Dragos Named a 2018 Cool Vendor in Industrial IoT and OT Security by Gartner

Dragos, Inc. recognized by Gartner as an innovative, impactful, and intriguing for its ICS cybersecurity technology.

HANOVER, Md., May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dragos, Inc., the industry’s trusted leader in industrial threat detection and response, announced today it has been selected as a Cool Vendor in the April 2018 “Cool Vendors in Industrial IoT and OT Security, 2018” report by Gartner, Inc. Industrial security companies selected for the report have been identified by the leading research firm as vendors who “bring notable approaches to protecting converging IT/OT for critical infrastructure ecosystems.”

“The Dragos mission set out to do something different,” said Dragos’ CEO and Co-Founder Robert M. Lee. “We focused on combining our expert ICS cybersecurity practitioners with threat intelligence into our technology. It’s exciting to see it working so well as to be recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor.”

Dragos offers a comprehensive industrial threat detection and response solution that uses an intelligence-driven approach to detect threats and empower its customers with the knowledge of how to respond to them. The Dragos solution ecosystem includes: the Dragos Platform, software providing industrial control system (ICS)-specific asset discovery, threat detection, and investigation capabilities; Dragos Threat Operations Center, providing ICS threat hunting, incident response services, and ICS cybersecurity training; and Dragos ICS WorldView, providing global, ICS-specific threat intelligence in the form of weekly reports and critical alerts.

Dragos’ technology and services are focused on helping its customers gain better visibility of their ICS assets, understand their networks’ specific threats, and put proper security infrastructure in place for those specific threats. Dragos codifies the ICS-specific knowledge of its threat intelligence team through the technology to its customers, which means more effective and efficient defense and on-the-job training through its investigation playbooks—step-by-step guides that aid analysts during investigations and incident response.

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About Dragos
Dragos applies expert human intelligence and threat behavior analytics to redefine industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity.  Its industry-first, ICS cybersecurity ecosystem provides industrial security practitioners with unprecedented situational awareness over their environments, with comprehensive threat intelligence, detection, and response capabilities.  Dragos’ solutions include: the Dragos Platform, software providing ICS-specific asset discovery, threat detection, and investigation capabilities; Dragos Threat Operations Center, providing ICS threat hunting, incident response services, and ICS cybersecurity training; and Dragos ICS WorldView, providing global, ICS-specific threat intelligence in the form of weekly reports and critical alerts upon discovery.  Headquartered in metropolitan Washington DC, Dragos’ team of ICS cybersecurity experts are practitioners who’ve lived the problems the industry faces, hailing from across the U.S. Intelligence Community to private sector industrial companies. For more information, please visit dragos.com.

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