Accenture’s Dragos investment marks new phase for OT cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
Accenture’s Dragos investment marks new phase for OT cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
Publish Date: 2026-06-19 02:56:00
Source Domain: industrialcyber.co
Accenture announced on Thursday that it is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos at a $3.25 billion valuation, along with full acquisitions of runZero and NetRise, bringing the combined enterprise value to $4.175 billion and creating the highest-valued OT (operational technology) cybersecurity business to date. The deal comes as Accenture’s cybersecurity business continues to post double-digit growth amid escalating AI-driven threats and geopolitical tensions. The company said the acquisitions strengthen its ability to meet rising demand for more proactive, integrated cyber defenses, particularly across critical infrastructure and industrial operations, while accelerating adoption of advanced security capabilities.
On the strategic gap Dragos fills in Accenture’s cybersecurity portfolio, and why now was the right time to deepen its OT security capabilities, Luis Luque, Accenture’s global cyber-physical security lead, told Industrial Cyber that Accenture already has a large global OT cybersecurity business and deep consulting relationships with critical infrastructure operators.
“But our investment and partnership with Dragos brings a specialized, vendor-neutral OT threat detection platform, proprietary industrial threat intelligence and the practitioner expertise needed to protect environments where cyber risk can directly affect physical operations,” Luque pointed out. “By combining all of this with runZero’s exposure assessment capabilities and NetRise’s firmware and software supply chain visibility, which will help create a complete end-to-end platform for the expanding ‘xOT’ environment, where industrial control systems, IoT, sensors, cloud-connected devices and related IT infrastructure are increasingly interconnected.”
Focusing on whether Accenture’s majority investment in Dragos represents a turning point for OT security across critical infrastructure, Luque said the move underscores a broader market shift, with…
