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Dragos Launches EmberAI, OT-Native AI Built on Decade of Expertise


Dragos Launches EmberAI, OT-Native AI Built on Decade of Expertise
  • by: Business Wire
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  • June 24, 2026

Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, has announced the release of EmberAI, an OT-native AI built on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, the world's largest OT cybersecurity data set. EmberAI gives every analyst immediate access to Dragos's OT-specific intelligence gained from over a decade of OT actions, activity, and knowledge. Putting historical and real-time intel in the hands of every security analyst, EmberAI enables teams to gain detailed visibility into assets, vulnerabilities, and network activity across their OT environment, prioritize threats by operational impact, and act on findings specific to their environment.

Quick Intel

  • EmberAI is an OT-native AI built on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric with over five petabytes of daily OT telemetry.

  • The AI provides intelligence-driven query engine, contextual correlation, and adversary-informed guidance for OT security.

  • EmberAI enables analysts of all experience levels to move from alert to informed action faster.

  • Customer data never leaves the customer's environment, with EmberAI operating inside the Dragos Platform deployment.

  • The Dragos Intelligence Fabric includes 10+ years of adversary tracking and 600+ OT protocols.

  • EmberAI is generally available today inside the Dragos Platform.

The Challenge of OT Cybersecurity

Threat activity against critical infrastructure is accelerating. The OT cybersecurity skills needed to address these complex tactics and techniques continue to grow, and the shortage of professionals who can meet that demand continues to widen. Existing tools prioritize visibility over understanding, and general-purpose AI lacks the operational context to distinguish a critical exposure from background noise or to prioritize threats by their actual impact on operations. In OT, any delayed or incorrect decision can have direct consequences for operational safety, resilience, and control. Organizations responsible for securing extended operational technology (xOT) environments, including power grids, manufacturing plants, water systems, pipelines, and data centers, need AI that is built on the right intelligence and grounded in operational reality.

The Dragos Intelligence Fabric Foundation

The Dragos Intelligence Fabric is built on over five petabytes of daily OT telemetry, 10-plus years of adversary tracking across named OT threat groups, proprietary OT vulnerability research as a CVE Numbering Authority, asset and protocol research spanning more than 600 OT protocols, and frontline incident response experience from critical infrastructure environments. The Dragos Intelligence Fabric continuously learns as new intelligence surfaces, field insights accumulate, and threat groups adopt new behaviors. This foundation enables EmberAI to operate on a principle that distinguishes it from generic AI: OT specific intelligence applied in context.

Empowering Every Analyst

EmberAI helps analysts across the full range of experience, from IT practitioners and plant engineers operating in OT environments to seasoned OT professionals, to see, understand, and act with the confidence of an OT expert. They can prioritize what matters operationally and act effectively on findings that threaten safe operations. Robert M. Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Dragos, stated, "We built EmberAI to harness Dragos's decade-plus of experience in threat intelligence, incident response, adversary tracking, and frontline operations for OT environments. It is hard to reproduce this depth of OT-specific expertise and build AI that understands and can action OT specific findings."

Key Capabilities of EmberAI

The Intelligence-Driven Query Engine allows analysts to ask questions in plain language and receive precise, OT-contextual answers grounded in the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, eliminating the need to manually pivot across disconnected tools or correlate data from multiple sources. Contextual Correlation Across the Environment connects assets, vulnerabilities, threat intelligence, and network activity into a unified, real-time understanding, ensuring decisions are based on full operational context. Adversary-Informed Guidance maps detections and alerts to known OT threat groups, observed attack patterns, and real behaviors drawn from the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, helping analysts understand not just what is happening but what it means for their environment. Workflow Acceleration and Automation Support reduces hours of manual work from alert triage to incident summaries and reporting, allowing analysts to spend less time gathering data and more time making informed decisions.

Expert-Built OT Skills and Continuous Learning

Dragos analysts are building and validating a rich library of guided, repeatable workflows that encode the same expertise they apply during proactive services, investigations, and incident response. This library will be available soon. As new intelligence and field insights surface, the Dragos Intelligence Fabric evolves and EmberAI becomes more efficient and effective. The analyst remains in control at every step, with every recommendation that EmberAI surfaces being transparent and auditable, enabling defensible workflows.

Security and Governance by Design

Customer data never leaves the customer's environment. EmberAI operates inside the Dragos Platform deployment the organization already controls. These design choices reflect a foundational "human in the loop" principle for OT: the person responsible for protecting an environment must own the final decision. This approach ensures that organizations maintain full control over their sensitive operational data while benefiting from EmberAI's intelligence capabilities. Gartner guidance on AI for cyber-physical system (CPS) security supports this approach, noting, "Favor solutions that use a highly tuned, CPS-specific intelligence engine, instead of risking intellectual property and data sovereignty by feeding sensitive operational telemetry into an opaque, cloud-based global model."

EmberAI as Part of xOT Security Strategy

EmberAI is central to Dragos's xOT security strategy to secure the full extended operational technology environment that influences critical operational processes. As Dragos's xOT integrations expand the Intelligence Fabric with new data sources, EmberAI's intelligence and capabilities will grow with it. 

About Dragos

Dragos provides the most comprehensive OT cybersecurity technology to deliver on its global mission: to safeguard civilization. Built for the extended operational technology environment, or xOT, Dragos technology 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 electric, oil and gas, manufacturing, water, transportation, mining, data centers and government. Privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos operates globally across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

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