Xylem, Dragos Partner to Bring Cybersecurity Leadership to Water Utilities
October 04 2021 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
Leading global water technology company, Xylem Inc., and Dragos,
Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls
systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today
announced they have partnered to bring best-in-class industrial
cybersecurity to critical infrastructure in the water sector.
The agreement will see Xylem and Dragos offering co-branded
incident response and incident prevention services to Xylem’s water
utility customers worldwide. The partnership brings water utilities
the most experienced teams of digital water experts and industrial
cybersecurity practitioners.
“We’re enthusiastic about bringing to water operators the
combination of Xylem’s leadership in digital transformation, and
Dragos’ world-class expertise in securing critical infrastructure,”
said Nick Nedostup, Xylem’s chief information security officer.
“Modernizing water infrastructure with digital technology delivers
dramatic benefits – lowering costs and reducing both energy and
emissions while also making communities more resilient in the face
of climate change. And because water is so essential, water
infrastructure deserves the very best security against cyber
threats.”
“Achieving strong industrial cybersecurity in the water sector
requires the whole-of-network view across water systems that our
partnership with Xylem will bring to water utility customers
worldwide,” said Troy Roberts, vice president of worldwide sales,
Dragos Inc. “Dragos and Xylem share a commitment to enhancing the
safety, availability, and resiliency of critical infrastructure in
water and Xylem’s breadth and leadership in digital water solutions
make them a natural partner to solve these customer challenges in
water utilities worldwide.”
The Xylem-Dragos Incident Response Service builds on Xylem’s
robust product security framework, and works in conjunction with
utilities’ existing security systems, providing an extra layer of
protection. The partnership can also deliver both proactive threat
hunting in addition to rapid response, increasing uptime and
operational certainty. The service, available on a retainer basis,
hardens industrial control systems to prevent incidents, rapidly
responds to industrial intrusions, and reduces mean time to
recovery.
About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company
committed to solving critical water and infrastructure challenges
with innovation. Our more than 16,000 diverse employees delivered
revenue of $4.88 billion in 2020. We are creating a more
sustainable world by enabling our customers to optimize water and
resource management, and helping communities in more than 150
countries become water-secure. Join us at www.xylem.com.
About Dragos
Dragos has a global mission: to safeguard civilization from
those trying to disrupt the industrial infrastructure we depend on
every day. The practitioners who founded Dragos were drawn to this
mission through decades of government and private sector
experience.
Dragos codifies the knowledge of our cybersecurity experts into
an integrated software platform that provides customers critical
visibility into ICS and OT networks so that threats are identified
and can be addressed before they become significant events. Our
solutions protect organizations across a range of industries,
including power and water utilities, energy, and manufacturing, and
are optimized for emerging applications like the Industrial
Internet of Things (IIOT).
Dragos is privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC
area with regional presence around the world, including Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East.
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