Cynalytica, Inc and Dragos Public Sector Partner to Deliver Full-Spectrum OT Security. Partnership gives critical infrastructure operators OT/ICS cybersecurity across both legacy serial/analog systems and modern IP-based industrial networks. this integration brings that field-level layer into the same monitoring environment as the IP infrastructure Dragos already protects." - Dan Dorchinsky, General Manager of Dragos Public Sector LLC SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, CA, UNITED STATES, September 16, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - Cynalytica, Inc and Dragos Public Sector Partner to Deliver Full-Spectrum OT Security for Water, Electric, and Government Infrastructure Partnership gives critical infrastructure operators OT/ICS cybersecurity across both legacy serial/analog systems and modern IP-based industrial networks, from the physical layer up through the enterprise. Cynalytica Inc. today announced a partnership with Dragos Public Sector, integrating Cynalytica's OTNetGuard (R), SerialGuard (R), and AnalytICS Engine platforms with the Dragos Platform. The integration gives water utilities, electric operators, and government agencies a single, unified view of security and operations across their industrial environment, from the field devices that physically control pumps, breakers, and valves to the IP networks that connect them. The Business Challenge Critical infrastructure runs on two layers of technology. Modern IP-based networks handle much of the data traffic across an operational environment equipment that operates pumps, breakers, relays, and valves, much of it decades old, communicates over legacy serial and analog connections that never touch an IP network at all. Many water utilities, electric distribution and transmission operators, and other critical infrastructure owners who have achieved visibility of IP-connected assets want to extend insight into the legacy field equipment that keeps physical operations running. This partnership combines Dragos's xOT cybersecurity platform with Cynalytica's specialized monitoring of serial and analog communications. What the Partnership Delivers By integrating platforms, Cynalytica and Dragos give operators: - One unified asset inventory across every device on-site, whether it communicates over serial, analog, or IP - Correlated threat detection that connects activity at the field-device level with activity on the IP network, revealing coordinated attacks that would otherwise appear as unrelated, isolated events - No disruption to operations - Dragos's multi-detection engine uses both passive and smart active querying fully configurable by the administrator, while Cynalytica monitors passively, and together they require no changes to control systems, no new network paths, and no risk introduced to live processes - Faster, more confident response through Dragos's playbook-driven detection and response capabilities, now informed by data from the field layer as well as the network layer - Stronger compliance posture for utilities and agencies subject to NERC CIP, AWWA, and other sector-specific regulatory frameworks Why It Matters for Operators Water and electric utilities face growing pressure to demonstrate comprehensive protection of their infrastructure, often with lean security teams and equipment that spans multiple generations of technology. This partnership allows those teams to work from one consolidated picture of their environment instead of stitching together insights from separate, disconnected systems, reducing complexity while extending protection to assets that previously had little to no monitoring at all. Executive Perspective "Utilities and government agencies have told us for years that they need one place to look, not five," said Richard Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Cynalytica. "Dragos has set the standard for OT threat detection on the network side. By bringing our field-level visibility into that picture, operators get a complete, correlated view of their environment. from the control room down to the equipment on the ground." "Government agencies and critical infrastructure operators often run environments where decades-old serial and analog field communications sit alongside modern IP networks. For those operators, this integration brings that field-level layer into the same monitoring environment as the IP infrastructure Dragos already protects," said Dan Dorchinsky, General Manager of Dragos Public Sector LLC. "That gives the public sector customers Dragos serves a continuous, correlated view across their full operational environment from a single platform." Availability The integrated Cynalytica-Dragos solution is available now for deployment by water utilities, electric operators, and government critical infrastructure customers. About Cynalytica Inc. Cynalytica Inc. delivers cybersecurity and operational intelligence solutions purpose-built for legacy and modern ICS/SCADA environments, providing visibility into serial, analog, and IP industrial communications to protect critical infrastructure. About Dragos Public Sector LLC Dragos Public Sector LLC is a subsidiary of Dragos Inc., the global technology leader in cybersecurity for extended operational technology (xOT) environments, dedicated to safeguarding civilization from those seeking to disrupt the industrial infrastructure that people rely on every hour of every day. Media Contact: Jessica Ohnona · Cynalytica Inc. Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. News Break Middle East do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

Dragos named a Leader in Operational Technology Security Solutions. Dragos | Published 4 Sept 2026 COMPANY NEWS: Dragos Platform receives highest score in the Strategy category, highest scores possible in eight criteria Dragos, the global leader in extended operational technology (xOT) cybersecurity, been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026. Dragos received the highest score in the Strategy category and was the only vendor to receive a 5/5 score in the Vision criterion. The Forrester report finds that "operational technology (OT) environments are now tightly interconnected with enterprise IT, cloud platforms, and third-party service providers, fundamentally changing their risk profile," and that "traditional OT security approaches built on perimeter controls and asset visibility are no longer sufficient." "We built the Dragos Platform for the environment as it exists, not as it was categorised," said Robert M. Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Dragos. "Operational environments have extended beyond the boundaries the industry historically drew around OT. Power grids, pipelines, manufacturing facilities, and data centres now depend on a wider range of technologies connected to and capable of affecting operations. Together, those technologies make up xOT, and adversaries are already operating across them. Defenders need visibility, intelligence, and control that reach just as far." Dragos received the highest available score in eight criteria across the evaluation. In the Strategy category, those criteria were Vision, Innovation, Adoption, and Community. In the Current Offering category, they were threat and anomaly detection, OT-specific incident investigation and response, IT/OT convergence support and SOC integration depth, and OT security services. The Dragos Platform provides the foundation for securing xOT environments across critical infrastructure and manufacturing, combining asset visibility, detailed situational awareness, and operational context with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and threat detection at scale. It is powered by the Dragos Intelligence Fabric built from over a decade of operational telemetry, adversary research, and incident response. Dragos EmberAI puts that intelligence directly in every analyst's hands to empower them, regardless of experience, to move from alert to informed action faster, and make defensible decisions grounded in real adversary data. Dragos also delivers finished threat intelligence addressing threats to xOT systems, produced by the largest private OT/ICS threat intelligence team in the industry. "For us, this recognition reflects years of work building an ecosystem that includes our platform, intelligence and services that elevates and encompasses the full operations for xOT environments," said Jodi Schatz, Chief Product Officer, Dragos. "Attack timelines have compressed from months to weeks to days, and security teams need the knowledge, tools and services to ensure the security and resiliency of their entire xOT footprint. Our commitment has been constant and unwavering because safeguarding civilisation is and has always been our mission. The investments we've made in our development of new and innovative methodologies, and technologies, and partnerships are all in service of giving customers the strongest and most comprehensive xOT defence across their industrial footprint." Forrester's evaluation of Dragos states, "Dragos's vision takes a comprehensive view of the IT and OT interconnection while focusing on the importance of cyber resilience for industrial control systems." Dragos has continued to build momentum to define and defend the extended operational environment, most recently through Accenture's majority stake investment which will bring runZero (exposure management) and NetRise (software supply chain risk) under Dragos management, extending the platform's reach even more broadly across xOT. Dragos has also expanded its partnership with Microsoft, deploying the Dragos Platform on Microsoft Azure and integrating with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. This recognition caps 12 months of notable analyst recognition for the Dragos Platform, including being named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) Protection Platforms, Leader in the Omdia Market Radar: OT Cybersecurity Platforms, 2026, and Leader and no. 1 in Innovation in Frost & Sullivan's Frost RadarTM: OT Cybersecurity Solutions, 2025. Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. This report is part of a broader collection of Forrester resources, including interactive models, frameworks, tools, data, and access to analyst guidance. For more information, read about Forrester's objectivity here.

FIRST ON FOX: Texas becomes testing ground for new defense against attacks on America's water systems. FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is launching "Project Watershed 250" Monday, Fox News Digital exclusively learned, deploying American artificial intelligence and cybersecurity tools to protect Texas water systems from cyberattacks in a pilot the administration plans to scale nationwide. "Project Watershed 250 is another example of President Trump putting American families and communities first. President Trump is relentless in his work to secure our critical infrastructure against our most determined adversaries," National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross told Fox News Digital. "President Trump has cemented America's leadership in AI security and innovation and is now bringing those exquisite tools to local communities and utilities in Texas and ultimately, across the nation through the launch of Project Watershed 250 - a scalable cyber water pilot program." The Trump administration is bringing federal, state and private-sector cyber defenses together in a six-month Texas pilot aimed at finding vulnerabilities in water systems before adversaries can exploit them - while testing whether the model can be expanded across the country. The program will connect Texas water utilities with U.S. cybersecurity companies to test their existing defenses and strengthen vulnerable systems using private-sector cyber and artificial intelligence tools, a White House official told Fox News Digital. The program will use "red-teaming" to stress-test water utilities' networks, identify weaknesses hackers could exploit and then strengthen those systems with cybersecurity tools, according to a White House official. Dragos CEO Robert Lee said that U.S. water infrastructure faces active, documented threats, particularly at small utilities that often lack strong cybersecurity defenses. Lee said Watershed 250 will help get technology, training and support to those vulnerable systems before an attack occurs. "There is nothing more important to Texans than clean, reliable drinking water. Project Watershed 250 puts federal, state, and private-sector cyber defenses behind our utilities at no cost. The White House, the Texas Cyber Command, and industry now work from the same playbook," said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. A White House official, however, said the program is not in response to recent cyberattacks that targeted more than 30 Minnesota water systems, though the incidents underscored vulnerabilities in local infrastructure. "However, these recent attacks have reiterated the need for this modernization and focus on water systems," said the White House official. "Critical Infrastructure protection has long been a priority for ONCD and President Trump and this effort has been in the works since last year." The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will serve as federal partners in the effort, while Texas Cyber Command will work alongside the White House with local governments and tech companies such as Microsoft, Reflection AI, Palo Alto Networks and Dragos Inc. "Few things matter more than the safety of the water Americans drink, and this is a powerful example of how open-weight AI models, built in the U.S. and running on a utility's own systems, can help keep communities safe," said Becky Sosnov, Reflection AI head of corporate affairs. "Microsoft applauds the administration's leadership in strengthening the cybersecurity of America's water infrastructure and is proud to support the Project Watershed 250 effort in partnership with the Office of the National Cyber Director, the State of Texas, and Texas Cyber Command," said Microsoft US Public Sector president Chris Barry. "By bringing together Microsoft's cybersecurity expertise, threat intelligence, and AI-powered security capabilities, we aim to help water utilities strengthen their resilience against evolving cyber threats and develop scalable approaches that can enhance the security of water systems nationwide." The push comes as the Trump administration races to build out U.S. data centers to fuel the AI boom, putting more attention on the water and power needed to keep them running. The pilot program builds on Trump's June executive order on Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security and his Cyber Strategy for America released in March. Latest Political News on Fox News