Xona | About Us

Xona provides secure remote access for OT and ICS environments.

Our platform is designed for industrial operations where environments are complex, change slowly, and cannot tolerate unnecessary disruption.

We help organizations replace legacy remote access approaches with access that is tightly controlled, auditable, and predictable, without forcing operators or security teams into brittle workflows or risky workarounds.

Over time, Xona aims to become a core access control layer for industrial environments where security and uptime must coexist.

Remote access is essential in OT and ICS environments. Maintenance, troubleshooting, and vendor support all depend on it. But most access methods in use today were designed for IT environments, not industrial operations.

VPNs, jump hosts, and static trust models tend to expand network reach well beyond what is needed. During outages or time-sensitive maintenance windows, teams often face a familiar tradeoff: delay work to navigate  access hurdles, or open broader access than they are comfortable with  to get the job done.

As industrial environments became more connected and third-party access increased, that tradeoff became harder to justify. Xona was built to remove it with an access model designed specifically for critical infrastructure.

In late 2017, Bill Moore was at Washington Gas when a SCADA supervisor described a problem that felt all too familiar. Remote access was slow, fragile, and difficult to manage. Routine maintenance required navigating a maze of VPNs, jump servers, and firewall rules,  often under time pressure.

Bill called his longtime engineering partner, Pete Gregel, with an idea. They built an early prototype and brought it in for a live demo.

What stood out was not just that access worked without VPNs  or complex network changes. It was that users could get in, do the work they needed to do, and get out, without lighting up the rest  of the network or creating lingering access paths.

That moment clarified a core principle. The safest access model  is the one operators will actually use during real operational moments, including the ones that happen at 2 a.m. That principle continues  to guide how Xona is built today.

Xona takes a Zero Trust approach to remote access that is grounded  in how industrial environments actually operate.

Access is verified every time it is used and deliberately scoped  to specific systems and tasks, so reach is limited by design rather  than dependent on after-the-fact controls. There is no broad network connectivity and no assumption that access should persist beyond  its purpose.

Xona is designed to integrate into existing security and network architectures and to respect established segmentation and control boundaries, rather than work around them. The result is access that behaves consistently, even under operational pressure.