ColorTokens named leader in Forrester Wave for microsegmentation

ColorTokens has been named a Leader in the recent Forrester Wave: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024 evaluation. The independent research firm conducted a comprehensive qualitative assessment of 11 vendors, measured against 23 criteria, to arrive at its conclusions.

The Forrester report highlights ColorTokens’ strategy, noting it is driven by a vision to make its customers "breach ready". The report states, "ColorTokens was one of the first vendors to provide broad horizontal policy across infrastructure to quickly reduce the threat surface." The report goes on to emphasise a unique feature of the ColorTokens solution, where operators can view all untagged assets, a capability not found in most other evaluated vendors.

ColorTokens' Xshield solution, central to its success, utilises both software agents and agentless solutions to transmit data flows and telemetry to a cloud-managed service. This setup allows for comprehensive remote administration.

Policies within the Xshield solution are bolstered by AI and enforced down to the host and process levels. The solution's user interface is unified across various policy types and provides multiple flow views. Horizontal policies can be quickly adjusted using a slider feature, and results can be visualised and simulated. Furthermore, policies are versioned daily, allowing for rapid rollbacks if needed.

In the evaluation, Forrester awarded ColorTokens the highest possible scores in several categories, including Flow and Asset Discovery, Visibility, Policy Management, Microservices, OT, Healthcare and IoT, ZTNA Integration, Administrative Experience, Incident Response, Other Integrations, Vision, and Supporting Services and Offerings.

According to Forrester, "Reference customers specifically called out the superlative support ColorTokens provides, which can include onsite engineers and quick feature requests." The report concludes that ColorTokens is well-suited for midsize to large organisations seeking a dedicated partner for their microsegmentation projects.

Rajesh Khazanchi, CEO and Co-founder of ColorTokens, remarked on the recognition, saying, “We are proud of our Leader status in the new Forrester report, and I believe it reflects our commitment to continuous innovation to produce the best possible solutions to defend our clients' critical digital operations from cyber-attacks.” He added, “Our comprehensive zero-trust microsegmentation protects all possible points of a breach beyond traditional IT infrastructure, including Internet-of-Things, containerised microservices, legacy systems and Operational Technology/Industrial Control Systems, leaving no dangerous gaps in our customers' security strategy.”

This recognition by Forrester comes shortly after ColorTokens was named to the Constellation Shortlists for Microsegmentation and Healthcare IT Security for Q3 2024. The solutions provided by ColorTokens focus on making organisations "breach ready" by halting the lateral spread of ransomware and malware within complex network infrastructures using its innovative Xshield platform.