Dragos
Access to the Dragos Platform
See what is on your network and how to address vulnerabilities and threats.
Water / Electric / Natural Gas
Defend the infrastructure civilization runs on.
Free OT cybersecurity for under-resourced U.S. and Canadian water, electric, and natural gas utilities. Launched by Accenture, Dragos, and the SANS Institute, the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation delivers the software, hardware, deployment, and training that small utilities need to defend the systems communities depend on — at no cost.
Our mission
Small utilities are on the front line.
Attacks on operational technology are rising, with a recent wave targeting more than 100 U.S. water systems across over a dozen states. The utilities in the line of fire are often small — tens of thousands of them run on limited budgets, short staff, and aging equipment, leaving the pumps, valves, substations, and distribution networks that communities depend on exposed. The Community Cyber Resilience Foundation exists to close that gap: to put OT security in the hands of the utilities that keep water, power, and heat flowing, before a breach becomes a public-safety event.
The program
Technology, deployment, and training — free to utilities that qualify.
In its first phase, the foundation provides cybersecurity software, hardware, deployment services, and training at no cost to up to 500 under-resourced utilities. It builds on the Dragos Community Defense Program, which already gives more than 100 utilities free access to the Dragos Platform.
Accenture
Deployment & enablement
Expert configuration, integration, and ongoing support, so the Platform is set up correctly and keeps protecting your environment.
SANS Institute
Training & certification
OnDemand training from cybersecurity foundations through ICS/OT, with a GIAC certification. The best technology only protects a utility if its people can use it.
Also included
Hardware funding
Funding for the equipment to run the Platform for utilities that need it.
Dragos
Community defense & peer support
Plug into Neighborhood Keeper. Anonymized insights are shared across the community, so a threat seen at one utility can surface at others before it strikes. Plus access to Dragos OT-CERT and a network of utilities sharing operational experience.
How it works
Sign up with us. We take it from there.
1
You sign up through the foundation
Tell us about your utility and where to reach you. One neutral front door.
2
We match you to the program
We confirm eligibility and bring qualifying utilities into the program built on the Dragos Community Defense Program.
3
You get deployed and trained
Dragos provides the Platform, Accenture deploys it, and SANS trains your team. The foundation funds the hardware to run it.
Enrollment opens soon. Join the list and we will tell you when it does.
From a member
What the program changed for a three-person water team.
The City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska keeps water and wastewater running for a capital city, a major military presence, and 1.7 million cruise passengers a year — with a team of three. They joined the original Dragos Community Defense Program. Here is what changed.
a game-changer for our day-to-day operations
Chad Gubala · Production & Treatment ManagerCity and Borough of Juneau, Alaska
After deploying the Dragos Platform, uptime on critical systems rose from about 85% to roughly 99.99%, and a team of three gained a real map of some 50 remote nodes they had never fully seen.
Get involved
There is a role for you in the defense.
Whether you operate a qualifying utility, contribute OT expertise, or can help fund the mission, you can strengthen the collective defense of essential community services.
Check your eligibility.
Qualifying electric, water, and natural gas utilities receive monitoring software and the hardware it runs on, installed and configured for them, plus guides, training, exercises, and expert help. All of it free, and none of it a trial.
Contribute time and knowledge.
Support working groups, research, education, mentorship, or incident readiness initiatives.
Fund and amplify the mission.
Partner with us to expand access, accelerate programs, and reach underserved organizations.
Ask your utility.
You do not need to work in cybersecurity to help. Ask your utility whether it knows about free OT security support, and point it here. Local voices reach small utilities faster than we can.
Resources / learn more
Practical help, built to be used.
Programs are designed to help smaller utility teams build readiness, learn from peers, and act with confidence when threats emerge.
PrepareConnect Respond
OT-CERT resources
Practical guides, toolkits, and training for utility defenders, from the Dragos OT-CERT community.
TrainSANS training & certification
Build in-house skills with SANS OnDemand courses and a GIAC certification — cybersecurity foundations through ICS/OT — from the institute whose team wrote the Five Critical Controls for ICS/OT.
Utility peer forum
A trusted space to learn from peers facing similar operational realities.
Threat intelligence & experts
Timely OT intelligence and expert resources when action matters.
Stay connected
Help safeguard what the world cannot do without.
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Who’s involved
The Community Cyber Resilience Foundation was launched by Accenture, Dragos, and the SANS Institute, with technology support from Elastic — together committing roughly $10 million in initial funding and services. It exists for the utilities it serves.
Under-resourced U.S. and Canadian water, wastewater, electric, and natural gas operators.
Funding, cybersecurity deployment, and program leadership.
The Dragos Platform and the Community Defense Program it builds on.
Cybersecurity and ICS/OT training, with GIAC certification, to build in-house skills.
Technology support from Elastic helps deliver the Dragos Platform at scale, free of charge.