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Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the release of EmberAI, an OT-native AI built on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, the world's largest OT cybersecurity data set. EmberAI gives every analyst immediate access to Dragos’s OT-specific intelligence gained from over a decade of OT actions, activity, and knowledge.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the appointment of Dawn Mitchell as Chief People Officer. Mitchell will lead Dragos's People organization and partner across the business to support the company's growth and execution as demand for OT cybersecurity accelerates globally. She will focus on building the organizational capacity to serve more customers, expand into new markets, and maintain the technical depth and operational performance essential for protecting industrial and critical infrastructure.

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Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT), today announced Dragos Platform 3.0, delivering breakthrough capabilities that empower industrial defenders to act even faster and more confidently to protect against intensifying cyber threats. The Dragos Platform's new Insights Hub consolidates risk-based vulnerability, asset, and threat alerts into a single prioritized view, while streamlined workflows, AI-enhanced vulnerability processes, and smaller footprint deployment options dramatically reduce time-to-value for industrial organizations. A number of additional capabilities are included in 3.0 to simplify management and lower cost of operation.

Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the appointment of Eric Cross as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Cross will lead all global go-to-market functions, including sales, customer success, partner and channel ecosystems, and marketing, as the company continues to deliver on its mission to safeguard industrial and critical infrastructure.

Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced that Casey Herman, former Senior Audit Partner for energy and utilities at PwC, and Deborah C. Hopkins, former finance, cybersecurity, and innovation leader at Citi, Boeing, and Lucent Technologies, have joined the Dragos Board of Directors. Herman and Hopkins bring deep expertise that will be instrumental as Dragos drives operational excellence and expands its global footprint.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today released the Dragos 2025 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report, our 8th Annual Year in Review, the industry’s most comprehensive report on cyber threats facing industrial organizations. The report detailed two new OT cyber threat groups, reported ransomware activity surging at an increase of more than 87% over last year, and described the emergence of new malware families designed specifically for OT environments.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it has been named a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) Protection Platforms1. Dragos provides industry-leading, OT-native technology, the Dragos Platform, backed by comprehensive OT cyber threat intelligence and unrivaled cybersecurity expertise. Gartner evaluated 17 vendors against 15 criteria on two axes: Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

With the upcoming NERC CIP-015 requirements for Internal Network Security Monitoring (INSM), electric utilities can meet and exceed the stringent demands facing them with the advanced capabilities of the Dragos Platform. The Dragos Platform provides advanced internal network monitoring specifically designed for industrial environments, coupled with industry-leading threat detection capabilities. This empowers customers to meet INSM requirements and enhance their critical cybersecurity measures.

Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today released its sixth annual Dragos OT Cybersecurity Year in Review report, the most comprehensive report on cyber threats facing industrial organizations. The report named the emergence of three new threat groups, including VOLTZITE linked to Volt Typhoon, and found that ransomware continued to be the most reported cyber threat among industrial organizations with a nearly 50% increase in reported incidents. 2023 also saw the first time a hacktivist group achieved Stage 2 of the ICS Cyber Kill Chain.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it has appointed Rick Kramer as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Angela Crossman as Chief People Officer (CPO). Kramer and Crossman bring decades of industry and executive leadership and will drive strategic initiatives that support Dragos’s customers, partners, communities, and employees as demand for Dragos solutions continues to grow.

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Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it was named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America for the third consecutive year. Dragos grew more than 535% between 2019 and 2022.

CrowdStrike Fal.Con Conference – Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced an expansion of their partnership with CrowdStrike featuring two new integrations providing bilateral data sharing. Now, joint customers can get full visibility into IoT/OT assets and vulnerabilities in the industry-leading CrowdStrike Falcon® platform and enrich the Dragos platform with additional threat telemetry to accelerate the detection, investigation, and response of cyber incidents.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced a $74 million Series D extension, led by strategic operating and investing firm WestCap.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, announced today that Dragos was recognized as a recipient of the 2023 SC Awards in two separate categories: Best Industrial Security Solution and Most Promising Unicorn.

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Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it has appointed Kurt Gaudette as Vice President of Global Threat Intelligence. Gaudette brings more than 30 years of operational and technical intelligence experience to Dragos and will lead the company’s world-class team of adversary hunters, threat analysts, research engineers and analytic developers to discover, track, and disrupt threats to industrial control systems across the globe.

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Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it has been designated by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). As a CNA, Dragos is authorized to assign CVE IDs to newly discovered vulnerabilities and publicly disclose information about these vulnerabilities through CVE Records. This includes assigning CVE IDs to vulnerabilities found in the company’s own products as well as any third-party products not covered by another CNA that Dragos finds through its ongoing research to help organizations protect their ICS/OT systems.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the appointments of Hayley Turner as Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand, and Ben Sullivan as Senior Channel Manager, further strengthening the company’s Australia and New Zealand team.

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Robert M. Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, was named an Entrepreneur of the Year® 2022 Mid-Atlantic winner. Entrepreneur of the Year is one of the preeminent competitive business awards for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies who think big to succeed. An independent panel of judges selected Lee based on his entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth, and impact, among other core contributions and attributes.

Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the launch of its new Dragos OT-CERT (Operational Technology - Cyber Emergency Readiness Team), a cybersecurity resource designed for industrial asset owners and operators to help them build their OT cybersecurity programs, improve their security postures, and reduce OT risk.

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Dragos, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, has announced an initiative with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to bolster security and increase visibility among the United States critical energy infrastructure community through Dragos Neighborhood Keeper. Through the public-private partnership announced today, DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), under a Trusted Advisor role, will use Dragos Neighborhood Keeper. DOE analysts will be able to gain visibility into ICS/OT cyber threats facing the industrial infrastructure community participating in Neighborhood Keeper. All of this takes place without sharing any company data or sensitive identifying information, representing a completely unique capability of anonymous, real-time information sharing with OT stakeholders, including the government, on OT networks.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments, today announced the opening of its United Arab Emirates office in Dubai during its debut appearance at GISEC 2022.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today released its fifth annual Dragos ICS/OT Cybersecurity Year in Review (YIR) report, the most comprehensive report on cyber threats facing industrial organizations. The report named the emergence of three new threat groups targeting ICS/OT environments, including two that have gained access into the OT systems of industrial organizations. The report also shows the number of discovered vulnerabilities in OT systems in 2021 more than doubled over the previous year to 1,703. Ransomware became the number-one attack vector among industrial organizations, with manufacturing as the most targeted sector representing 65%, or 211, of the ransomware cases detected at industrial organizations.

Dragos, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, has announced initiatives with the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to strengthen security and visibility for United States critical infrastructure through Dragos’s Neighborhood Keeper, which provides real-time sharing of intelligence across ICS/OT networks.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced Dragos Academy, a new comprehensive educational and training program available to Dragos customers and partners. Dragos Academy aims to strengthen practitioners’ overall ICS/OT cybersecurity skills and help them fully operationalize and accelerate the time-to-value of the Dragos Platform, the most trusted cybersecurity platform for industrial networks providing asset visibility, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it ranked 45 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 27th year.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today released “The 2021 State of Industrial Cybersecurity: The Risks Created by the Cultural Divide Between the IT & OT Teams” report from the Ponemon Institute. The new annual report found only 21% of organizations have achieved full maturity of their ICS/OT cybersecurity program, in which emerging threats drive priority actions and C-level executives and the board are regularly informed about the state of their OT security.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it has raised a record-breaking $200 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1.7 billion. This marks the largest funding round and the highest valuation achieved by an OT cybersecurity company, providing further validation for the demand for OT cybersecurity. The funding will continue to accelerate the company’s global expansion and support customers in key growth markets across diverse industries including electric, oil & gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, water, and manufacturing.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial control systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced it is expanding its global presence into the UK to provide organisations in this growth market more direct access to its industrial cybersecurity technology and services and to develop and train ICS/OT cybersecurity talent across the region to ensure world-wide customer success. This follows an announcement earlier this year of the company's plan to grow its presence in Australia and New Zealand to support industrial cybersecurity customers across those regions.

Dragos, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, and the Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONG-ISAC), have announced a joint initiative to strengthen security and community-wide visibility for industrial cybersecurity in the North American oil and natural gas industry.

Dragos, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, and the Downstream Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (DNG-ISAC) have announced an initiative to strengthen security and community-wide visibility for industrial cybersecurity in the North American natural gas industry.

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced that it has become a founding sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center by Deloitte.

Dragos, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) have announced a joint initiative to strengthen collective defense and community-wide visibility for industrial cybersecurity in the North American electricity industry.