Agencies are looking for ways to increase their velocity to deploy critical network infrastructure without introducing more risk into the network.
Itential’s automation and orchestration solutions define a new standard in network management, empowering network teams with a modern set of integrated tools to orchestrate network changes faster with a higher level of stability and security – augmented by AI-enabled workflows that bring predictive intelligence to mission-critical infrastructure.
Why Itential Is Trusted by the Public Sector
U.S. public sector agencies, from federal to civilian to the intelligence community, trust Itential to streamline infrastructure management, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure secure and seamless communication across hybrid cloud environments – achieving mission-critical objectives faster, more reliably, and with reduced risk.
Ensure Network Stability & Security
Use orchestration to accelerate software upgrades for network devices, build and enforce Golden Configuration and compliance standards for any network device or service.
Achieve 100% Network Uptime & Eliminate Errors
Validate every network change is compliant before it’s activated, integrate directly with IT systems for inventory and configuration data, build robust pre- and post-check processes into every workflow.
Accelerate Service Delivery
Increase your agency’s speed to deploy services with workflows that can operate on CLI managed devices or API managed services, and across any network domain whether it’s on-prem or cloud.
Streamline Network Management
Increase the productivity of network engineering teams without increasing hours. Leverage efficient tooling for pushing configuration updates and provisioning services across complex infrastructure without retraining with Itential’s intuitive interface and low-code capabilities.
Respond Quickly to Evolving Threats
Rapidly adopt new security standards and solutions to protect your network while knowing your orchestration platform can always support them. Build workflows to remediate evolving issues, iterate Golden Configuration templates, and automate scheduled security audits to respond as quickly as possible to any anomalies or breaches in the network.
Authority to Operate
Ensure your orchestration platform won’t introduce risk to your network. Itential’s track record provides confidence – we’ve successfully obtained Authority to Operate (ATO) accreditation for existing U.S. government projects.
Partners for Success
Automation is a cornerstone of digital transformation, helping Government agencies modernize legacy systems and better align IT operations with their mission objectives. This collaboration enables the Public Sector to modernize IT infrastructure while enhancing operational efficiency and improving service delivery through intelligent automation. Together with Itential and our reseller partners, Carahsoft is committed to supporting agencies in achieving their mission-critical goals with speed, security and scalability.
Natalie Gregory, Vice President for Open Source and DevSecOps Solutions at Carahsoft
Itential Accelerates Network Modernization for the U.S. Public Sector
Civilian
Civilian agencies are tasked with delivering critical services such as healthcare, financial, scientific, legislative, and legal support to citizens efficiently and reliably. Itential’s network automation and orchestration solutions empower agencies to achieve mission success more quickly, with greater flexibility and reduced risk.
Intelligence Community
The intelligence community operates in a dynamic and complex environment where adaptability and innovation are crucial. Itential’s advanced network automation and orchestration solutions provide the intelligence sector with the agility needed to respond to evolving threats and operational demands.
Defense
The defense and intelligence sectors in the United States face the ongoing need to adapt and innovate to ensure national security. Itential’s products are built to integrate with newly adopted technologies without any custom development or waiting time, allowing agencies to adopt new tools and rapidly build new processes to support the innovation that keeps America safe.
Federal System Integrators
Federal systems integrators play a pivotal role in delivering integrated solutions that meet the complex needs of government agencies. Itential’s network automation and orchestration platform empowers federal systems integrators to enhance their service offerings by streamlining network management and simplifying complex workflows.
Federal Agency Modernizes Mission-Critical Networks Through Automation & Orchestration With Itential
Over time, we’ve been a little slow to adopt new tools, or even devices due to federal regulations. But to scale our network, our capabilities, we need to rapidly change how we’re working to manage configuration compliance with our team and Itential is the platform to get us there.
Senior Network Engineer, Federal Agency
Comprehensive Automation & Orchestration Features Tailored for the Public Sector
Public sector network and infrastructure teams are looking to evolve and modernize quickly, while retaining confidence in robust compliance and security management capabilities. Itential’s comprehensive automation, orchestration, and compliance management features are perfectly suited to public sector priorities.
- Ensure continuous compliance with industry regulations through automated policy enforcement.
- Dynamic, customizable compliance reporting insights for applications and services across anything in your environment, CLI and API, based on defined requirements and standards.
- Coordinate change processes across distributed, evolving infrastructure. Deliver even the most complex changes as end-to-end outcomes.
- Rapidly accelerate network and infrastructure orchestration without retraining or heavy manual effort.
- Secure, organize, share, and run existing script automation assets.
- Easily onboard script automations you’ve built, with the ability to integrate them with the rest of your change process.
- No-code integration with any systems in your environment to build reliable and flexible orchestrations.
- Easily build your own integrations to custom-built systems.
- AI-driven intent flows through the MCP Server into the platform’s workflow engine – every action is validated, schema-checked, and executed only via approved automation workflows.
- All changes triggered via AI agents are captured in the platform’s audit trail, enforcing RBAC, approvals and full traceability across network, cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- Existing automation assets and integrations are exposed to AI in a governed catalog – letting agencies leverage current scripts, workflows, and infrastructure under a unified, secure control layer
- Privacy: Itential invested in GDPR and CCPA compliance to ensure all data is handled with care.
- Security: The Itential Automation Platform safeguards your data with controls like role-based permissions and encryption in transit and at rest.
- Compliance: Verify Itential’s security, availability, confidentiality, and processing integrity with SOC2.
- Architected to support networks of any size, type, and complexity.
- Supports a variety of high availability deployment patterns, from single-server all the way to full-scale blue/green multi-region disaster recovery configuration.
Itential Automation & Orchestration Capabilities Across Teams
Adopting network automation and orchestration delivers transformative benefits across multiple teams. From scripts to self-service to agentic orchestration – our focus on enabling both high-code automation with low-code orchestration for traditional and cloud networks enables network teams to quickly build and deliver secure, compliant infrastructure services, enabling rapid modernization without compromise.
For Network Teams
- Onboard, leverage, and secure existing Ansible, Python, and OpenTofu automations for scale.
- Manage configuration compliance across CLI and API resources.
- Generate dynamic compliance reports and enforce customizable Compliance Plans based on hierarchical Golden Configuration templates.
- Integrate network orchestration with all systems of record and security solutions.
For Cloud & DevOps Teams
- Avoid the need to learn network-specific information and eliminate friction in network service requests.
- Securely self-serve the network as an approved catalog of standardized services, facilitating rapid development.
- Integrate cloud platforms with change management, security platforms, and more.
- Manage cloud service offerings over their entire lifecycle, defining and tracking services to streamline service management over time.
For Security Teams
- Leverage unique configuration compliance management, validation, and remediation capabilities to maintain compliance across a distributed, multi-vendor network.
- Ensure all network change processes are integrated with security platforms.
- Ensure all standards and requirements are followed across distributed infrastructure.
- Create an audit trail for every single network change.
For IT & App Teams
- Self-serve the network as a catalog of standardized, secure services that drive efficiency across the organization.
- Avoid the need to learn network-specific information and eliminate friction in network service requests.
- Native ServiceNow App for allowing users to run Itential automations to complete IT service requests and deliver infrastructure service request with cloud-like efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Itential be deployed in secure or air-gapped environments?
Yes. Itential supports on-prem and air-gapped deployments. Execution and data stay inside your network, meeting federal and defense requirements.
How does Itential help with federal compliance standards?
Itential enforces golden configs and policy checks aligned to NIST, FISMA, CMMC, and other mandates, producing audit-ready evidence for agencies.
Does Itential support classified or segmented networks?
Yes. Multiple gateways allow segmentation by domain or clearance level while still orchestrating centrally.
How can AI copilots be used securely in government networks?
AI copilots interact only with Itential workflows exposed through APIs, not devices directly. Policies, RBAC, and masking protect sensitive configs, and copilots never train on customer data.
Learn More with Itential Content
Blogs
- Modernization Without Disruption: Orchestrating Federal Networks for Zero Trust & Compliance
- How the Public Sector can Automate Network Changes in a STIG Environment
- Accelerating Network Modernization in the Public Sector Through Automation & Orchestration
- How to Automate Scanning & Remediation for Network Device Security Vulnerabilities with Itential
- AI-Driven Golden Configuration Trees: End Compliance Fire Drills, Forever
- Order Over Chaos: How Itential Equips Teams to Manage Ordered List Configurations
- Orchestrating Resilience: How CIOs & CISOs are Hardening the Edge
Other Resources
- Securing Utilities Serving DoD Bases
- Itential & Carahsoft Partner to Bring Hybrid Cloud Network Automation & Orchestration to the Public Sector
- Federal Agency Modernizes Mission-Critical Networks Through Automation & Orchestration with Itential
- Itential & Fierce Software Sign Distribution Agreement to Expand Network Automation & Orchestration Initiatives in the Public Sector
- How to Track & Orchestrate Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Security Services
- How to Execute Compliance & Remediation of Vulnerable Features on Cisco IOS XE Devices
- Itential for the Public Sector Solution Overview
- Full-Stack Compliance as a Service: Empower App Teams, Without Losing Control
