Report:
Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms
How does Gartner define the CPS Protection Platforms market in 2025?
Gartner defines the cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection platforms market as products that use knowledge of industrial protocols, operational/production network packets or traffic metadata, and physical process asset behavior to discover, categorize, map and protect CPS in production or mission-critical environments outside of enterprise IT environments. CPS protection platforms can be delivered from the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid form. Gartner defines CPS as engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world (including humans). When secure, they enable safe, real-time, reliable, resilient and adaptable performance.
Key Facts for Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms in 2025
- Publication Date: 12 February 2025
- Document ID: G00808225
- Coverage: Global
- Authors: Katell Thielemann, Wam Voster, and 1 more
- Core Purpose: This research helps cybersecurity leaders find the right vendor to facilitate protection of CPS using CPS protection platforms. It evaluates vendors that discover and protect assets in production or mission-critical environments.
Strategic Planning Assumptions
- By 2027, 75% of CPS-intensive organizations will obtain cybersecurity capabilities from a cyber-physical systems protection platform (CPS PP), accelerating the shift from point solutions
- By 2027, 45% of organizations will prioritize remediation capabilities as a selection criterion for CPS PPs, prioritizing 'doing' over 'knowing'
How was the CPS Protection Platforms market evolved in 2025?
- CPS protection platforms use knowledge of industrial protocols, operational/production network packets or traffic metadata, and physical process asset behavior to discover, categorize, map and protect CPS
- Platforms can be delivered from the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid form
- The market exists because the attack surface is growing, threats are on the rise, more vulnerabilities are surfacing, and more regulations and frameworks are emerging
- Security for connected assets has evolved from 'out of sight, out of mind' to an asset-centric security discipline
- Organizations are asking questions like 'What CPS do I have?', 'How do they connect?', and 'What is their risk profile?'
- Manual asset inventories are time inefficient and costly, and IT security tools are inappropriate for many CPS environments
- The market includes vendors offering discovery, visibility, threat detection, vulnerability management, risk scoring, and integration with IT security tools
- This is a nascent market poised for rapid growth as cyberthreat actors increasingly target organizations in industries and critical infrastructure environments
What product features are required to be included in this year's evaluation?
- Vendor-native asset discovery, visibility and categorization
- Support for both modern and unique industrial protocols while not interfering with the operation of any device
- Detailed network topology and data flow diagrams
- Detailed pedigree of assets, including nested devices
- Vulnerability information and recommended actions
- Threat intelligence information and recommended actions
- Integration with IT security tools
- Risk scoring and recommended actions
What are the common features of top products in the CPS Protection Platforms space?
- Baseline and configuration management
- Incident response and forensics
- Network-segmentation-related features and functionalities
- Security frameworks compliance reports
- Various role-based user interfaces
Scope Exclusions
- Providers not actively participating in the enterprise market
- Solutions requiring purchase of other products (not pure-play)
- Platforms not meeting Gartner's CPS protection platform market definition
- Solutions not generally available as of 15 September 2024
- Providers with fewer than 100 unique enterprise customers with production deployments
- Providers not offering cloud-based/managed, hybrid and on-premises options
- Providers with customers in fewer than eight of 22 industry categories
- Providers receiving revenue from fewer than three geographic regions
- Providers not meeting minimum revenue thresholds or growth indicators
Inclusion Criteria
Vendors must, among other requirements:
- Provider must be actively participating in the enterprise market as evidenced by actively investing in product capabilities and directly marketing to enterprise customers
- Provider must demonstrate active participation in the CPS protection platform market as a pure-play provider without requiring the purchase of other products
- Providers must meet Gartner's definition for the CPS protection platform market
- The CPS Protection Platform must be generally available (GA) as of 15 September 2024
- At least 100 unique enterprise customers have purchased and deployed the provider's CPS protection platform in a production environment
- Provider must offer cloud-based or managed, hybrid and on-premises deployment options
- Paying customers in at least eight of 22 industry categories
- Provider receives revenue from at least three geographic regions
- At least $50 million in revenue in 2023; or $5 million in revenue in 2023 with growth trajectory; or ranks among Top 22 for Customer Interest Indicator
Ability to Execute — Relative Weighting
- Product or Service - High
- Overall Viability - High
- Sales Execution/Pricing - High
- Market Responsiveness/Record - High
- Marketing Execution - High
- Customer Experience - High
- Operations - High
Completeness of Vision — Relative Weighting
- Market Understanding - High
- Marketing Strategy - High
- Sales Strategy - High
- Offering (Product) Strategy - High
- Business Model - Medium
- Vertical/Industry Strategy - High
- Innovation - High
- Geographic Strategy - High
FAQs
Q: What does this research cover?
A: This research covers cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection platforms that discover and protect assets in production or mission-critical environments outside of enterprise IT environments. It evaluates vendors on their ability to provide asset discovery, visibility, categorization, mapping, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, risk scoring, and integration capabilities. The research includes vendor positions in the Magic Quadrant (Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, Niche Players), their strengths and cautions, market definitions, evaluation criteria, and market trends.
Q: Who should use this research?
A: This research should be used by cybersecurity leaders and security professionals in organizations with cyber-physical systems who need to select a CPS protection platform vendor. It is particularly relevant for organizations in critical infrastructure, manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, building management, transportation, warehousing, and other asset-intensive industries. The research helps users understand vendor capabilities, market positioning, and selection criteria to facilitate protection of CPS environments.
Q: What are the mandatory features of vendors included in this market?
A: Mandatory features for vendors in this market include: vendor-native asset discovery, visibility and categorization; support for both modern and unique industrial protocols without interfering with device operations; detailed network topology and data flow diagrams; detailed asset pedigree including nested devices; vulnerability information with recommended actions; threat intelligence information with recommended actions; integration with IT security tools; and risk scoring with recommended actions.
Q: What are some reasons for not being included in this report?
A:
- Not actively participating in the enterprise market with direct marketing and product investment
- Requiring purchase of additional products rather than offering pure-play CPS protection platform
- Not meeting Gartner's definition of CPS protection platforms
- Product not generally available as of 15 September 2024
- Fewer than 100 unique enterprise customers with production deployments
- Not offering all three deployment models (cloud/managed, hybrid, on-premises)
- Customer presence in fewer than eight of 22 specified industry categories
- Revenue from fewer than three geographic regions
- Not meeting minimum revenue of $50M in 2023, or $5M with appropriate growth trajectory, or Top 22 Customer Interest Indicator ranking
Q: What differentiates Ability to Execute vs. Completeness of Vision?
A: Ability to Execute evaluates vendors on the quality and efficacy of their current processes, systems, methods and procedures to be competitive, efficient and effective. It focuses on present capabilities including product quality, financial health, sales execution, market responsiveness, customer experience and operations. Completeness of Vision evaluates vendors on their ability to articulate logical statements about current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs and competitive forces. It emphasizes strategic thinking and future direction including market understanding, product strategy, vertical/industry focus, innovation capabilities, and geographic expansion plans.
Reference
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms, 12 February 2025, ID G00808225
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