Claroty recognised in 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for CPS Protection Platforms as representative vendor

Claroty, the cyber-physical systems protection company announced it has been recognised as a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for CPS Protection Platforms.

This is the first Gartner Market Guide to focus on cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection platforms as a market category, highlighting the growing need for technology solutions that discover and protect CPS assets in production and mission-critical environments amid a rapidly changing threat landscape. 

CPS protection platforms

According to the report, “Gartner defines the CPS protection platforms market as products and services that use knowledge of industrial protocols, operational/production network packets or traffic metadata, and physical process asset behavior to discover, categorise, map and protect CPS in production or mission-critical environments outside of enterprise IT environments."

"Gartner defines CPS as engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking, and analytics to interact with the physical world (including humans). When secure, they enable safe, real-time, reliable, resilient, and adaptable performance.”

Deep domain expertise

The key capabilities they should look for in a CPS protection platform align closely with Claroty’s vision and strategy"

“We believe that Gartner’s analysis of the market, how it has evolved from OT security to CPS security, the CPS-related challenges facing security and risk management (SRM) pioneers, and the key capabilities they should look for in a CPS protection platform aligns closely with Claroty’s vision and strategy,” said Yaniv Vardi, CEO of Claroty.

“With our highly advanced product portfolio, deep domain expertise across industrial, healthcare, commercial, and public sectors, and robust partner ecosystem, Claroty is uniquely equipped to support organisations across all maturity levels and all phases of the CPS security journey.”

Five distinct asset discovery methods

The report states, “Once focused mainly on passive deep packet inspection, most vendors seek differentiation and richer inventories with a variety of additional techniques, including native protocol active queries.” 

Claroty is the only vendor to offer five distinct asset discovery methods that customers can mix and match to suit their specific needs:

• Passive monitoring with deep packet inspection,
• Safe Queries, or native protocol active scanning,
• Project file analysis,
• The patented Claroty Edge uses a non-persistent binary, and
• Ecosystem enrichment via 70+ integrations with CMDB, firewall, backup, and recovery, and dozens of other tools that customers may already use.

Solutions for vulnerability management

As cybersecurity challenges present risks throughout the organisation beyond enterprise IT systems"

Gartner recommends, “As cybersecurity challenges present risks throughout the organisation beyond enterprise IT systems, SRM pioneers should evaluate where they are in their journey, and specifically, assess whether they have a good inventory of all CPS assets in their organisation, as well as solutions for vulnerability management, threat intelligence or specialised protection capabilities that IT-centric tools cannot address.” 

Claroty fulfills these recommendations via the following capabilities: 

• After discovering all CPS assets in the environment, Claroty enriches each of them with an unparalleled 90+ attributes from vendor and model, to firmware and rackslot as well as contextual information about how they communicate, the physical processes they underpin, and where they fit within the topology of the environment. Additionally, Claroty supports over 450 proprietary protocols. 
• The Claroty Platform fuels vulnerability management by automatically correlating each asset’s attributes against its database of CVEs, misconfigurations, findings from its award-winning Team82 researchers (who have disclosed nearly 500 vulnerabilities to date), and other flaws. The platform optimises asset risk prioritisation with custom risk scoring, which empowers customers to easily understand the cumulative vulnerabilities impacting an asset’s risk, how to prioritise remediation efforts accordingly and to model and refine their risk scoring based on their specific needs.
• Claroty aids threat intelligence by continuously updating indicators of compromise (IoCs) and signatures as they are being discovered, as well as automatically flagging behavioural anomalies. 

All of these capabilities and more from SaaS and on-premise deployment options to Zero Trust controls for network segmentation and secure remote access are augmented by Claroty’s 24/7 customer support and extensive partner network of 600+ resellers globally.