Dragos (ICS) announced y that it had acquired Network Perception (OT) for an undisclosed price.
Network Perception founded in 2014, offers tools for network visibility, auditing and segmentation. Its NP-View platform offers network mapping, real-time updates and compliance features that’s designed to help industries such as utilities, oil and gas, healthcare and financial services safeguard critical infrastructure by simplifying network visualization and reducing attack surfaces.
NP-View proactively assesses, visualizes and monitors network security posture in an offline manner with no risk to operations by taking a non-invasive approach by accessing or uploading configuration files for switches, routers and firewalls. The platform provides a network topology map, analyzes access paths and evaluates firewall rules to simplify complex tasks such as analysing access risk, validating network segmentation and auditing network designs.
The acquisition of Network Perception brings together the capabilities of the Dragos Platform with those of NP-View, giving organizations an understanding of their networks that was previously elusive from a single provider. Merger of two platforms is also planned to deliver dual-layer visibility into OT environments by revealing both real-time connections and potential pathways in a cohesive view.
This integration of NP-View’s topology and firewall rules analysis into the Dragos Platform will allow customers to map their OT environment network topology more effectively. They will also be able to decide where to place Dragos Platform network sensors, map vulnerabilities to attack paths, and evaluate configuration and policy drift.
