Dragos, Inc., provider of the industrial industry’s most trusted asset identification, threat detection and response platform and services, announces the acquisition of Atlanta-based NexDefense, a provider of industrial controls system (ICS) visibility technology. As part of this announcement, the company also introduces Dragos Community Tools, a set of free assessment tools to help organisations of all sizes around the globe forge the path forward towards comprehensive ICS security.
NexDefense further developed and sold Integrity, a tool originally funded by the United States Department of Energy and developed as ‘Sophia’ at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). NexDefense was one of the earliest and most well-known ICS security companies in the space.