Ordr recognized in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for CPS protection platforms

August 11, 2023

Connected device security company Ordr announced Thursday that it was named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) protection platforms. The report emphasizes the need for an asset-centric approach to protecting CPS in mission-critical environments.

The Gartner Market Guide identified that the CPS protection platforms market is growing, as adoption accelerates due to increased threats, existing and new vendors position more aggressively in the market, and new entrants target underserved vertical industries. Once focused mainly on passive deep packet inspection, most vendors now seek differentiation and richer inventories with a variety of additional techniques, including native protocol active queries.

The guide also said that they also rapidly deploy additional functionalities such as vulnerability management, threat intelligence, visualizations, alerts, playbooks or feeds into other IT security (and inventory) tools, creating a new asset-centric security discipline for CPS security.

Ordr delivers a purpose-built platform to discover and secure every connected asset, including traditional IT, IoT, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), OT (operational technology), and CPS. The platform grants visibility into the make, model, serial number, location, and application/port usage of each device, establishing an accurate view of the attack surface, highlighting vulnerabilities, end-of-support, recalls, and weak passwords. Risk scores are calculated to help teams prioritize remediation and mitigation, and security policies for zero trust segmentation or threat response are established.

“As threats multiply, a once generic operational technology security market is rapidly evolving into distinct categories,” Katell Thielemann, distinguished VP analyst, and Wam Voster, VP analyst at Gartner, said in a media statement. “Cyber-physical systems protection platforms that discover and protect assets in production or mission-critical environments are emerging as a leading market category.”

“Due to their very nature, cyber-physical systems in industries such as manufacturing, smart cities and healthcare are increasingly targeted by attackers,” according to Jim Hyman, CEO of Ordr. “We’re seeing organizations embrace an asset-centric approach to cybersecurity, to address the complexity and variety of old and new assets. Ordr differentiates not only via the depth of our asset and attack surface visibility capabilities, but more importantly – for our ability to secure every asset via automated policies including Zero Trust segmentation.”

Last June, Ordr secured an additional US$40 million to meet the growing need for organizations to understand, manage, and secure the growing number of connected devices in their environment, including the IoMT, IoT and OT. The company also addresses two key enterprise initiatives of digital transformation and zero trust, typically associated with a growing reliance on and adoption of connected devices. With this funding, Ordr has raised more than $90 million to date.