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.
"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."
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 and NetRise 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 Protection Platforms, Leader in the Omdia Market Radar: OT Cybersecurity Platforms, 2026, and Leader and no. 1 in Innovation in Frost & Sullivan's Frost Radar: OT Cybersecurity Solutions, 2025.
About Dragos
Dragos is the global leader in extended operational technology (xOT) cybersecurity, delivering on its mission to safeguard civilization. Built for the full xOT environment, the Dragos Platform delivers asset visibility, continuous monitoring, OT vulnerability management, segmentation validation, device protection, and real-time threat detection. Dragos serves critical sectors including energy, manufacturing, water, transportation, and data centers.
