360Quadrants powered by MarketsandMarkets™, the world’s only comparison platform that combines expert analysis with crowdsourced insights has released a quadrant on Industrial Control Systems Security Solutions to help businesses make quicker and more informed decisions. The first release of the quadrant has Kaspersky Lab, Schneider Electric, and Symantec sharing space as Innovators. 360Quadrants are generated post analysis of companies (product portfolios and business strategy). Quadrants will be updated every three months, and the position of vendors will reflect how buyers, industry experts, and other vendors rate them on different parameters

Industrial Control Systems Security Solutions Quadrant Highlights

360Quadrants states, Industrial Control Systems Security (ICS security) as the ability of organizations to secure their automation processes and related critical information from cyber intrusions for uninterrupted and sustained productivity of utilities, grids, transportation systems, and manufacturing plants. 360Quadrants covers 100+ companies in the Industrial Control Systems Security (ICS security) space and places the top 50 of them in a quadrant depending on their quality, reliability, and business outcome. These 50 companies are categorized into Visionary Leaders, Dynamic Differentiators, Emerging Companies, and Innovators.
360Quadrants recognizes ABB, Belden, Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, Fortinet, GE, Honeywell, McAfee, and Siemens as Visionary Leaders; Kaspersky Lab, Bayshore Networks, Indegy, Nozomi Networks, Schneider Electric, and Symantec as Innovators; FireEye, IBM, Raytheon, Rockwell Automation, and Trend Micro as Dynamic Differentiators; and BAE Systems, Carbon Black, CyberArk, Claroty, and SecurityMatters as Emerging Players. The 360Quadrants platform provides the most granular Industrial Control Systems Security (ICS security) between vendors.

Methodology

The methodology used to rank Industrial Control Systems Security (ICS security) involved the use of extensive secondary research to identify key vendors by referring to annual reports, press releases, investor presentations, white papers, and various related directories and databases. 34 key vendors were shortlisted on the basis of their breadth of product offerings, organization size, and other criteria. The scores and weights for shortlisted vendors against each parameter were finalized post research. After the ratings were finalized, each vendor was placed in respective quadrants based on their score in the product offering and business strategy parameters.

About Industrial Control Systems Security (ICS security)

Industrial Control Systems encompass different types of control systems that are employed in industry operations. From a central control room, critical industrial infrastructures are remotely managed through the use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and Distributed Control System (DCS). Today, ensuring the security of these systems is a major concern, especially due to advanced persistent threats such as Havex RAT and Stuxnet. These threats are highly sophisticated and severe in nature, giving different security solution providers an incentive to customize their offerings as per industry demands. Major sectors making use of ICS security include the energy & utilities, power, manufacturing, and transportation & logistics industries. Through the use of ICS security, electricity and power companies are able to meet challenges arising from aging grid infrastructure, ensure that the balance between power generation and production is maintained, monitor operations of the power system, and provide a swift, efficient way to restore services after any interruptions. Providing cybersecurity for manufacturing and control systems means providing security against physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take place on computer systems as well as their support systems.