Dragos and Yokogawa announce global partnership

OT cybersecurity company Dragos has announced a global partnership with Yokogawa Electric Corporation through which the Dragos Platform has been validated within Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP distributed control system.

As industrial organisations continue their digital transformation, it is becoming essential that security teams have visibility across both IT and OT networks.

“This partnership with Yokogawa marks a significant milestone in our mission to secure industrial environments worldwide,” said Robert Lee, CEO and Co-founder of Dragos. “By combining Dragos’s industry-leading OT cybersecurity platform with Yokogawa’s extensive expertise in industrial automation, we’re providing organisations with unparalleled visibility and protection for their critical infrastructure.

“This collaboration enables us to deliver comprehensive OT-native network visibility and monitoring, ensuring that our joint customers can confidently navigate their digital transformation journey while maintaining the highest levels of operational safety and reliability.”

The Dragos OT Cybersecurity Platform is focused on reducing cyber risk to industrial environments. The company says it provides visibility into assets and vulnerabilities, detects cyberthreats to industrial systems, and enables efficient response through forensic investigation and OT-specific playbooks.

Dragos says that users of the Dragos Platform and the Yokogawa CENTUM VP distributed control system (DCS) will benefit from:

• Validated integration: The Dragos Platform has been validated within Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP distributed control system (DCS).
• Comprehensive visibility: Enhanced visibility into the CENTUM VP environment, allowing industrial organisations to discover and monitor assets, track and mitigate vulnerabilities, and leverage traffic monitoring information to investigate issues and incidents effectively.
• Advanced threat detection and response: More efficient threat detection, response, and mitigation to help maintain safety and uptime. Codified threat detections, response playbooks and vulnerability guidance written specifically for OT by the Dragos Threat Intelligence team will be delivered weekly through content packs.
• CENTUM VP-specific capabilities: The Dragos Platform incorporates CENTUM VP DCS platform-specific capabilities, including protocol dissectors, asset characterisations, threat behaviour analytics, and investigation playbooks. These features expand Yokogawa’s cybersecurity assessment capabilities and enhance threat detection and response processes.
• Global OT cybersecurity services: Joint customers of Dragos and Yokogawa gain access to a full range of OT cybersecurity services available throughout Yokogawa’s global services network, catering to the unique needs of processing and manufacturing industries.
• Collaborative expertise: Users will benefit from the combined knowledge and experience of Dragos and Yokogawa, including educational resources such as white papers, webinars and other materials to enhance the capabilities of cybersecurity defenders in industrial environments.
   

“At Yokogawa, we recognise the critical importance of cybersecurity in today’s rapidly evolving industrial landscape,” said Katsunori Iijima, General Manager of Cybersecurity Management at Yokogawa. “Our partnership with Dragos allows us to offer our customers a best-in-class OT security solution that seamlessly integrates with our CENTUM VP platform.

“This collaboration enhances our ability to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services on a global scale, ensuring that our customers can focus on their core operations while we safeguard their critical assets.”

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