The Dragos Community Defense Program Helps Secure Industrial Infrastructure for Small Utilities
Summary: Dragos expanded its Community Defense Program, launched as a pilot in 2022, to give more small US water, gas, and electric utilities free Dragos Platform software and enrollment in its Neighborhood Keeper collective defense capability for as long as they meet program criteria. The program targets US-based utility providers with under $100M in annual revenue, and Dragos also cites its OT-CERT program, which has over 1,500 members in 60 countries, as separate free support for under-resourced organizations.
What's compelling: Small utilities serving the majority of people often cannot buy foundational OT security tools, partly because public utility commissions assess whether cybersecurity costs are allowable for recovery - so free, continuous access to detection software is the difference between having a program and having none against actors targeting critical infrastructure.
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