Dragos forges key partnerships to enhance OT cybersecurity

Dragos, a leading supplier of cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, has announced its new partnerships with top industry players in the insurance, brokerage, and legal sectors, specifically naming companies like AEGIS, McGriff, and Pillsbury. This innovative collaboration aims to create a unified incident command structure that integrates internal and external teams capable of effectively responding to cyber events while minimising damages.

The collaboration is particularly vital for OT networks, where cyber-attacks can lead to physical disruptions and destruction. Dragos boasts both a robust technology platform for detecting threats and a team of expert OT responders to investigate and identify root causes. According to Mark Stacey, Director of Strategy at Dragos, these partnerships with cyber-focused insurance and legal firms aim to enhance risk management and fortify disaster recovery, business continuity, and cybersecurity programmes within OT organisations.

With the emergence of this collaboration, the focus is on streamlining communications and pre-configuring roles and responsibilities among technical responders, plant personnel, insurance carriers, brokers, and legal firms. The integration verifies Dragos' capability to provide the necessary technology, expertise, and resources for an efficient response to OT cyber incidents. As a result, the partnerships promise to yield comprehensive incident response, refine impact assessments, and bolster cyber resiliency.

Dragos has announced its partnerships with firms such as Antigen Security, AEGIS Insurance, Arch Insurance, McGriff Insurance Services, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLC. The Dragos Platform has also been recognised by the NetDiligience Cyber Risk for its capabilities.

The Dragos Platform offers extensive OT network visibility and monitoring, enabling customers to identify and inventory assets, manage and prioritise vulnerabilities, and detect threats with detailed context from top-tier OT cyber threat intelligence. Through this platform, users can initiate investigations leveraging relevant activity logs, timeline views, and response playbooks authored by Dragos experts. Additionally, the platform provides a comprehensive suite of OT cyber services, including proactive threat hunting, incident response planning, and retainer services, ensuring robust protection and preparedness.

Steven Legg, CEO and Co-Founder of Antigen Security, remarked on Dragos' contributions to OT security and resilience, expressing enthusiasm for incorporating Dragos' successful outcomes into their underwriting standards. Meanwhile, Brian Finch, co-leader of Pillsbury's Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy division, emphasised the significant risk that cyber-attacks pose to both the public and private sectors and the necessity of planning and preparation. Finch lauded the partnership's potential to deliver unparalleled pre- and post-incident cyber resources and guidance, ensuring organisational readiness and mitigating fallout.