Dragos to provide free cybersecurity software to small utility providers to protect critical infrastructure

(UI) – Dragos Inc. announced the Dragos Community Defense Program will provide free OT cybersecurity software for small water, electric, and natural gas providers. Initially available in the United States, offerings include the award-winning Dragos Platform and Neighborhood Keeper.

Small utilities are critical infrastructure, but have limited resources to defend their systems from cyber threats. Protecting power and water systems, including those operating underground, has become more challenging than ever as global threat actors and ransomware groups target critical infrastructure with increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. The Dragos Community Defense Program helps alleviate the strain and protect communities from potentially destructive industrial cyber-attacks.

The Dragos Community Defense Program gives under-resourced US-based utility providers with under $100 million in annual revenue access to Dragos products that provide a robust, multi-layered foundation for building and growing their OT cybersecurity programs, improving their security postures, and reducing OT cyber risk.

The Community Defense Program includes the Dragos Platform, which offers asset visibility and inventory, threat detection, vulnerability management and threat hunting services. The program also includes Neighborhood Keeper, providing collective defense and community threat visibility among participating Dragos customers using aggregated data.

“Governments and large infrastructure providers are heavily investing in industrial cybersecurity, but small utilities that deliver critical services to the majority of people haven’t been able to do the same. They have been over-strained and under-resourced for far too long and the Community Defense Program aims to change that,” said Robert M. Lee, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Dragos, Inc.

Dragos OT-CERT (OT-Cyber Emergency Readiness Team) will support participants in the Dragos Community Defense Program. OT-CERT offerings include free how-to guides and demonstration videos, best practices, training, interactive working sessions, tabletop exercises, and webinars to build industrial cybersecurity expertise and address shortages of OT security skills. Dragos has been supporting under-resourced organizations with free resources since 2022 with OT-CERT, which has over 1,500 members in 60 countries.

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