“ WHEN THERE IS ANY KIND OF ATTACK , PROCESSES CAN GRIND TO A HALT . IN THIS RESPECT , INDUSTRIAL SECURITY IS CRITICAL ”
SIMON CHASSAR CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER , CLAROTY
platform is fully compatible with both greenfield IoT and IIoT environments and traditional brownfield OT environments . Developing and expanding support for the various protocols utilized within these environments requires close collaboration and a strong relationship with the industrial vendors — including those that are Claroty investors and partners .
“ We have always been a technology company rather than a services-based one . Because of that we have also built very strong technical integrations with our IT security partners . These are the same companies that have control of the firewalls and other technologies that our customers already rely on . Not only does this enable us to work in harmony , we can also plug and play directly into these environments . That creates opportunities for our customers to easily integrate our platform with their existing tech stack ,” he states .
Chassar says the company has three partner categories which have different values but are equally important . The first , he says , is the service partners that are driving enterprise transformation and include the likes of Deloitte , KPMG , NTT , and Kudelski Security . The second is ICS / automation vendors including Siemens , Schneider Electric , Yokogawa , and Rockwell . And then there are strategic
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