Dragos Introduces EmberAI

Dragos today announced the release of EmberAI, an OT-native AI built on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, the world’s largest OT cybersecurity data set. EmberAI gives every analyst immediate access to Dragos OT-specific intelligence gained from over a decade of OT actions, activity and knowledge.

Putting historical and real-time intel in the hands of every security analyst, EmberAI enables teams to gain detailed visibility into assets, vulnerabilities, and network activity across their OT environment. They can prioritize threats by operational impact and act on findings specific to their environment. EmberAI empowers every analyst, regardless of experience, to move from alert to informed action faster, and make defensible decisions grounded in real adversary data.

Threat activity against critical infrastructure is accelerating. Concurrently, the OT cybersecurity skills gap to address these complex tactics and techniques is widening. Existing tools prioritize visibility over understanding, and general-purpose AI lacks the operational context to distinguish a critical exposure from background noise or to prioritize threats by their actual impact on operations. In OT, any delayed or incorrect decision can have direct consequences to operational safety, resilience, and control.

Organizations responsible for securing extended operational technology (xOT) environments, including power grids, manufacturing plants, water systems, pipelines, and data center environments, need AI that is built on the right intelligence and grounded in operational reality. EmberAI empowers analysts across the full range of experience—from IT practitioners and plant engineers operating in OT environments to seasoned OT professionals—to gain the situational visibility and awareness, intelligence and actionality of an OT expert to prioritize what matters operationally, and act effectively on findings that threaten safe operations.

The Dragos Intelligence Fabric is built on over five petabytes of daily OT telemetry, 10-plus years of adversary tracking across named OT threat groups, proprietary OT vulnerability research as a CVE Numbering Authority, asset and protocol research spanning more than 600 OT protocols, and frontline incident response experience from critical infrastructure environments. The Dragos Intelligence Fabric continuously learns as new intelligence surfaces, field insights accumulate, and threat groups adopt new behaviors.

This foundation enables EmberAI to operate on a principle that distinguishes it from generic AI: OT specific intelligence applied in context. EmberAI is central to Dragos’s xOT security strategy—the company’s architecture for securing Extended Operational Technology, the full environment of systems influencing critical operational processes. As xOT integrations expand the Intelligence Fabric with new data sources, EmberAI’s intelligence and capabilities will grow with it.

How It Works

  • Intelligence-Driven Query Engine: Analysts ask questions in plain language and receive precise, OT-contextual answers grounded in the Dragos Intelligence Fabric. This eliminates the need to manually pivot across disconnected tools or correlate data from multiple sources.
  • Contextual Correlation Across the Environment: EmberAI connects assets, vulnerabilities, threat intelligence, and network activity into a unified, real-time understanding. Decisions are based on full operational context, not isolated or irrelevant technical signals.
  • Adversary-Informed Guidance: Detections and alerts are mapped to known OT threat groups, observed attack patterns, and real behaviors drawn from the Dragos Intelligence Fabric. Analysts understand not just what is happening, but what it means for their environment and what to do from a prioritization approach.
  • Workflow Acceleration and Automation Support: From alert triage to incident summaries and reporting, EmberAI reduces hours of friction laden and often error prone manual work. Analysts spend less time gathering data and more time making informed decisions.
  • Expert-Built OT Skills: Dragos analysts are building and validating a rich library of guided, repeatable workflows. Encoding the same expertise they apply during proactive services, investigations, and incident response, this library will be available soon.
  • Continuous Learning Through the Intelligence Fabric: As new intelligence and field insights surface, Dragos Intelligence Fabric evolves—and EmberAI becomes more efficient and effective.
    Design Principles

The analyst remains in control at every step. Every recommendation EmberAI surfaces is transparent and auditable, enabling defensible workflows. Customer data never leaves the customer’s environment. EmberAI operates inside the Dragos Platform deployment the organization already controls. These design choices reflect a foundational “human in the loop” principle about OT: the person responsible for protecting an environment must own the final decision.EmberAI is generally available today inside the Dragos Platform.

More information is available at dragos.com/emberai.

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