Welcoming PureID: How Identity will Change Microsegmentation Forever

At ColorTokens, we’ve always been at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, ensuring our customers are breach ready against today’s threats and prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. Our customers have leveraged our Xshield Microsegmentation platform as the foundation of their breach readiness strategies. The acquisition of PureID marks a watershed moment, strengthening trust and assurance in microsegmentation and enabling it to protect all enterprise assets even more effectively. It also brings us closer to our vision of delivering breach ready solutions for increasingly complex and interconnected enterprise environments.

The Power of Identity-Based Microsegmentation

We envision a future where microsegmentation is no longer constrained by traditional infrastructure-dependent attributes like IP addresses and MAC addresses, which can’t keep pace with today’s dynamic environments. With identity-based microsegmentation, we are building a system that focuses on strong, reliable identities, independent of the underlying infrastructure.

This shift will allow us to deliver microsegmentation that adapts seamlessly to cloud and containerized environments, no matter how rapidly workloads evolve. By anchoring policies to stable identities, we ensure microsegmentation remains effective, enabling businesses to contain breaches even in these dynamic environments.

In IoT and OT environments—often deployed in distributed networks with firewalls and NATs—PureID’s capabilities will allow us to maintain secure, immutable identities across network boundaries. This means comprehensive, end-to-end microsegmentation with no blind spots, a game-changer for industries that rely on complex, distributed infrastructures.

As mobility and remote work continue to reshape user environments, we are paving the way for seamless user policies that follow users wherever they go and across any device. With the integration of PureID into our Xshield platform, we’ll ensure that microsegmentation controls remain consistent across all environments without sacrificing user flexibility.

We will continue to lead in delivering intelligent, adaptive breach ready solutions that empower businesses to stay prepared for the evolving threat landscape. We’re just getting started, and we’ll continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Industry Recognition: A Testament to Our Journey

Our progress hasn’t gone unnoticed. Over the past year, ColorTokens has earned recognition that underscores our commitment to excellence. We’re proud to be named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Q3 2024—an upgrade from our Strong Performer status in 2022. This recognition highlights our relentless focus on innovation and customer-centric design. Forrester noted our ability to make customers breach ready through the most comprehensive zero-trust microsegmentation. The industry recognizes the practical value we provide, from simplifying microsegmentation to delivering visibility across complex infrastructures

In addition to Forrester, Xshield™ was named a Leader in microsegmentation by GigaOm earlier this year, earning the highest overall score as the most comprehensive platform capable of microsegmenting IT, cloud services, microservices, end-user devices, and OT/IoT environments. We’ve also been recognized at RSAC 2024 with awards in critical categories: Best Product in Microsegmentation, Publisher’s Choice for Zero Trust Platform, Best Product in OT Security, and Most Innovative Cyber Defense Readiness Platform.

Further boosting our industry recognition, ColorTokens was featured in Constellation Research’s recent ShortList™ report, which highlighted the top microsegmentation vendors from a pool of 34 solutions. Notably, we were included in their Healthcare Cybersecurity shortlist, emphasizing our role in protecting critical infrastructures.

What This Means for Our Customers

The answer is simple: greater confidence in tackling breaches. It’s about achieving better outcomes with solutions that are both forward-looking and practical. The integration of PureID’s capabilities will ensure our customers can remain confident in their breach readiness, no matter how rapidly workloads’ attributes change.

With Xshield™, businesses can confidently embrace digital transformation—knowing their foundation for breach readiness is adaptable to any digital environment. Whether securing cloud-native applications, legacy systems, or distributed IoT networks, our customers can count on a seamless, unified, and consistent experience.

To see how ColorTokens Xshield^TM can enable scalable microsegmentation, sign up for a personalized demo.