For federal manufacturing operations, the stakes are especially high. Unlike the commercial sector, where profitability drives decisions, federal facilities focus on achieving national objectives. Many of these objectives are intangible, unquantifiable by standard economic metrics, and central to U.S. resilience against sophisticated state-sponsored threats.
The core principles of OT security—ensuring continuity, safeguarding process integrity, and preventing disruption—apply to both public and private sectors. However, the acceptable level of risk in the federal context is far narrower, as operational disruptions can undermine critical national capabilities.
Federal manufacturing is a strategic asset, essential to producing critical goods such as medical devices, currency, and energy systems with different risk thresholds than their commercial counterparts. Safeguarding these capabilities requires transforming OT security from a business function into a pillar of national security and mission assurance. This is the role The Claroty Platform is built to fulfill.
