Tempered Networks is the pioneer of Identity-Defined Networking (IDN), a unified secure networking architecture that offers a game-changing and proven alternative to traditional IP networking. By introducing trust with cryptographic identities within the network, we enable a simpler approach to instantly connect, protect, and disconnect any resource globally across physical, virtual, and cloud domains. With our next-generation network virtualization fabric-based architecture, all aspects of the network can for the first time be software-defined, encrypted, segmented, cloaked, and orchestrated, easily. Based on Host Identity Protocol (HIP), an open standard ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), our technology has been in production for over 10 years at a Fortune 50 company and only recently commercialized for the broader market. The IDN fabric is non-disruptive, can be deployed on-top of any IP network, and enables rapid provisioning and revocation of networking and security services that are managed in a highly dynamic and scalable way. Unlike traditional IP networking and SDN approaches, the IDN fabric requires few, if any, changes to the underlying network or security infrastructure, reducing the need for complex firewall rules, ACLs, VLANs, VPN policies and key management. The outcome is a completely unique approach to networking that enables organizations to achieve superior security, agility and economics.