Elisity Named a Cool Vendor™ in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Cyber-Physical Systems Security 2025

September 30, 2025 at 14:15 PM EDT

We believe Elisity’s identity-based microsegmentation platform is recognized for enabling rapid Zero Trust implementation without hardware, agents, or network downtime

Elisity, the pioneer in identity-based microsegmentation, today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in Cyber-Physical Systems Security report by analyst Katell Thielemann.

According to the report, “The field of CPS security is evolving from a network-centric, reactive model focused on firewalls and prevention to a more mature discipline centered on proactive defense, asset-centric protection, and rapid recovery.”

“In our opinion, being recognized as a Cool Vendor validates our mission to make microsegmentation accessible to organizations that have historically struggled with complex, disruptive implementations,” said James Winebrenner, CEO of Elisity. “Our identity-based approach transforms network segmentation from a years-long infrastructure project into a solution that can be deployed in weeks without downtime. We feel, this recognition comes at a critical time when organizations across manufacturing, healthcare, and industrial sectors are mandated to implement network segmentation for regulatory compliance and cyber resilience.”

The Gartner report further notes that “To mitigate risks from remote access and lateral movement, cybersecurity leaders should deploy solutions that enforce granular, least-privilege access policies for all users, workloads, and devices. This includes leveraging technologies for microsegmentation and secure remote access that isolate sessions and control communication pathways.”

“Elisity is changing the game in microsegmentation because it’s moving away from the traditional agent-based approaches and manual processes that just don’t work at scale,” said Max Everett, CISO at Shaw Industries. “It’s doing things the way we need to do them to be successful in security — with real-time microsegmentation policy enforcement at the network level. I’m glad to see them getting the industry attention they deserve for actually solving problems that traditional vendors have struggled with for years.”

Elisity’s microsegmentation platform addresses the critical challenge facing cybersecurity leaders in large enterprises: preventing lateral movement attacks that enable ransomware spread, data exfiltration, and operational disruption from compromised critical systems while maintaining operational continuity. The platform rapidly discovers every user, workload, and device on enterprise networks and correlates comprehensive insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph™. This empowers security teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network.

The platform’s agentless architecture leverages existing switching infrastructure for policy enforcement, eliminating the need for new hardware, agents, VLANs, or complex ACLs. Organizations can implement comprehensive microsegmentation across IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT environments while respecting the sensitive and highly available nature of cyber-physical systems. Integration with existing security tech stacks via APIs correlates data from all available sources to enable more flexible and dynamic security policies.

Elisity has also enhanced its professional development offerings through the Elisity Academy, which experienced rapid adoption with several hundred certifications issued in 2025. The program now serves enterprise customers and partner solution architects with comprehensive training and certification programs. Building on the success of the Elisity Certified Policy Administrator certification, the company recently introduced the new Elisity Certified Deployment Administrator certification, designed to equip participants with core skills for deploying the Elisity platform across diverse network environments, including deployment models, Elisity Virtual Edge configuration, and operational workflows for distributed implementations through on-demand video training and lab deployment demonstrations.

Elisity was also recognized in the Gartner Hype Cycle™ for Enterprise Networking, 2025 and a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation. Elisity was also recognized in the Forrester Wave™ Microsegmentation Solutions Q3 2024 evaluation as a “Strong Performer,” investments from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), and customer Main Line Health receiving both the 2024 CSO Award and 2025 CIO 100 Award for cybersecurity excellence. The company expanded its customer base to include several Fortune 500 companies, with 83% successfully implementing critical security policies across their entire infrastructure within 90 days.

Gartner, Cool Vendors in Cyber-Physical Systems Security 2025, Katell Thielemann, 18 September 2025

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2025, Mike Leibovitz, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, 30 June 2025

Gartner, Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation, Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur, Charanpal Bhogal, 6 May 2025

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About Elisity

Elisity is a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented in weeks, without downtime, upon implementation, the platform rapidly discovers every user, workload, and device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph™. This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.

Gartner, Cool Vendors in Cyber-Physical Systems Security 2025, 18 September 2025.

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