Westlands Advisory recognizes TXOne Networks for its IT/OT network protection platform

August 17, 2023

Industrial cybersecurity company TXOne Networks announced Wednesday that its solution was rated highest by Westlands Advisory for ‘strategic direction’ among the IT/OT network protection platforms evaluated by the OT (operational technology) security industry analysis and strategy firm for its latest market-research report. The recognition singles out the company’s cyber-physical system detection and response (CPSDR) for novel approach to safeguarding operational stability.

CPSDR is TXOne Networks’ unique approach to security by which baseline fingerprints of each OT device and cyber-physical system in an organization’s infrastructure is analyzed to reveal behavior that threatens reliable and stable operations. Unexpected system changes are prevented, and alerts are generated to complete wider analysis. In this way, the TXOne solution goes beyond combatting known threats to address unwanted system events before the organization’s operations can be impacted.

“TXOne has a strong product roadmap with a number of significant releases planned over the next 12 months,” reads Westlands Advisory’s ‘Industrial Cybersecurity Outlook 2023-2030’ report. “The most recent release is the new primary capability, Cyber-Physical System Detection & Response. CPSDR provides engineering and security teams with increased visibility of cybersecurity and operational threats. The security component is based on centralized behavioral analytics and threat-based correlation, whilst operational risk is managed by agent-based behavioral analysis and device ‘fingerprinting’ to detect changes to operational baselines.”

The Westland report documents a clear trend of continuous expenditure increase on OT cybersecurity, driven by digital transformation, regulation and risk management.

The report identifies that the TxOne product portfolio includes three distinct offerings for network protection. It delivers security inspection which is a set of portable products for malware scanning, and endpoint protection through Stellar, an on-premise, agent based solution managed through a centralized management console. Its use cases include AV, asset visibility, industrial application control and patch management.

It also delivers network defense which includes EdgeIPS and EdgeFire OT security appliances. Its use cases include network visibility, segmentation and virtual patching. EdgeFire 2.0, released in May this year, includes VPN support and increased protocol analysis and control.

“After years of dedicated work in the field of OT cybersecurity, we appreciate the recognition in Westlands Advisory’s report as a verified innovator for IT/OT Network Protection Platforms,” Terence Liu, chief executive officer, TXOne Networks, said in a media statement. “The Westlands Advisory analysis underscores our experience through encounters in the marketplace—that organizations across the gamut of industries are placing greater emphasis on equipping technicians to centrally manage cyber defense across a vast number of legacy and modern assets running side-by-side without interrupting operations.”

Liu added that TXone’s solutions have been engineered from the ground up to deliver various capabilities in device inspection, endpoint protection and network defense to secure an organization’s OT workforce, workload and workplace.