Secure your connected factory — and address CMMC Compliance
Faction delivers enterprise-grade Zero Trust at a fraction of the cost of Enterprise SDN or ZTNA — protecting your vulnerable OT & IoT, data, and communications without rip-and-replace
You run a complex mix of legacy and modern equipment — most of it now connected — usually without a large security team. Smart manufacturing and IIoT brought real productivity, and a wider attack surface, to an operation that can't afford downtime or a stolen design.
It isn't only data at risk — it's your critical OT & IoT that, whether you like it or not, are connected and vulnerable to cloud attackers. Manufacturing is now the most-attacked industry, and Defense Industrial Base suppliers sit squarely in the sights of state-sponsored actors. At the same time, the FCC has determined that the foreign-made routers common on plant floors pose an unacceptable national-security risk. The gear you already run may be part of the problem.
Line downtime
A stopped line is lost output and missed delivery dates you can't easily recover.
Stolen IP
Drawings, recipes, and process know-how walking out the door to a competitor or adversary.
Recovery costs
Incident response, replacement, and ransom a lean shop can't absorb.
Lost contracts
Failing CMMC or suffering a breach can cost you defense and OEM business.
- Smart devices — printers, NAS drives, robotics, drones.
- Dumb devices — sensors, cameras, controllers.
- Legacy systems — PCs, servers, and computers embedded in machines too costly or critical to replace, and that can't be patched.
Virtual Private Circuit (VPC)
Take the production line, the offices, and the remote people and devices that run them off the public internet into a circuit only you can see and reach — then segment and micro-segment it with Groups, so the floor, the office, and partners stay separated.
- Production, office, and remote sites on one circuit
- No public exposure to scan or reach
- Identity-based access between cells and systems
- No thousands of firewall rules to manage
Owner-Held Keys & Zero Knowledge
Encryption keys are created and held by you and never leave your devices. Faction routes traffic but has no access to the designs, data, or IP you protect.
- Protect drawings, recipes, and process IP
- Keys stay with the manufacturer
- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- No vendor in your trust path
Zero Trust, Identity-Based Access
Every user and device is authenticated and authorized; nothing anonymous can reach the circuit. Scope and revoke access for integrators and suppliers.
- Out-of-band Zero Trust authentication
- Time-limited, scoped vendor and integrator access
- Step-up to verified human identity (iValt, roadmap)
- Full access logs for audit
Cyber-Assured Hardware — Pods & Portals
Faction's own purpose-built, Cyber-Assured networking hardware brings smart, dumb, and legacy machines into the circuit with no agent — and is trusted hardware by design, a direct answer to the foreign hardware now flagged by the FCC.
- Move machinery and sensors off the internet
- No agent, no patching of the machine
- US-made, independently source-inspected
- Reaches equipment that can't protect itself
Encrypted Data & Ransomware-Proof Backup
The Faction Data Security Suite keeps files, email, and media encrypted under your keys — and backs them up where only you can decrypt them.
- Keep the email and cloud apps staff already use
- Every file encrypted under your own keys
- Owner-keyed backup that can't be ransomed
- Share with vendors without exposing the floor
Factionize your infrastructure — don't rip and replace it
What about the foreign-made routers on the FCC's Covered List, or the legacy gear on the floor that can't be patched? Ripping out and replacing equipment that's running production is slow, costly, and disruptive.
Factionizing is the faster, lower-cost path. Faction services and software secure the hardware you already run — and replace only what genuinely can't be secured — bringing the plant to a Zero Trust, Cyber-Assured state without stopping the line.
- Secure existing networking hardware in place rather than replacing it.
- Replace only what can't be brought up to standard — with Cyber-Assured Pods & Portals.
- No rip-and-replace project and no line stoppage.
- Reach Zero Trust on your timeline and budget.
Supports your CMMC program
Owner-held keys, cryptographic isolation, and identity-based access map to the controls the Defense Industrial Base has to meet — applied to the OT, IoT, and legacy systems traditional tools can't reach.
Access Control — identity-based, least-privilege access to systems; nothing anonymous on the network.
System & Communications Protection — cryptographic isolation and owner-held encryption in transit and at rest.
Configuration Management — bring legacy and OT systems under control without modifying them.
Audit & Accountability — full, scoped logs of who and what reached each system.
Supply-Chain Risk — scope and time-limit access for integrators and suppliers.
Foreign-made routers pose clear risks and must be phased out. Factionize or drop in Pods & Portals to mitigate — without rip & replace.
Take action
With manufacturing the most-attacked industry and CMMC requirements firming up, Faction lets you adopt Zero Trust rapidly and affordably — protecting production, IP, and your place in the supply chain. Contact us for a consultation tailored to your floor and your compliance needs.