Frost & Sullivan: Kaspersky Recognized for Leadership in Asia-Pacific OT Cybersecurity and Converged IT/OT Security

Kaspersky's purpose-built OT security and unified IT/OT approach demonstrates strong customer value, product innovation, and operational resilience across critical industrial environments. Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that Kaspersky has received the 2026 Asia-Pacific OT Security Customer Value Leadership Recognition and the 2026 Asia-Pacific Converged IT and OT Security Product Leadership Recognition for its strong performance in delivering customer value and advancing converged cybersecurity across mission-critical industrial environments. These recognitions highlight Kaspersky's ability to align its cybersecurity strategy with the evolving needs of industrial organizations while executing through a unified, OT-native approach. In a market shaped by rapid digitalization, legacy infrastructure, expanding cyber-physical attack surfaces, and the convergence of IT and OT, Kaspersky demonstrates a differentiated ability to strengthen protection without compromising operational continuity. Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Kaspersky excelled across these dimensions through its combination of purpose-built industrial cybersecurity, localized execution, partner-led delivery, and a platform strategy designed to support organizations from foundational OT protection to broader IT/OT convergence. Kaspersky demonstrates customer ownership excellence through a platform strategy built around completeness rather than isolated point capabilities. A unified approach is central to this value proposition, integrating endpoint protection, anomaly detection, secure remote access, asset visibility, and centralized management. This coherent operational model is especially valuable in industrial environments where low asset awareness and disconnected tools can slow response times, reduce efficiency, and leave security teams with an incomplete view of risks. Kaspersky's strategy focuses on the realities of industrial and critical infrastructure environments, where security solutions must accommodate legacy systems, heterogeneous architecture, and stringent uptime requirements. Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS) combines endpoint protection, OT network monitoring, anomaly detection, and asset visibility, while its broader IT security portfolio extends this approach across enterprise environments. The Open Single Management Platform enables centralized oversight and cross-domain threat correlation. Innovation also remains central to Kaspersky's product strategy. Its solutions are designed with a limited system footprint and support for legacy operating systems, proprietary industrial protocols, air-gapped environments, and passive monitoring. AI-driven capabilities, behavioral analytics, automated alert summarization, and the Kaspersky Investigation and Response Assistant enhance security operations by helping analysts accelerate investigation and decision-making. APAC is where the world's industrial future is being built, and it is also where the diversity of cybersecurity maturity is greatest: Advanced manufacturers and first-time OT security adopters often operate in the same supply chain. Kaspersky's role in this region has been to make enterprise-grade industrial protection genuinely accessible across that entire spectrum through local teams, a certified partner ecosystem, and an adoption model that lets organizations start with visibility and scale to full protection at their own pace. Frost & Sullivan's recognition reflects the trust we have earned plant by plant, market by market, across APAC. Kaspersky's customer value proposition is strengthened by its focus on non-disruptive protection and operational continuity. Capabilities such as zero-reboot updates, precision alerting, por.