OT Detection Market – Q2 2023 Update

OT Detection Market – Q2 2023 Update

It has been 18 months since my last OT Detection Market Update. The market shook itself out in 2020/2021 and changes have been smaller. No serious new competitors entering. The VC money coming into the space is greatly reduced, although this is likely due to economic...
The ETHOS Of Unusual Cooperation

The ETHOS Of Unusual Cooperation

There was a surprising announcement yesterday in the OT detection space with the creation of the Emerging Threat Open Sharing (ETHOS) organization, open source project and development plan. Surprising because of the members. The big three in OT detection:...
Pivot To Process Variable Anomaly Detection

Pivot To Process Variable Anomaly Detection

Summary: Vendors who are focused on compromise of Level 0 to Level 1 communications should pivot to process variable anomaly detection. There are a handful of vendors (Siga being the most active, Mission Secure, Fortiphyd, … and a couple I likely missed) who focus on...
OT Visibility & Detection Market – Q4 2021 Update

OT Visibility & Detection Market – Q4 2021 Update

The OT Visibility and Detection Market has consolidated to a big 3 of pure plays, a handful of enterprise vendors who have acquired their way into OT, and the niche players whose best hope is to get acquired before the music stops. With the war chests full, this...
Evaluating The ICS ATT&CK Evaluations

Evaluating The ICS ATT&CK Evaluations

Last week the MITRE Engenuity team released the results from their first ATT&CK Evaluations for ICS. I spent hours looking at the MITRE published results and the evaluated vendors’ write ups of the results. It was a professionally executed and realistic...
ICS Detection Market Update – Q2 2021

ICS Detection Market Update – Q2 2021

See previous analysis on my ICS Detection Market page. We Have A Winner The ICS Detection Market is the clear ICS security market winner of 2021 to date. Even before the Colonial Pipeline incident it was clear that well funded and relentless marketing by vendors in...
2020 Predictions – Right, Wrong & Pending

2020 Predictions – Right, Wrong & Pending

I made a number of predictions in 2020, some overlapping, in both my coverage of the detection market and as a feature of the monthly ICS security month in review episodes of the Unsolicited Response podcast. The predictions help with my analysis and hopefully...
ICS Detection Market Analysis – Part 2

ICS Detection Market Analysis – Part 2

Since I began seriously covering the ICS Detection Space in 2016, the products were quite similar. They passively listened on switch span ports and taps to: create an asset inventory (and provide vulnerability management but not asset management)detect attacks...
ICS Detection Market – Part 1

ICS Detection Market – Part 1

Part 1 looks at some of the major changes in the competitors focused primarily on the ICS detection market since the May update. Part 2 comes out next Tuesday and will map out where the competitors stand relative to each other and be a major change to the Tiers...
Why Did Microsoft Acquire CyberX?

Why Did Microsoft Acquire CyberX?

The rumors started in February and became reality this week. Microsoft acquired CyberX. The price is not a material event for Microsoft. It will never be officially released. A recent article claimed the price was $165M, and I predicted it would be...