Your Cybersecurity Solution for OT Environments
Today’s critical infrastructure — from substations and water systems to power, medical, finance, and transportation — faces constant cyber threats. Much of this equipment was never designed to be secure, and traditional network defenses are brittle. No matter how much is spent on firewalls, monitoring, or detection, attackers still find ways in — and they will again.
TrustedCI is different. It watches the network — it directly protects the critical devices themselves. As the first Digital Air Gap™, TrustedCI physically isolates your most vital systems so only trusted, authorized commands ever get through. Your critical devices and equipment are protected even if the network is compromised.
PROBLEM
Most critical infrastructure is connected — but not protected.
Modern infrastructure depends on digital systems for control, monitoring, and automation. But many of these systems were never designed with cybersecurity in mind.
From substations to water treatment plants, legacy OT devices are increasingly exposed to networks — and with them, to threat actors. Publicly-accessible devices, misconfigured or obsolete network defenses, compromised firmware, and insider threats create systemic risk across sectors that can’t afford to fail.
SOLUTION
Trusted CI: Protect critical devices on any network
While traditional network- and software-based defenses attempt to detect attackers, TrustedCI denies them targets by physically isolating critical devices from the rest of the network.
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TrustedCI is a hardware-based Digital Air Gap — an isolation barrier that makes critical devices unrouteable. TrustedCI passes digitally-signed, encrypted command-and-control messages from cryptographically-trusted origins across the isolation barrier — and nothing else. The content of responses is configurable-controlled to match the risk profile of each protected system.
The Digital Air Gap
Physical network segmentation.
Make capabilities available via your network without putting them on your network.
Physically separates trusted and untrusted networks
Tamper-resistant, hardened hardware appliance
Only allows approved, authenticated commands and data
No dependencies — works with your existing network and team
Hardware-enforced micro-segmentation
Prevents lateral movement between critical systems ​
Enables secure, one-way data flows (e.g., data collection)
Deployed in production in the DOD since 2024 to protect critical manufacturing infrastructure
How TrustedCI Works
TrustedCI provides the strongest level of protection, physical micro-segmentation — just like an air gap — while allowing real-time, networked command and control of your critical systems. Your critical systems cannot be targeted by attacks, independent of origin — whether from the internet, an insider, a compromised internal system, or otherwise. TrustedCI also physically prevents lateral movement, containing compromised systems so that they can't be used to attack other systems.
This level of protection is critical, particularly for legacy systems and protocols that lack modern authentication, authorization, and encryption. This protection applies to all communications with the critical systems, including command and control and data collection. ​ TrustedCI also enables cryptographically verifiable, attributable, transactional updates to the firmware, software, or configurations of critical systems.
Why TrustedCI is Different
"Network security and monitoring are insufficient to secure critical infrastructure. TrustedCI brings physical trust back into digital systems -- because control over what connects is control over what's protected. We built TrustedCI to give operators real-world enforcement at the hardware level. It's not another network security device -- it's a new approach and a new standard for securing the systems that keep the world running."
— Anna Bennett, CEO, AURA Technologies
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