This is for everyone who couldn’t pronounce our name, or asked what an iolite was in the first place. iolite is pronounced “eye-oh-lite.”
iolite is a deep blue-violet gemstone with a historical tie to navigation. According to legend, it has been called the “Viking Compass” and was used for navigation when conditions obscured visibility. iolite secure gives operators visibility in their own environments when it is difficult to see.
A nod to our roots
iolite incorporates elements of technology developed by The MITRE Corporation on behalf of the US Government, originally for resource-constrained tactical environments, including platforms operating at sea.
iolite’s commercial platform is horizontal software that supports a broad range of environments. Our name reflects the technology’s natural alignment with maritime.
Why purple?
An iolite’s natural color ranges from pale blue to a deep violet. Purple also carries meaning in cybersecurity.
Red teams test security posture through offensive tactics such as attack simulation using ethical hackers. Blue teams defend organizations through tactics such as detecting, blocking, and responding to threats. Purple teams have a collaborative mission and combine data from both teams to remediate threats faster.
The collaborative mindset is how we approach our mission. Security cannot be separated from operations, or imposed without operational context. Protecting critical systems requires enabling the true cyber frontline: our nation’s operators.
Visibility, not a fortress
Traditionally, security has been thought of as a castle: build stronger walls, fortify the gates, keep the adversaries out.
Operational infrastructure can’t fit that model. Critical infrastructure and Operational Technology (OT) have legacy assets that can’t run massive enterprise-size fortresses. Even strong preventative controls cannot eliminate every risk.
What is important is visibility into how things should be, and how they shouldn’t be. Establish expected behavior and identify meaningful deviations before they become a disruption.
Simply, iolite
It is only by coincidence that .io has been made popular in software company branding. It certainly made choosing our domain easy (iolitesecure.io), and it certainly makes the misspelling iOlite make sense. iolite’s lightweight deployment also makes io-LITE a common-sense misspelling.
Our name reflects where we came from, the way we work, and what we want to bring to the world: visibility amid obscurity. That is iolite. A bright, purple, visible, meaningful mission.
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