Claroty and Frenos partner to reduce OT downtime risk

Claroty has announced a partnership with Frenos, a developer of AI-native simulated OT penetration testing, to deliver an integrated solution to industrial organisations that aims to reduce downtime risk in CPS environments.

Organisations using the Claroty Platform can now leverage the Frenos penetration testing platform to continuously validate their defensive posture against real-world adversarial behaviours, measure actual exploitability of detected vulnerabilities, and prioritise remediation based on demonstrated risk.

The companies say the key benefits of the Claroty and Frenos joint solution include:

• Threat-informed vulnerability prioritisation: Frenos ingests Claroty’s asset intelligence to build environment-specific digital twins and the Frenos AI adversary agent, SAIRA, analyses which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable and then provides specific remediation options.
• Continuous validation of segmentation and firewall policy effectiveness: Claroty provides the necessary visibility into network communications and device connections, which Frenos uses to model and simulate attacks.
• Threat actor emulation and exposure assessment: Claroty provides the detection layer and environmental context, while Frenos replicates the attack sequence to determine if a threat can lead to production disruption.
   

“Asset intelligence is the bedrock of every organisation’s CPS risk management program,” said Grant Geyer, Chief Strategy Officer at Claroty. “By gaining full visibility into the industrial environment with the ability to stress test their exposures, organisations that leverage Claroty and Frenos are in the best position to protect against operational downtime and to reduce overall risk.”

“Knowing your assets is the starting point; knowing which exposures an adversary can actually exploit is what drives action,” said Brian Proctor, CEO of Frenos. “By building environment-specific digital twins from Claroty’s asset intelligence, our AI adversary agent shows teams exactly which vulnerabilities are reachable, what an attacker could do with them, and where to remediate first.”

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