ColorTokens Breaks the Scale with First-Ever Average Score of 5.0 in Key Features in GigaOm Microsegmentation Radar

In cybersecurity, everyone talks about preventing breaches. But at ColorTokens, we’ve taken a different approach. We focus on helping our customers contain, withstand, and recover from breaches with minimal business disruption. That’s what it means to be Breach Ready. 

And that’s exactly what we built Xshield to deliver. 

Which is why I’m especially proud to share this milestone: 

ColorTokens has been recognized as both a Leader and an Outperformer in GigaOm’s Microsegmentation Radar, and is the first and only vendor to score a perfect 5.0 across every single key feature. That’s unprecedented.

GigaOm evaluated 15 leading vendors on real-world capabilities. Here’s how ColorTokens performed:

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What Breach-Ready Microsegmentation Looks Like

At ColorTokens, we’ve never treated microsegmentation as a checkbox. We see it as a foundational capability that enables true Breach Readiness. Kudos to the GigaOm team for evaluating the criteria that matter — and for recognizing the complexity of getting microsegmentation right.

Here’s how our approach differentiated us in each category:

• Automated discovery and mapping 
  Of all assets across environments — including cloud workloads, data centers, and on-premises entities.
• Traffic and behavior analysis 
  Understanding traffic behavior and its relevance to — and impact on — lateral movement.
• Policy definition engine 
  Translating the business need to keep applications running while progressively restricting the most commonly exploited lateral pathways — with minimal effort to define and maintain policies.
• Network-based policy enforcement 
  Leveraging pervasive and relevant enforcement points across cloud, data centers, containers, IoT, and OT environments.
• Integrations 
  Bi-directional integrations that allow microsegmentation and other enterprise tools to share context and intelligently orchestrate workflows.
• Identity-based policy enforcement 
  Using policy constructs that are independent of infrastructure — governed by business and security context rather than infrastructure attributes.

What’s Next

To our customers: thank you for challenging us to solve real problems.

To the GigaOm team: thank you for an honest, grounded assessment — one that wasn’t swayed by legacy or logo size.

To CISOs and security leaders: this recognition reinforces what we hear every day — that it’s no longer about the number of tools in your stack, but how effective they are at containing and withstanding breaches to protect what matters.

Being “Breach Ready” means more than surviving a breach. It means containing it. Withstanding it. Minimizing business impact. And recovering stronger than before.

Read the full GigaOm Radar report or request a live demo of Xshield in action here.