AZT PROTECT™ to be deployed at the largest cement production plant sites to secure production from attacks while lowering operating costs

BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / April 23, 2026 / ARIA Cybersecurity, a CSPi business (NASDAQ:CSPI), announces a major new customer deployment agreement to deploy of ARIA's flagship solution, AZT PROTECT™, to protect Cement plant operations at one of the largest US cement producers.

The cement industry has been a top target of cybercrime, including sponsored ransomware. This large cement and building products producer became concerned that attacks would get through IT network defenses and take down critical production systems. AZT was lab tested and piloted in one plant to prove its claims - that the following selection criteria could be met:

ARIA AZT demonstrated that systems could be locked down, preventing any unwanted executable from activating, as well as blocking malicious processes. Blocking all attacks in testing, without ever requiring an Internet connection or updates.

ARIA demonstrated how it keeps critical applications protected from vulnerability exploits. Removing the need for security patching by saving $1000s per plant per month while reducing the risk of harm from an attack.

ARIA was lightweight, never taking more than 1 core of processing nor more than 100MB of device memory. Ideal for legacy systems that could not run competitive endpoint protection applications that would disrupt production. Preserving the useful life of these at-capacity systems

AZT could protect legacy out-of-support systems whose vendors were no longer providing security patches. Indefinitely preserving the life of the majority of each plant's systems, which are running Windows 10 or older operating systems. Saving up to $30,000 per system in replacement costs.

AZT can be deployed across a plant in a single day without taking the systems out of production. A major savings in deployment effort while allowing a quick time to protection - reducing risk.

AZT met CISA's CPG 2.0 and IEC 62443 requirements for endpoint protection on all devices, which no longer allow inadequate network-only security protection.

AZT was the only solution to meet these requirements, and in doing so, set the plants up to improve their operating costs after deployment. A competitive advantage.