BlackRidge Technology International, Inc. has announced at PTC's 2019 LiveWorx® digital transformation conference, an industrial version of its TAC Identity Device (TAC-ID), a security device for industrial Internet of things (IIoT) networks. TAC-ID provides identity at the edge for IoT environments to support network-connection authentication for new and legacy equipment in industrial, health care and critical infrastructure environments. First demonstrated at CES in January and now available for purchase, TAC-ID is part of BlackRidge's Transport Access Control (TAC) product family, which uses the company's patented First Packet Authentication™ technology to authenticate users and devices in the very first packet of a TCP/IP session, before a network connection is established. TAC-ID can be used with legacy IoT infrastructure that was not designed to support the secure convergence of IT and OT networks and enable secure industrial automation. BlackRidge's TAC-ID is ready out-of-the-box to be integrated with PTC's ThingWorx® IIoT platform and Kepware® industrial automation connectivity software. BlackRidge IoT security solutions are available on the PTC Marketplace and directly from the company. BlackRidge Technology is an elite sponsor of LiveWorx19, PTC's annual digital transformation conference from June 10-13 in Boston's Seaport district. The definitive global digital transformation conference illustrates how people are complemented by technology rather than replaced by it. Over the course of four days, the event brings together more than 6,000 attendees for hundreds of breakout sessions, Track Spotlight presentations, and powerful keynote speakers in an immersive, interactive technology playground. In booth #224 in the Xtropolis exhibit hall, BlackRidge staff will be demonstrating how to segment and secure IT and OT for factory automation with a zero trust approach to legacy and future architectures.