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 from Frost & Sullivan, recognizing the company’s strong performance in delivering customer value, driving product innovation, and advancing converged cybersecurity across mission-critical industrial environments.
The recognitions highlight Kaspersky’s ability to align its cybersecurity strategy with the evolving requirements of industrial organizations while executing through a unified, OT-native approach. As industrial environments undergo rapid digitalization and face increasingly complex cyber-physical attack surfaces, legacy infrastructure challenges, and growing IT/OT convergence, Kaspersky demonstrates a differentiated ability to strengthen protection while maintaining operational continuity.
Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process focused on strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Kaspersky performed strongly across both 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 through 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,” said Tetsuya Niihara, Director at Frost & Sullivan.
Purpose-Built Security for Industrial Environments
Kaspersky’s strategy is focused on the realities of industrial and critical infrastructure environments, where cybersecurity solutions must accommodate legacy systems, heterogeneous architectures, and stringent uptime requirements.
Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS) combines endpoint protection, OT network monitoring, anomaly detection, and asset visibility, while Kaspersky’s broader IT security portfolio extends these capabilities across enterprise environments.
The Open Single Management Platform provides centralized oversight and enables cross-domain threat correlation, helping organizations establish a more unified view of their security posture across IT and OT environments.
Innovation Designed for OT Security
Innovation remains a central component of 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 (KIRA) further strengthen security operations by helping analysts accelerate investigation and improve 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,” said Adrian Hia, Managing Director, APAC at Kaspersky.
Strengthening Security Without Disrupting Operations
Kaspersky’s customer value proposition is further reinforced by its emphasis on non-disruptive protection and operational continuity.
Capabilities such as zero-reboot updates, precision alerting, portable scanning, and OT-aware support enable organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity posture while minimizing disruption to production environments.
Its localized engagement model and partner ecosystem across key Asia-Pacific markets also support practical deployment and sustained customer value, helping organizations implement cybersecurity measures suited to their specific operational requirements.
“Kaspersky’s approach stands out for bringing together comprehensive OT protection, visibility, and management while maintaining the operational discipline required in industrial environments. By connecting KICS with its broader IT security capabilities, the company provides customers with a more unified view of risk across traditionally siloed environments, helping strengthen both security effectiveness and operational efficiency,” said Rajarshi Dhar, Associate Director, Security Advisory Practice at Frost & Sullivan.
Advancing OT and IT/OT Convergence
Frost & Sullivan commends Kaspersky for establishing a strong position at the intersection of OT cybersecurity, IT/OT convergence, cyber-physical systems security, and cyber resilience.
By combining OT-native protection with unified IT/OT visibility and management, Kaspersky enables organizations to secure increasingly interconnected industrial ecosystems while maintaining operational performance.
The two recognitions underscore the company’s continued focus on helping industrial organizations navigate an evolving threat landscape through integrated protection, innovation, operational resilience, and customer-focused execution.
To read the full reports, visit Kaspersky’s official reports page.
