Opswat and Emerson deepen critical infrastructure cybersecurity partnership with OT patch management integration

Opswat and Emerson expand their collaboration with a global reseller agreement, embedding OT patch management into Emerson’s Ovation Automation Platform to enhance protection for power and water operators amidst rising cyber threats.

OPSWAT and Emerson have expanded their long-running cybersecurity partnership with a global reseller agreement aimed at power and water operators, as the two companies move to embed OT patch management more deeply into Emerson’s Ovation Automation Platform. According to the announcement, the first phase will bring OPSWAT’s MetaDefender Endpoint and My OPSWAT Central Management On-Premises into Emerson’s cybersecurity suite for critical infrastructure customers worldwide. Reuters-style reporting from Nasdaq, PR Newswire and Industrial Cyber all described the arrangement as a push to strengthen protection for industrial operators facing mounting vulnerability exposure.

The companies are pitching the deal as a response to a threat environment in which utilities and other essential services are contending with ransomware, nation-state activity and the operational risks created by delayed patching. Emerson said its customers need security tools built specifically for operational technology rather than adapted from IT, while OPSWAT argued that resilience in power and water systems depends on deterministic, OT-specific controls that do not disrupt availability or safety. The platform is already used at more than 800 sites, according to the material supplied by the companies, giving the partnership a substantial installed base on which to build.

The agreement also extends an existing relationship between the two firms. Emerson and OPSWAT previously worked together under the DeltaV Alliance, which brought OPSWAT’s MetaDefender Kiosk and MetaDefender Unidirectional Security Gateway to Emerson’s DeltaV Automation Platform. In this latest step, Emerson is signalling a broader strategy of pairing with specialist cybersecurity vendors as regulators tighten expectations and operators face a more relentless stream of newly discovered vulnerabilities.

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Source: Fuse Wire Services