New Dragos AI assistant EmberAI targets the OT security skills gap
Industrial control system cybersecurity company Dragos Inc. today launched EmberAI, an artificial intelligence assistant built specifically for operational technology environments that aims to put the company’s threat intelligence in the hands of analysts at any experience level.
EmberAI runs on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, which the company calls the world’s largest OT cybersecurity data set built from more than a decade of adversary tracking and incident response work. Analysts can query their assets, vulnerabilities and network activity in plain language and rank threats by operational impact.
Dragos is selling the tool into a staffing squeeze. Attacks on critical infrastructure keep climbing and there are not enough OT security specialists to work on them. The company’s argument is that general-purpose AI cannot tell a critical exposure from routine noise because it does not understand the plant and in OT a bad call can hit safety and physical systems, not just data.
The company positions EmberAI for the full range of people now working in OT security, from information technology practitioners and plant engineers to veteran OT specialists. Organizations securing power grids, manufacturing plants, water systems, pipelines and data centers are the target market.
