Claroty Named a Leader and a Customer Favorite in OT Security by Leading Independent Research Firm
The Claroty Team
/September 1st, 2026/
3 min read
The isolation that once epitomized cybersecurity within operational technology (OT) environments has been steadily rendered ineffective by an integrated web of machine-to-machine communication pathways connecting OT to enterprise networks, cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors and contractors.
Through digital transformation, OT’s legacy characteristics, such as unsupported operating systems and insecure communication protocols, suddenly created a broad attack surface that required a fresh perspective on protecting assets integral to physical processes within manufacturing, energy, utilities, and other critical infrastructure industries.
Claroty has taken steps to meet this new frontier of OT cybersecurity, bolstered by an AI-driven platform that directs contextualized insights, accurate asset identification, and actionable exposure and remediation intelligence to the screens of security analysts worldwide.
Claroty’s innovation was recognized in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026, released today by Forrester Research. Claroty was named a Leader and a Customer Favorite, receiving the highest score in nine evaluation criteria, including: vulnerability management, risk modeling and exposure prioritization, secured access management, reporting, IT/OT convergence support and SOC integration depth, and OT‑safe deployment model and operational resilience in the current offering category, and innovation, adoption, and pricing flexibility and transparency within the strategy category.
Claroty’s technology, engineering, support, and sales teams were also integral in the development and supporting customers throughout critical infrastructure sectors. The Forrester Wave stated the following about Claroty’s strategy and capabilities:
Strategy: “Claroty’s innovative approach to redesign its platform through heavy investments in R&D has evolved its offering from passive monitoring to a security solution for heterogeneous OT environments. To improve adoption, it built industry-focused teams from sales through support that understand customer needs and challenges. Claroty sees value in AI for OT security but is cautious in its use, ensuring that customers can interrupt its actions. It has recently increased the flexibility of its pricing models to meet customers’ evolving needs.”
Capabilities: “Claroty’s vulnerability and risk posture management provides deep context on how vulnerabilities may affect devices or OT operations as a whole, including configuration assessments and benchmarking against similar customers for risk scoring. Its OT-specific secure remote access applies Zero Trust principles with live session monitoring and full audit trails that monitor all actions.”
Customer Feedback: “Customers value Claroty’s close engagement and partnership approach.”
Claroty’s AI-driven cybersecurity platform, and Claire™, the industry’s first OT-native AI security agent, provides users with deep contextualized information built upon the company’s decade in business serving the world’s largest industrial companies. Claire, released in May, provides users with tailored insights, including attack path analysis that identifies exposures posing the greatest risk to uptime and availability, alert insights that include recommendations bolstered by confidence scores, and curated patch information from device manufacturers for every vulnerability.
Claroty’s modern approach to OT’s legacy insecurities serves more than 1,300 organizations in more than 60 countries. We’re proud of this validation of our approach to securing mission-critical infrastructure and that our innovations and support are helping customers programmatically protect the world’s most sensitive environments.
Recognition in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026 continues a year of recognition for our technology and programmatic approach to security. Claroty was also just named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for CPS Protection Platforms, and earlier this year, was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Programs for the second consecutive year.
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