ColorTokens’ Gold Rush at Globee Awards
Call it unstoppable momentum or call it yet another powerful validation of our breach-readiness approach. We’re riding high into RSA 2025 with triple Gold medals, and one Silver medal from the Globee Cybersecurity Awards. Claiming top honors for Microsegmentation, Healthcare Cybersecurity Solutions, and Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Cybersecurity Solutions, plus a Silver for Operational Technologies (OT) Security, shows that our solutions enable businesses to maintain operations even when breaches attempt to shut everything down. So, let’s understand why these recognitions are being heaped upon us.
The Key to Our Success
Our success is rooted in a deep understanding that, despite technological advancements, no organization can prevent every breach. No matter how secure you believe your environment is, someone, somewhere, is devising a way in. Furthermore, cyber breaches now extend beyond IT, infiltrating operational technology (OT) and disrupting core business functions. Businesses can experience downtime averaging 24 days following a ransomware attack, with the average cost of recovery averaging $5 million. Clearly, the traditional prevention-detection-remediation approach is insufficient.
We understand how cyberattacks evolve. Threat actors methodically advance through stages, from victim selection and initial access to lateral movement, culminating in data theft or full control of systems. Here, the ever-decreasing breakout time—the time it takes for an initial compromise to spread beyond the “patient zero” asset—makes it critical to have measures in place in advance to contain these threats before they spread.
Without proactive breach-readiness measures in place, attacks can progress from minor events like failed logins to incidents such as malware infections, culminating in widespread breaches and full-scale crises. These crises disrupt operations, harm reputations, and have severe regulatory and financial impacts. Recognizing this, prudent organizations are now adopting the fundamental Zero Trust posture of always assume a breach.
Yet, traditional segmentation methods still focus on network or logical boundaries and offer limited visibility in lateral movement. This creates an environment where persistent threats can still move quietly, advancing toward critical assets. Without a platform that continuously maps, visualizes, and refines your environment, you’re left with complexity and guesswork instead of informed action.
To address this challenge, ColorTokens’ Xshield Enterprise Microsegmentation PlatformTM provides “breach-ready” preparation to minimize the damage of potential cyberattacks. It goes beyond simply segmenting the network; it provides visibility into how different attacks exploit open networks for lateral movement and enforces micro-perimeters to control it. This stops illicit traffic before it spreads, permits legitimate business processes to proceed, and aligns perfectly with a zero-trust posture. By leveraging automated asset tagging, dynamic policy templates, and centralized policy management, Xshield sculpts a flexible security framework around every type of resource—from datacenter servers, user endpoints and cloud workloads to Kubernetes containers, OT devices, and even legacy systems. Instead of guessing how to microsegment, organizations can rely on breach-impact dashboards and visibility tools that map out applications, dependencies, and vulnerabilities, guiding them toward continuous improvement before, during, and after breaches.
Taking Our Approach to Securing OT, Hospitals, Pharma, and Beyond
With Xshield, customers that previously faced multi-week shutdowns now contain breaches within hours or days. They protect intellectual property, maintain critical operations, and recover revenue streams. A biotech client blocked five million unauthorized connections, cut the attack surface by 90%, and reduced its blast radius by 80%. Another energy leader secured over 70 sites in under 90 days, elevated compliance, and improved uptime. For healthcare institutions, this means continuing patient care even if faced with an attack. For Operational Technology, it ensures continuity of vital industrial systems. For pharmaceuticals and biotech, it protects data integrity and accelerates regulatory compliance.
A recent report by NTT Data reveals that manufacturing is now the most targeted sector for cyberattacks, with ransomware costs averaging $1.67 million per incident. ColorTokens’ Xshield includes an agentless Gatekeeper that integrates seamlessly into existing OT networks, enabling compliance with IEC-62443 standards. By segmenting conduits and zones, the platform mitigates the risk of ransomware spreading to critical control systems. OT systems remain operational, and compromised zones are isolated swiftly, minimizing downtime.
In healthcare, where clinical systems and patient records are mission critical, the impact of a cyberattack can be dire, leading to operational disruptions that can take months to fully recover from. The American Hospital Association’s 2024 survey recorded 386 successful hospital attacks by October 2024, with 69% of respondents reporting an impact on patient care and 28% experiencing higher mortality rates. Xshield empowers healthcare organizations to safeguard sensitive patient data and maintain continuity of care by ensuring attackers cannot move freely to sensitive areas such as EHRs or medical devices. When intruders slip through defenses, Xshield enforces micro-perimeters to control lateral movement of any attack.
In pharmaceuticals and biotech, disruptive downtime can disrupt research, halt production and threaten intellectual property. Organizations in this sector face an expanding attack surface propelled by “Pharma 4.0,” where production lines, research labs, and supply chains are interlinked. Xshield transcends basic segmentation by offering comprehensive visibility into how users, applications, and workloads interact, placing micro-perimeters around every resource. During active breaches, quarantining compromised segments ensures manufacturing lines, research labs, and core services remain operational. Afterward, its breach-impact reporting capabilities help teams close any revealed gaps and refine policies.
Ultimately, Xshield’s “breach-ready” posture depends on three key strengths:
Pervasive Coverage Across All Assets, delivering zero-trust microsegmentation across data center servers, cloud workloads, OT/IoT devices, and more.
Fastest Path to Breach Readiness through a progressive, metrics-driven approach that rapidly reduces attack surface.
Zero Disruption, where deploying changes in small testable modules prevents blocking valid traffic and avoids downtime.
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All of these scenarios, including healthcare, OT, pharma, biotech, explain why we walked away with so many awards at the Globee. Companies that might’ve been down for weeks are now bouncing back in days or even hours. Their revenue doesn’t stall, their IP stays safe, and they meet regulatory demands without constant firefighting.
Underneath it all is a simple concept: you can’t prevent every breach, but you can absolutely be ready to survive them. We’ve proven that Zero Trust microsegmentation is the backbone of that readiness. And the key ingredients? Full coverage across every corner of your network, a methodical but quick path to a locked-down environment, and the ability to deploy changes so seamlessly that no one’s productivity goes off the rails.
From Forrester’s nod to our microsegmentation strengths in OT, Healthcare, IoT, and incident response, to GigaOm and Constellation Research acknowledging us, the takeaway is you can rely on Xshield to clamp down fast and keep your systems rolling.
That’s why, as we gear up for RSA 2025, we’re celebrating these four Globee Cybersecurity Awards. They remind us we’re on the right track, helping organizations build resilience, maintain maximum continuity, and ensure breach readiness.
To see how our award-winning solutions can work for you, start a conversation with us today.
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