Claroty

Claroty was founded in 2015 by Amir Zilberstein, Galina Antova, and Dave Weinstein, focused specifically on securing operational technology (OT), meaning the industrial control systems, sensors, and equipment that run physical processes in environments such as manufacturing plants, power grids, water treatment facilities, and increasingly connected medical devices in hospitals, a category of technology that faces meaningfully different cybersecurity challenges than traditional information technology (IT) systems like corporate laptops and servers, since OT systems often run older, less frequently patched software, cannot always tolerate the kind of active security scanning common in IT environments without risking disruption to physical processes, and, if compromised, can cause physical safety incidents rather than only data breaches. Claroty's platform provides visibility into an organization's OT and industrial control system environment, discovering and inventorying connected industrial devices and systems that are often poorly tracked using traditional IT asset management tools, identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations specific to industrial control system technology, and detecting potentially malicious or anomalous activity within these environments using monitoring techniques designed not to disrupt sensitive physical processes. The company expanded its focus to include healthcare-specific operational technology security, addressing the growing number of network-connected medical devices in hospitals that face similar visibility and security challenges to industrial control systems in manufacturing environments, an area that has grown particularly important given increasing ransomware attacks targeting hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations. Claroty's customers span critical infrastructure sectors including energy, water utilities, manufacturing, and healthcare, industries facing increasing regulatory attention and real-world attack activity targeting operational technology given the potential for cyberattacks in these sectors to cause physical harm or critical service disruption rather than only financial or data loss. The company has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric, reaching unicorn status, competing with other OT security vendors including Dragos and Nozomi Networks.

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