Corsha, recognized as an innovator in securing machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, has announced a new collaboration with Dragos, Inc., a noted entity in operational technology (OT) cybersecurity.
The partnership aims to revolutionize security measures for industrial systems by merging machine identity verification and threat detection, providing security teams with full visibility, enhanced control, and a foundation for Zero Trust strategies in OT environments.
Addressing Unverified Machine Traffic
The rising complexity and connectivity of operational networks have elevated the need for secure systems. As new machines, sensors, and autonomous systems are deployed, they increase the attack surface while frequently communicating without proper authentication.
Cyber adversaries leverage these unseen communications, utilizing trusted but unverified traffic to maneuver undetected.
Implementing Zero Trust with Machine Identity
Achieving Zero Trust in OT settings requires ongoing verification beyond network visibility
Achieving Zero Trust in OT settings requires ongoing verification beyond network visibility or perimeter defenses.
By integrating Corsha's automated machine identity and continuous authentication with Dragos's industrial threat intelligence, organizations can confirm each machine's legitimacy in communication, ensuring threats are promptly detected and managed to minimize disruptions.
Enhanced Threat Detection with Dragos
"Machine-to-machine communication forms the core of modern operational frameworks, yet it remains substantially unprotected," stated Anusha Iyer, CEO and Founder of Corsha.
"Integrating our machine identity solutions with Dragos's threat detection tools allows organizations to validate every connection and leverage identity-driven intelligence instantly, enhancing Zero Trust and securing critical industrial links."
Deep Monitoring and Visibility
Dan Dorchinsky, VP Public Sector at Dragos Inc., commented, "Securing OT environments demands profound threat insight and confidence in machine connections. Integrating Corsha's machine identity platform with the Dragos Platform offers customers actionable data swiftly and confidently."
"Combining Corsha's solution with Dragos's comprehensive monitoring, risk management, and threat detection fortifies defenses and resilience."
Unified Defense Layers
The collaboration between Corsha and Dragos combines two critical aspects of OT defense
The collaboration between Corsha and Dragos combines two critical aspects of OT defense: continuous machine identity from Corsha and advanced threat detection from Dragos.
This integrated system enhances visibility, trust, and control across operational environments. It prevents unauthorized and high-risk machine communications by leveraging Dragos's network insights alongside Corsha's identity-driven segmentation.
Strengthening Zero Trust Practices
This joint solution promotes deeper Zero Trust coverage by merging Dragos's asset visibility and threat detection with Corsha's machine identity and policy-based access controls.
This approach enables organizations to enforce trusted communications actively, particularly crucial for non-human connections.
Advancing Incident Response
By integrating machine identity insights with Dragos's high-fidelity detections, Corsha improves intelligence around trusted communications, streamlining incident triage and response.
This setup provides more accurate and actionable information, facilitating quicker response times across OT environments.
Supporting Industry Standards
Corsha's mIDP aids in Defensible Architecture policies within the SANS Five ICS Critical Controls
Through the Dragos integration, Corsha's machine identity provider (mIDP) aids in fulfilling Defensible Architecture guidelines within the SANS Five ICS Critical Controls.
The ongoing authentication of machine-to-machine interactions enforces strict network boundaries and layered defenses aligned with industry best practices.
Zero Trust Implementation for OT
Together, Corsha and Dragos empower organizations to achieve Zero Trust in OT settings by confirming every connection, enriching threat detections with machine-level identities, and controlling access based on risk.
This capability helps swiftly identify and contain malicious activities, ensuring safe, uninterrupted operations in demanding industrial environments.
Corsha, the first and only Machine Identity Provider (mIDP) purpose-built to secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communication across operational systems and critical infrastructure, introduces a partnership and new platform integration with Dragos, Inc., a pioneer in operational technology (OT) cybersecurity.
Together, Corsha and Dragos are transforming how organizations secure industrial systems by combining machine identity and threat detection to give security teams complete visibility, precise control, and a trusted foundation for Zero Trust in OT.
Unverified machine traffic
As operational networks grow more complex and connected, the stakes for securing them have never been higher. Every new machine, sensor, or autonomous system introduced into production environments expands the attack surface, and too often these devices communicate without authentication or accountability.
At the same time, adversaries are leveling up to exploit those unseen connections, using trusted but unverified machine traffic to move laterally and evade detection.
Corsha’s automated machine identity
Achieving Zero Trust for OT requires more than network visibility or perimeter defenses; it demands continuous verification of every machine and every action.
By combining Corsha’s automated machine identity and continuous authentication with Dragos’ deep industrial threat intelligence, organizations can now ensure every machine communication is identity-verified, and that threats are detected, contained, and remediated before they disrupt operations.
Dragos’ threat detection platform
“Machine-to-machine communication has become the backbone of modern operational systems, yet it remains one of the least protected layers of the OT environment,” said Anusha Iyer, CEO and Founder of Corsha.
“By integrating our machine identity platform with Dragos’ threat detection platform, we are giving organizations the ability to continuously verify every connection and act on identity-driven intelligence in real time. This partnership brings Zero Trust for OT to life, strengthening resilience, accelerating response in real time, and securing the core of how critical industrial systems connect.”
Dragos’s deep industrial monitoring and visibility
“Securing OT environments requires both deep visibility into threats and confidence in every machine connection, and integrating Corsha’s machine identity platform with the Dragos Platform gives customers context to act with speed and confidence,” said Dan Dorchinsky, VP Public Sector, Dragos Inc.
“By combining Corsha’s machine identity with Dragos’s deep industrial monitoring and visibility, asset discovery, risk-based vulnerability management, and threat detection, we are helping organizations strengthen their defenses and operational resilience.”
Corsha and advanced threat detection from Dragos
- The Corsha and Dragos integration unite two complementary layers of OT defense: continuous machine identity from Corsha and advanced threat detection from Dragos. Through a direct integration, the two platforms work together to give organizations comprehensive visibility, trust, and control over their operational environments.
- Prevent unauthorized and unusually risky machine communications. Dragos provides deep visibility to detect anomalies and threats across ICS/OT networks, while Corsha enables identity-driven microsegmentation and ensures only verified machines can initiate or maintain connections. Together, they help prevent unauthorized machine activity, reducing the risk of lateral movement, ransomware, and supply chain compromise.
- Strengthen Zero Trust for OT environments. The joint solution delivers deeper Zero Trust coverage by combining Dragos’ real-time asset visibility and threat detection with Corsha’s dynamic machine identity with policy-based microsegmentation and access controls. This helps organizations move beyond detection to active enforcement of trusted communications, especially for non-human connections.
- Improve incident response efficiency with automated enforcement. By adding machine identity context to Dragos high-fidelity detections, Corsha enhances intelligence around trusted communications, further streamlining triage and response. Teams gain clearer, more actionable insights that accelerate investigation and response across OT environments.
- Advance SANS Five ICS Critical Controls with machine identity. Through the Dragos integration, the Corsha mIDP adds machine identity and access control to help meet the Defensible Architecture guidelines within the SANS Five ICS Critical Controls. By continuously verifying and authenticating machine-to-machine communications, the joint solution enforces strict boundaries across industrial networks and builds layered defenses that are resilient, auditable, and aligned with industry best practices.
Zero Trust for OT by validating every connection
Together Corsha and Dragos enable organizations to achieve Zero Trust for OT by validating every connection, enriching detections with machine-level identity, and dynamically controlling access based on risk.
This combined capability helps organizations more quickly identify malicious activity, contain incidents, and maintain safe, continuous operations in the most demanding industrial environments.
