Partnership gives critical infrastructure operators OT/ICS cybersecurity across both legacy serial/analog systems and modern IP-based industrial networks.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, CA, UNITED STATES, September 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Cynalytica, Inc and Dragos Public Sector Partner to Deliver Full-Spectrum OT Security for Water, Electric, and Government Infrastructure
Partnership gives critical infrastructure operators OT/ICS cybersecurity across both legacy serial/analog systems and modern IP-based industrial networks, from the physical layer up through the enterprise.
Cynalytica Inc. today announced a partnership with Dragos Public Sector, integrating Cynalytica’s OTNetGuard®, SerialGuard®, and AnalytICS Engine platforms with the Dragos Platform. The integration gives water utilities, electric operators, and government agencies a single, unified view of security and operations across their industrial environment, from the field devices that physically control pumps, breakers, and valves to the IP networks that connect them.
The Business Challenge
Critical infrastructure runs on two layers of technology. Modern IP-based networks handle much of the data traffic across an operational environment equipment that operates pumps, breakers, relays, and valves, much of it decades old, communicates over legacy serial and analog connections that never touch an IP network at all.
Many water utilities, electric distribution and transmission operators, and other critical infrastructure owners who have achieved visibility of IP-connected assets want to extend insight into the legacy field equipment that keeps physical operations running. This partnership combines Dragos’s xOT cybersecurity platform with Cynalytica’s specialized monitoring of serial and analog communications.
What the Partnership Delivers
By integrating platforms, Cynalytica and Dragos give operators:
• One unified asset inventory across every device on-site, whether it communicates over serial, analog, or IP
• Correlated threat detection that connects activity at the field-device level with activity on the IP network, revealing coordinated attacks that would otherwise appear as unrelated, isolated events
• No disruption to operations — Dragos’s multi-detection engine uses both passive and smart active querying fully configurable by the administrator, while Cynalytica monitors passively, and together they require no changes to control systems, no new network paths, and no risk introduced to live processes
• Faster, more confident response through Dragos’s playbook-driven detection and response capabilities, now informed by data from the field layer as well as the network layer
• Stronger compliance posture for utilities and agencies subject to NERC CIP, AWWA, and other sector-specific regulatory frameworks
Why It Matters for Operators
Water and electric utilities face growing pressure to demonstrate comprehensive protection of their infrastructure, often with lean security teams and equipment that spans multiple generations of technology. This partnership allows those teams to work from one consolidated picture of their environment instead of stitching together insights from separate, disconnected systems, reducing complexity while extending protection to assets that previously had little to no monitoring at all.
Executive Perspective
“Utilities and government agencies have told us for years that they need one place to look, not five,” said Richard Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Cynalytica. “Dragos has set the standard for OT threat detection on the network side. By bringing our field-level visibility into that picture, operators get a complete, correlated view of their environment. from the control room down to the equipment on the ground.”
“Government agencies and critical infrastructure operators often run environments where decades-old serial and analog field communications sit alongside modern IP networks. For those operators, this integration brings that field-level layer into the same monitoring environment as the IP infrastructure Dragos already protects,” said Dan Dorchinsky, General Manager of Dragos Public Sector LLC. “That gives the public sector customers Dragos serves a continuous, correlated view across their full operational environment from a single platform.”
Availability
The integrated Cynalytica–Dragos solution is available now for deployment by water utilities, electric operators, and government critical infrastructure customers.
About Cynalytica Inc.
Cynalytica Inc. delivers cybersecurity and operational intelligence solutions purpose-built for legacy and modern ICS/SCADA environments, providing visibility into serial, analog, and IP industrial communications to protect critical infrastructure.
About Dragos Public Sector LLC
Dragos Public Sector LLC is a subsidiary of Dragos Inc., the global technology leader in cybersecurity for extended operational technology (xOT) environments, dedicated to safeguarding civilization from those seeking to disrupt the industrial infrastructure that people rely on every hour of every day.
Media Contact: Jessica Ohnona · Cynalytica Inc.
Jessica Ohnona
Cynalytica Inc.
jessica@cynalytica.com
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