Foxborough, MA and Toulouse, France — Industrial Defender, a global leader in OT asset visibility and risk management, today announced a strategic partnership with KYrON, a cybersecurity integration firm specializing in industrial environments, to help organizations across France strengthen cyber resilience and prepare for evolving regulatory requirements, including NIS2.
Industrial organizations are facing a growing challenge: understanding whether their operational risk is truly controlled, documented, and defensible.
Increasing cyber threats, aging infrastructure, and regulatory pressure are forcing organizations to move beyond periodic assessments toward continuous visibility and risk management.
"Our partnership with KYrON helps customers move from uncertainty to confidence. Together, we enable industrial operators to strengthen resilience, accelerate regulatory readiness, and make cybersecurity decisions grounded in operational reality,” said Alex Bagwell, Chief Revenue Officer, Industrial Defender.
“This partnership means greater trust in critical infrastructure and greater confidence in the systems that communities depend on every day."
Through this partnership, Industrial Defender and KYrON deliver a combined approach focused on continuous asset intelligence, governance, and operational resilience for critical infrastructure environments.
Industrial Defender brings two decades of experience delivering OT asset management, configuration monitoring, and vulnerability visibility across complex industrial environments.
The Industrial Defender platform provides continuous deep OT asset inventory, configurations, vulnerabilities, and changes — providing organizations with a single source of organizational truth without operational interruption.
KYrON complements this capability with deep industrial cybersecurity expertise and the operational judgment to turn continuous visibility into defensible decisions.
Since 2003, KYrON has served as a trusted partner across sensitive industrial sectors, bridging IT, OT, and operational leadership. Their services include governance and risk consulting, secure architecture design, non-intrusive deployment, and awareness programs designed to build long-term resilience and organizational autonomy.
“Industrial operators today don't lack data, they lack the governance to act on it with confidence,” said Hakim Bendib, Co-Founder and CEO, KYrON.
“What this partnership delivers is exactly that: Industrial Defender's continuous OT asset intelligence combined with Kyron’s 23 years of IEC 62443 expertise across the most demanding industrial environments in France and Europe turns visibility into decisions any organization can defend before regulators, insurers, and the board.”
Controlled, documented, and defensible, that is the standard every critical infrastructure operator can now meet.”
Together, the partnership enables industrial organizations to improve visibility across OT environments, strengthen compliance readiness, and reduce operational cybersecurity risk.
Both organizations share a foundational belief that industrial environments require specialized approaches, shaped by unique operational constraints
Effective cybersecurity requires cooperation, continuous visibility, and governance tailored specifically for industrial operations.
The partnership also supports French organizations preparing for NIS2 cybersecurity initiatives by providing continuous documentation, risk monitoring, and defensible security posture across industrial infrastructure.
By combining Industrial Defender’s technology platform with KYrON’s regional expertise, the partnership delivers a scalable and non-intrusive cybersecurity approach designed for critical infrastructure environments.
Together, Industrial Defender and KYrON aim to strengthen industrial trust, improve resilience, and help organizations across France confidently manage cybersecurity risk.
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