Dragos partners with insurance providers, brokers, legal firms for incident response, improved OT security - Industrial Cyber

News Vendors Dragos partners with insurance providers, brokers, legal firms for incident response, improved OT security MAY 21, 2024 Dragos announced multiple partnerships with insurance providers, brokers, and legal firms. This collaboration allows Dragos customers to create a unified incident command structure comprising internal and external teams that are prepared to communicate with each other, respond quickly to cyber events, and minimize damages. This is especially important for OT networks, where cyber-attacks can result in physical process disruption and destruction. “OT cyber-attacks are complex and can have harmful consequences in the physical world. Dragos is unique in having both the technology platform to detect compromise and the expert OT responders to investigate and identify root cause,” said Mark Stacey, director of strategy at Dragos. “We share a common goal with cyber-focused insurance and legal firms who are integral to an organization’s cybersecurity: to successfully prepare and protect our customers. These partnerships enable improved risk management and enhance disaster recovery, business continuity, and cybersecurity program plans for OT organizations.” In the event of an OT cybersecurity incident, timing is critical. These partnerships help to streamline communications and pre-configure roles and responsibilities for technical responders, plant personnel, insurance carriers, brokers, and legal firms. With these partnerships, carriers have verified Dragos as offering the technology, expertise and resources needed to effectively respond to OT cyber incidents. These partnerships also enable efficiencies and synergies that enable more comprehensive incident response, refine impact potential and improve cyber resiliency. Dragos is announcing partnerships with Antigen Security; AEGIS Insurance; Arch Insurance; McGriff Insurance Services; and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Additionally, the Dragos Platform has been appointed to the NetDiligience Cyber Risk Management Portal, eRiskHub. The Dragos Platform offers comprehensive OT network visibility and monitoring, enabling customers to identify and inventory assets, manage and prioritize vulnerabilities, and detect threats with enhanced context from OT cyber threat intelligence. Users can initiate investigations using relevant activity logs, timeline views, and response playbooks authored by Dragos experts, ensuring a thorough approach to incident investigation and response plan activation. Additionally, Dragos provides a range of OT cyber services, including proactive threat hunting, incident response planning, and retainer services, ensuring robust protection and preparedness. “Dragos is leading the way with innovative solutions that boost the security and resilience of operational technology and critical infrastructure,” said Steven Legg, CEO and co-founder of Antigen Security. “Antigen is excited to incorporate Dragos’ proven outcomes into our underwriting standards.” “Recent events have shown cyberattacks present an existential risk for both the public and private sector, and that the time to plan and prepare for cyber disruption is now,” said Pillsbury Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy co-leader Brian Finch. “Pillsbury is thrilled to be a part of Dragos’ inaugural raft of partners, joining with other industry leaders to collectively provide best-in-class pre- and post-incident cyber resources and guidance, ensure organizational readiness and minimize fallout.” “Through this unique collaboration, insurance carriers gain a better understanding of the environments’ risk for policy decisions, legal representation is better prepared where privilege or materiality may apply, and incident responders better understand channels of communication for critical findings,” stated Stacey. “All stakeholders benefit, and our shared customers are better prepared.” Industrial Cyber News Desk Industrial Cyber News Desk Related Booz Allen warns AI‑driven cyberattacks outpace human-driven defenses across critical infrastructure Kai debuts agentic AI platform to eliminate manual security workflows, boost cyber resilience across critical infrastructure Food and Ag-ISAC finds 72 active threat actors behind persistent, sophisticated cyber attacks targeting food supply chains ARCON teams with DNV Cyber to strengthen privileged access management capabilities in the Nordics New York introduces cybersecurity rules, $2.5 million grant program to strengthen water infrastructure defenses GAO report highlights risks to CMMC rollout as nation-state attacks target defense contractors ISAC advisory highlights cyber and physical risks to critical infrastructure as Middle East tensions rise Suspected Iran-linked cyberattack hits medical technology giant Stryker amid Middle East tensions Finland’s National Security Overview 2026 flags Russian and Chinese cyber espionage targeting government, critical infrastructure Cydome flags NAVTOR NavBox path traversal and authentication flaws exposing vessel data, networks to cyber risk