Dragos Launches Public Sector Subsidiary to Address OT Cybersecurity Challenges in Government

Authority to Operate with Sensitive Data and DISA STIG Highlight Dragos’s Commitment to Serving Federal Organizations

HANOVER, Md., Oct. 9, 2024 – Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the creation of Dragos Public Sector LLC, a dedicated subsidiary, delivering OT cybersecurity solutions to address the unique needs of government including US federal agencies. Leveraging US government expertise and US-based engineering, Dragos Public Sector aims to provide cybersecurity solutions that enhance visibility into federal OT environments, help public sector organizations prioritize and mitigate cyber risks, and improve the government’s ability to detect, respond and recover from OT-related cyber events. 

The new subsidiary formalizes Dragos’s strong public sector business, which has grown at a CAGR of 67% since 2020 and includes serving federal civilian and defense organizations including military services and combatant commands.  

Additionally, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has released the Dragos Platform 2.x Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), Version 1, Release 1, for immediate use. Since its founding Dragos has met the US government’s need for software supply chain control and resiliency through software solutions that are developed, owned, and managed within the US. These credentials validate Dragos Public Sector as a trusted government partner that meets the most rigorous demands for federal cybersecurity. 

“Federal agencies operate in highly sensitive environments that require robust security measures and compliance with stringent regulations,” said Daniel Dorchinsky, General Manager, Dragos Public Sector. “By speeding the government’s ability to identify OT threats and vulnerabilities, assess their severity, respond, and improve OT network resilience, Dragos Public Sector will help agencies protect critical national assets from cyberattacks ranging from opportunistic hacktivists to the most sophisticated state actors.” 

The Dragos Platform helps US Federal agencies ensure the highest levels of security in OT environments without disrupting critical operations. Providing automated asset discovery and monitoring, the Platform delivers asset inventory and visibility across the network that aligns with foundational zero trust requirements. Powered by Dragos OT cyber threat intelligence, the Platform accurately detects threats and provides actionable insights. With a risk-based vulnerability database and scoring system, users efficiently prioritize security actions considering operational needs. OT Response Playbooks streamline investigations, leveraging insights from the largest ICS/OT practitioner team to effectively respond to threats.  

Dragos Public Sector will leverage the expertise of its OT cybersecurity services and OT-focused cyber threat intelligence teams to support organizations in incorporating intelligence-informed best practice cybersecurity into the design, implementation and retrofit of OT facilities and assets, including facility-related control systems (FRCS).  

Dragos Public Sector is uniquely positioned to collaborate closely with US federal agencies based on Dragos’s extensive track record in public sector cyber defense and advanced threat intelligence capabilities. The Dragos team features numerous government cybersecurity veterans including Dragos CEO and Co-founder Robert M. Lee. Dragos Public Sector also brings threat intelligence and lessons learned from cyber activity across electricity, oil and gas, manufacturing and other critical infrastructure sectors.  

“Given our commitment to strengthening the nation’s public and private cyber defenses, we made the decision to build a software developer team entirely of US citizens, located entirely in the US,” said Robert M. Lee, CEO and Co-founder of Dragos, Inc. “This, together with decades of US government expertise and proven technology, uniquely positions Dragos Public Sector to understand, address and manage the cybersecurity needs of our federal agencies and safeguard our nation’s most critical assets.”  

Dragos Public Sector is led by Dorchinsky as General Manager and Chuck Weissenborn as its Public Sector Chief Technology Officer. Dorchinsky has led Public Sector businesses for more than 12 years including at Neo4j and SAP National Security Services. Weissenborn, who formerly led DoD cybersecurity solutions for Symantec and brings years of experience helping global organizations secure critical OT assets, will help ensure that public sector technical requirements are included in future Dragos offerings.  

Dragos, Inc. has a history of supporting public/private partnership programs including collaboration with Critical Infrastructure Security Agency through the Joint Collaborative Cyber Defense (JCDC) initiative and the Department of Energy’s Energy Threat Analysis Center program. CISA, DoE, and NSA are trusted advisors to Dragos, Inc’s Neighborhood Keeper program. 

About Dragos, Inc. 
Dragos provides the most effective OT cybersecurity technology for industrial and critical infrastructure to deliver on our global mission: to safeguard civilization. After nearly a decade of real-world experience handling landmark attacks on OT networks, Dragos understands the complexity and risks of industrial environments, which operate on massive scale with unique systems and exacting availability requirements and are not protected by IT cybersecurity. 

The Dragos Platform provides visibility and monitoring of OT environments for asset identification, vulnerability management, and threat detection with continuous insights generated by the industry’s most experienced OT threat intelligence and services team. It discovers and monitors OT, IT, IoT, and IIoT assets within the OT environment and integrates with IT security infrastructure. Dragos protects customers across a range of industrial sectors including electric, oil & gas, manufacturing, water, transportation, mining, and government. Dragos is privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC area with presence around the world and offices in North America, EMEA, and APAC. 

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