. Industrial enterprises must rapidly connect operational systems to the AI and data revolution to remain competitive.
Every new connection in an industrial network introduces both opportunity and risk. OT systems support the physical processes that manufacture, control, and transport the basic infrastructure that our world depends on. Yet they were never designed for modern connectivity or the barrage of attacks they face today.
This is exactly where identity and trusted access comes in, and it’s a pivotal time for Cyber-Physical Systems Security.
It’s time to move past detection to stopping attacks in real-time.
It’s time to continuously assess and validate industrial networks against as-running knowledge not stale and difficult-to-maintain diagrams and documentation.
It’s time to build the confidence to connect PLCs and other OT systems to anything, including cloud and physical AI.
Changing how we securely connect OT
Corsha solves these challenges using the power of machine identity. Our Industrial Identity Security Platform helps organizations:
• Apply identity-based microsegmentation across OT environments
• Use adaptive and behavioral identity to protect machine communications
• Stop unauthorized connections and attacks in real-time
• Modernize without compromising operational safety and availability
• Continuously assess as-running versus intended operations
Building the Future of Industrial Identity Security
From the day that I jumped into cyber decades ago now, my mission and my passion has been to make cybersecurity accessible. Not a blocker or a gate but usable and useful.
Our vision at Corsha is a future where every machine in every factory, military base, energy grid, and logistics warehouse can plug into the AI and data era confidently and safely, and where that secure connectivity makes the world more productive, more resilient, and more secure.
We’re proud of what the Corsha team has built and grateful to the customers and partners who are helping us rethink what identity and access means across operational environments. There is a lot more work ahead as industrial systems become more connected, automated, and intelligent.
We’re excited to keep building.
Read the Gartner research: www.gartner.com/document-reader/document/8379381 (Gartner subscription required)
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Gartner, Coolest Vendor Innovations in Cyber-Physical Systems Security, 2026, By Wam Voster, Katell Thielemann, Ruggero Contu, Sumit Rajput, Avinash Dev Nagumanthri, September 2026
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