Dragos, Inc., the global leader in extended operational technology (xOT) cybersecurity, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026. Dragos received the highest score in the Strategy category and was the only vendor to receive a 5/5 score in the Vision criterion.

The Forrester report finds that “operational technology (OT) environments are now tightly interconnected with enterprise IT, cloud platforms, and third-party service providers, fundamentally changing their risk profile,” and that “traditional OT security approaches built on perimeter controls and asset visibility are no longer sufficient.”

“We built the Dragos Platform for the environment as it exists, not as it was categorized,” said Robert M. Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Dragos. “Operational environments have extended beyond the boundaries the industry historically drew around OT. Power grids, pipelines, manufacturing facilities, and data centers now depend on a wider range of technologies connected to and capable of affecting operations. Together, those technologies make up xOT, and adversaries are already operating across them. Defenders need visibility, intelligence, and control that reach just as far.”

Dragos received the highest available score in eight criteria across the evaluation. In the Strategy category, those criteria were Vision, Innovation, Adoption, and Community. In the Current Offering category, they were threat and anomaly detection, OT-specific incident investigation and response, IT/OT convergence support and SOC integration depth, and OT security services.

The Dragos Platform provides the foundation for securing xOT environments across critical infrastructure and manufacturing, combining asset visibility, detailed situational awareness, and operational context with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and threat detection at scale. It is powered by the Dragos Intelligence Fabric built from over a decade of operational telemetry, adversary research, and incident response. Dragos EmberAI puts that intelligence directly in every analyst’s hands to empower them, regardless of experience, to move from alert to informed action faster, and make defensible decisions grounded in real adversary data. Dragos also delivers finished threat intelligence addressing threats to xOT systems, produced by the largest private OT/ICS threat intelligence team in the industry.

“For us, this recognition reflects years of work building an ecosystem that includes our platform, intelligence and services that elevates and encompasses the full operations for xOT environments,” said Jodi Schatz, Chief Product Officer, Dragos. “Attack timelines have compressed from months to weeks to days, and security teams need the knowledge, tools and services to ensure the security and resiliency of their entire xOT footprint. Our commitment has been constant and unwavering because safeguarding civilization is and has always been our mission. The investments we’ve made in our development of new and innovative methodologies, technologies, and partnerships are all in service of giving customers the strongest and most comprehensive xOT defense across their industrial footprint.”

Forrester’s evaluation of Dragos states, “Dragos’s vision takes a comprehensive view of the IT and OT interconnection while focusing on the importance of cyber resilience for industrial control systems.” Dragos has continued to build momentum to define and defend the extended operational environment, most recently through Accenture’s majority stake investment which will bring runZero (exposure management) and NetRise (software supply chain risk) under Dragos management, extending the platform’s reach even more broadly across xOT. Dragos has also expanded its partnership with Microsoft, deploying the Dragos Platform on Microsoft Azure and integrating with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender.

This recognition caps 12 months of notable analyst recognition for the Dragos Platform, including being named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) Protection Platforms, Leader in the Omdia Market Radar: OT Cybersecurity Platforms, 2026, and Leader and no. 1 in Innovation in Frost & Sullivan’s Frost RadarTM: OT Cybersecurity Solutions, 2025.

For more information read Dragos’s blog on the report. A complimentary copy of the full Forrester report is available here.

Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. This report is part of a broader collection of Forrester resources, including interactive models, frameworks, tools, data, and access to analyst guidance. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

About Dragos

Dragos is the global leader in extended operational technolgy (xOT) cybersecurity, delivering on its mission to safeguard civilization. Built for the full xOT environment, or xOT, the Dragos Platform delivers asset visibility, continuous monitoring, OT vulnerability management, segmentation validation, device protection, and real-time threat detection, powered by the industry’s most experienced OT threat intelligence and incident response team. Dragos serves critical sectors including energy, manufacturing, water, transportation, and data centers. Privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos operates globally across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Visit dragos.com.

Media gallery

About The Author
Business Wire