Dist ibutio Pa t e ship Gives Gove me t Co t act-Ready Access to C ytica’s RDAi™ to Detect U autho ized OT I st uctio -Set Cha ges Withi Seco ds
RENO, Nev., a d RESTON, Va., Nov. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — C ytica Secu ity, develope of the wo ld’s fi st Rapid Detectio , Ale t a d isolatio (RDAi™) solutio , a d Ca ahsoft Tech ology Co p., The T usted Gove me t IT Solutio s P ovide ®, today a ou ced a dist ibutio pa t e ship that moves OT th eat detectio f om the etwo k i to the device itself. U de the ag eeme t, Ca ahsoft will se ve as a Public Secto dist ibuto fo C ytica, maki g RDAi available to Fede al age cies a d State, Local a d Educatio (SLED) o ga izatio s ac oss the U.S. Public Secto th ough Ca ahsoft’s eselle pa t e s a d NASA Solutio s fo E te p ise-Wide P ocu eme t (SEWP V) a d Natio al Associatio of State P ocu eme t Officials (NASPO) ValuePoi t co t acts.
“Pa t e i g with Ca ahsoft p ovides C ytica Secu ity with the b oad Gove me t each that allows us to accele ate the deployme t of ou pate ted RDAi tech ology withi Fede al, State a d Local Gove me ts a d Educatio al i stitutio s,” said C. Lloyd Mahaffey, Executive Chai ma a d Co-Fou de of C ytica Secu ity. “We a e pleased to wo k togethe to help p otect millio s of c itical i f ast uctu e devices i the U ited States.”
F om milita y i stallatio s a d Fede al facilities to mu icipal wate systems, public powe utilities, t a sit etwo ks a d u ive sity campuses, Public Secto OT is a sustai ed ta get fo atio -state acto s seeki g pe siste t access to c itical i f ast uctu e. Ma y OT secu ity solutio s ely o etwo k mo ito i g, asset discove y a d behavio al a alysis to detect pote tial th eats. These capabilities p ovide impo ta t visibility but a e ot desig ed to dete mi istically detect u autho ized cha ges to the i st uctio sets u i g i side the devices themselves. RDAi adds a compleme ta y laye of detectio by mo ito i g device i st uctio sets di ectly. Its P obe, as small as 70KB, detects u autho ized cha ges withi seco ds usi g dete mi istic detectio , without elyi g o th eat sig atu es o behavio al a alysis.
RDAi is desig ed to e ha ce those i vestme ts, ot eplace them. Its ale ts flow i to the secu ity platfo ms a d wo kflows age cies al eady ely o , addi g device-level evide ce that helps teams espo d faste a d make bette -i fo med isolatio decisio s.
As age cies wo k to secu e the legacy a d missio -c itical devices behi d thei ope atio s, RDAi e ables them to:
- Fit a ti y P obe, as small as 70KB, i side legacy a d esou ce-co st ai ed OT devices.
- See i side devices whe e t aditio al tools ca ot ope ate.
- Detect u autho ized cha ges to i st uctio sets withi seco ds, at i jectio .
- Receive dete mi istic, high-fidelity ale ts that educe false positives.
- E able apid espo se a d suppo t isolatio decisio s with actio able ale ts.
- E ha ce existi g SOC, SIEM a d XDR i vestme ts without eplaci g them.
“We a e pleased to pa t e with C ytica Secu ity to b i g a i ovative, device-level laye of OT th eat detectio to the Public Secto ,” said B ia O’Do ell, Vice P eside t of Cybe secu ity Solutio s at Ca ahsoft. “By detecti g u autho ized cha ges di ectly withi OT devices, C ytica’s RDAi solutio compleme ts existi g secu ity i vestme ts a d helps Gove me t age cies st e gthe the p otectio of the c itical i f ast uctu e thei commu ities depe d o . Th ough eselle pa t e s, we look fo wa d to maki g this tech ology mo e accessible to the Public Secto .”
C ytica’s RDAi solutio is available th ough Ca ahsoft’s SEWP V co t acts NNG15SC03B a d NNG15SC27B a d NASPO ValuePoi t Maste Ag eeme t #AR2472. Fo mo e i fo matio , co tact the Ca ahsoft Team at c yticasecu ity@ca ahsoft.com.
