AKMSecure Joins the Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition

AKMSecure has joined the Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition (OTCC), bringing Autonomous Key Management™ to the coalition’s work on cybersecurity policy and critical infrastructure resilience.

The OTCC is a coalition of cybersecurity stakeholders dedicated to improving OT security and strengthening public policy to protect the systems that underpin critical infrastructure across the country. AKMSecure’s membership expands the coalition’s technical depth in areas where encryption has historically been absent — constrained OT endpoints, air-gapped environments, and systems that demand continuous availability.

What AKM Brings to the Coalition

Most OT environments remain unencrypted. The protocols that secure enterprise IT — built on PKI and certificate authorities — were never designed for the constrained devices and disconnected networks that keep critical infrastructure running. AKM closes that gap. Its lightweight SDK deploys directly onto OT endpoints, delivering quantum-secure encryption without the certificate lifecycle, CA dependency, or network connectivity that PKI demands.

The founding AKMSecure team’s experience includes work with GDIT, Alstom Rail, Airbus, and Boeing, along with direct contributions to international cybersecurity standards including IEC 62443 and CENELEC TS-50701. That standards-level expertise is central to what AKMSecure contributes to the OTCC’s policy mission.

“Critical infrastructure operators have been asked to secure OT environments using PKI based security, which doesn’t work in OT. Autonomous Key Management fills that gap — it’s autonomous, quantum-secure, air-gapped capable, and deployable on the constrained devices that keep critical infrastructure running. The policy work from OTCC is enabling this important advancement,” said AKMSecure CEO Brian McGowan.

“Industry collaboration is essential to improving the cybersecurity of operational technology and strengthening the resilience of the systems that underpin critical infrastructure,” said Tatyana Bolton, Executive Director of the OT Cyber Coalition. “We welcome AKMSecure to the coalition and look forward to their contributions to advancing stronger cybersecurity policy and security practices for OT environments.”

Read the full Q&A with AKMSecure about joining the coalition and the cybersecurity challenges facing OT environments.

About AKMSecure

AKMSecure delivers a patented Autonomous Key Management™ protocol built to replace outdated PKI approaches with a dynamic, quantum-secure, air-gapped-capable architecture. Instead of relying on persistent credentials that can be stolen, reused, or abused, AKM enables independently verified sessions with no standing privileges left behind. The result is a model that better aligns with Zero Trust principles, reduces credential-based risk, and supports resilient operations across enterprise IT, OT and Tactical Edge environments. Built to NSA-grade security standards and deployable as a lightweight SDK, AKMSecure helps organizations modernize trust at the protocol layer without rebuilding everything around it.