Hardware Trust u0026 Supply Chain Security

Security teams have spent years hardening software. But trust assumptions now extend beyond software into manufacturing, sourcing, and the connected devices already deployed across an environment. The uncomfortable truth is that the hardware already inside your network may be the threat.

Organizations need visibility into the trust relationships underpinning their environments — not only the applications, but the devices and the supply chains behind them. The FCC has determined that foreign-made routers common in homes and businesses pose an unacceptable national-security risk, naming them on its Covered List. National cyber leaders have repeatedly warned that state-sponsored actors have pre-positioned widely inside compromised routers, smart hardware, and infrastructure. A device sourced without assurance is a trust assumption you never consciously made.

Faction Pods and Portals are made and made-safe in the USA. They are forensically inspected at the chip level and cyber-assured by ORION, with a certified supply chain and continuous integrity monitoring after deployment. Built domestically through the OA Technologies partnership, the hardware is one hundred percent USA-made — not foreign-made gear from the FCC Covered List. The assurance is not a label; it follows the device from the chip to the field.

• Forensic inspection at the chip level before deployment
• Cyber-assured by ORION, with a certified supply chain
• Continuous integrity monitoring after the device is in the field
• One hundred percent USA-made through the OA Technologies partnership

Critically, this mitigates the threat from compromised routers and smart hardware already inside your network — without rip-and-replace. By placing assured hardware in the path and bringing untrusted devices inside an owner-controlled network, you re-anchor trust in equipment whose provenance you can actually verify.