For years, critical infrastructure operators have been forced to choose between uptime and robust cybersecurity protection. Traditional controls, such as firewalls, either slow systems down or cannot be deployed at all in fragile OT environments. By integrating Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs , Zero Trust enforcement moves directly into the infrastructure itself, delivering hardware-isolated, hardware-accelerated, line-rate protection for un-agentable and mission-critical systems without sacrificing performance. The systems that cannot fail It is 2:17 AM in a regional power operations center. An engineer notices abnormal traffic between two supervisory systems that rarely communicate. Within seconds, a controller responsible for load balancing begins issuing unexpected commands. Nothing crashes. Nothing explodes. But something is wrong.…