Secure connected farms, dairies and food production
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 mix of legacy and modern equipment across farms, dairies, processing plants and field sites — most of it now connected, usually with minimal IT budget and staff. Automation brought real productivity, and a wider attack surface, to an operation where a stoppage spoils product and animals still need milking.
It's no longer just your data at risk. It's the OT and IoT that run production, irrigation, milking parlors, feed delivery, processing lines that ship without built-in security and are all now connected and vulnerable to attackers. Intelligence reporting points to Russia and China among the actors targeting food supply chains. At the same time, the FCC has determined that the foreign-made routers common on farms and in plants pose an unacceptable national-security risk. The gear you already run may be the greatest threat to your livelihood.
Lost production
A halted parlor, line or irrigation run is product you can't recover and animals that still need attention.
Stolen data
Yield maps, herd records and proprietary process data walking out the door.
Recovery costs
Incident response, replacement, and ransom a lean operation can't absorb.
Spoilage and welfare
Downtime that spoils product, breaks the cold chain, or leaves animals unattended.
- Smart devices — robotic milkers, drones, cameras, NAS drives.
- Dumb devices — irrigation controllers, feed systems, automatic tank gauges, environmental sensors.
- Legacy systems — PCs, servers, and computers embedded in machinery too costly or critical to replace, and that can't be patched.
Virtual Private Circuit (VPC)
Take the parlor, the plant, the field sites, and the 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 production, office, and partners stay separated.
- Production, office, and remote sites on one circuit
- No public exposure to scan or reach
- Identity-based access between systems and sites
- No thousands of firewall rules to manage
Owner-Controlled 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 records, data, or process know-how you protect.
- Protect herd records, yield data and process know-how
- Keys stay with the operation
- 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, technicians and vets.
- Out-of-band Zero Trust authentication
- Time-limited, scoped vendor and technician 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 production
Secure the infrastructure you already have — don't rip and replace it
What about the foreign-made routers on the FCC's Covered List, or the legacy gear in the parlor and the plant that can't be patched? Ripping out and replacing equipment that's running production is slow, costly, and disruptive.
Deploying a Faction Virtual Private Circuit is the faster, lower-cost path. You secure the machines and devices that matter by choosing from three flexible options — Faction Pods and Portals, Faction Outposts, or hardware you already own enabled with Canopy — and you can pick one or mix and match.
- 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 stoppage.
- Reach Zero Trust on your timeline and budget.
Bring everything from PLCs to IP cameras onto your owner-controlled network — reachable by what you need, unreachable from the public Internet. No agents, minimal IT support, no rip-and-replace.
Supports food and agriculture security guidance
Owner-controlled keys, cryptographic isolation, and identity-based access map to the controls that food and agriculture guidance calls for — applied to the OT, IoT, and legacy systems traditional tools can't secure.
Access Control — identity-based, least-privilege access to systems; nothing anonymous on the network.
System & Communications Protection — cryptographic isolation and owner-controlled 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, technicians and suppliers.
Foreign-made routers pose clear risks and should be assessed for replacement or reconfiguration. Deploy a Faction Pod, Portal or Outpost, or bring hardware you already own under Faction protection with Canopy, to reduce exposure without rip-and-replace.
Own your trust. Keep your peace of mind.
The new threat environment calls for a new Zero Trust model. We'd welcome the chance to show you how Faction puts you in control and secures your critical systems and assets rapidly with low cost and IT overhead.