BlackRidge Technology Transport Access Control vs Project Cosigno comparison

BlackRidge products include hardware and software gateways and software endpoints that implement BlackRidge Transport Access Control (TAC) with First Packet Authentication™. BlackRidge gateways and endpoints perform identity insertion, identity resolution and policy enforcement on network sessions. Identity insertion is the process that associates a network connection request with a user or device identity and inserts identity tokens into TCP sessions. Identity resolution is the reverse process by which a BlackRidge gateway or endpoint associates and authenticates an identity token with a user or device identity. Policy enforcement implements the provisioned security policy — forward, redirect, or discard — for the connection request to a protected resource.

Project Cosigno provides security and infrastructure engineering teams a web-scale, unified platform to broker and issue service identities. Unlike other approaches, the solution provides scalable, cryptographic, platform agnostic identities based on open standards (SPIFFE). As a result, it enables you to boost security operations and developer productivity, reduce application on-boarding, accelerate cloud or container adoption while strengthening your overall security posture.