Frost Radar™: Operational Technology Cybersecurity Solutions, 2023

Frost Radar™: Operational Technology Cybersecurity Solutions, 2023

This Frost Radar™ analyzes the operational technology (OT) cybersecurity solutions industry, with a specific focus on vendors that offer an asset visibility and threat detection platform as a core offering to spearhead their OT cybersecurity strategies. As the OT cybersecurity ecosystem has expanded, the competitive landscape has started to form distinct vendor groups that range from visibility and threat detection (the focus of this analysis), risk and compliance assessment, and managed security services specifically for OT systems.

OT visibility and detection solutions enable security teams to gain insight into the traditionally siloed ecosystem of OT networks and assets. With IT cybersecurity solutions unable to adequately scan, identify, or detect malicious activity in an OT environment, businesses will need to expand their security operation to include OT-specific capabilities or risk leaving their organizations vulnerable to threats.

OT cybersecurity typically is brought up in the context of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity or critical infrastructure cybersecurity, but these labels fail to consider the growing number of market verticals now utilizing OT assets or how internet of things (IoT)-enabled devices factor into the broader security conversation.

The latest developments in the OT cybersecurity ecosystem also come from the ongoing digitalization trends occurring across a multitude of customer industries, as well as exponential growth in IoT asset usage and connectivity, responses to the exponential growth in OT-specific threats or critical infrastructure organizations being targeted by cyberattacks and growing regulatory and business pressure to ensure efficiency and uninterrupted activity.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.