Dragos Launches Community Defense Program to Help Secure Industrial Infrastructure for Small Utilities
Summary: Dragos announced the Community Defense Program on December 6, 2023, offering free OT cybersecurity software, including the Dragos Platform and Neighborhood Keeper, to small water, electric, and natural gas providers in the United States with under $100M in annual revenue. The program began as a 2022 trial tied to threats from the invasion of Ukraine, runs on Elasticsearch for log storage, and is supported by Dragos OT-CERT, which has over 1,500 members in 60 countries.
Why it matters: Small utilities serving most of the population have been, in CEO Robert M. Lee's words, over-strained and under-resourced while global threat actors and ransomware groups target critical infrastructure, and the revenue cutoff of $100M defines exactly which providers are expected to defend industrial systems without the budgets governments and large providers have.
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