CPS Protection Tools 2026
CPS Protection platforms give you a single view of the cyber-physical systems that traditional endpoint and vulnerability tools cannot see or safely touch: medical devices, building management systems, broad enterprise IoT, connected vehicles, and the OT assets that blur the line between IT and the physical world. The work is agentless discovery, risk scoring, and threat detection across unmanaged, often unpatchable gear where downtime or a safety incident matters as much as data loss. CISOs reach for this category once device sprawl outgrows their IT tooling and they need one platform that spans the domains other vendors keep siloed.
We cover 58 CPS Protection tools, 0 free and 58 commercial.
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New to this category? What is Cyber-Physical Systems Protection (CPS Protection)?
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How to choose CPS Protection tools
- Match domain depth to your real asset mix: a platform strong in medical devices may be thin on building systems or OT, so verify coverage where your devices actually live.
- Run a discovery proof of concept on your own network. Passive fingerprinting accuracy and the share of unidentified devices vary enormously between vendors.
- Check the data collection method and footprint: how it taps traffic, how many sensors you will deploy, and whether anything active risks disrupting safety-critical gear.
- Look at how it scores and prioritizes risk for assets you cannot patch, since most cyber-physical devices will never get a fix and need compensating controls instead.
- Confirm it integrates outward into your SIEM, NAC, CMMS, and ticketing, so the inventory drives action rather than sitting in a standalone console.
- Weigh scalability and deployment model against your sites: distributed locations, air-gapped segments, and cloud versus on-prem each change what works.
CPS Protection Tools FAQ
Common questions about CPS Protection tools, selection guides, pricing, and comparisons.
It is a tool that discovers, inventories, and protects cyber-physical systems across several asset classes at once: medical devices, building management systems, enterprise IoT, connected vehicles, and OT. Most work agentlessly by passively reading network traffic, since you cannot install software on a CT scanner or an HVAC controller. The aim is unified visibility and risk reduction across devices your endpoint and vulnerability tools never see.
OT and IoT tools typically specialize in one domain: OT on industrial control systems and SCADA, IoT on connected consumer or enterprise devices. CPS Protection is deliberately cross-domain, unifying healthcare devices, building systems, IoT, and OT under one inventory and risk model. If your environment mixes several of these and you would rather avoid a separate console per domain, this is the category.
Begin with your actual device mix and confirm the platform has real depth in those domains, not just a logo on a slide. Test discovery accuracy in your own environment, since passive fingerprinting quality varies widely. Check how it ingests traffic (SPAN, TAP, or sensors), how it scores risk for unpatchable assets, and whether it feeds your existing SIEM, CMMS, and NAC rather than becoming another silo.
Endpoint agents, vulnerability scanners, and IT asset tools generally cannot see or safely interrogate cyber-physical devices, and active scanning can crash fragile equipment. If you carry meaningful volumes of medical, building, or OT assets, a dedicated platform usually fills a real blind spot. If your footprint is small or single-domain, a focused OT or IoT tool, or even your NAC, may suffice.
Open-source projects handle OT protocol parsing and network monitoring, and they can give you partial passive visibility. What you pay commercial platforms for is cross-domain device fingerprinting, medical and building system risk intelligence, and the integrations that make the inventory actionable. Most teams use open tooling for discovery experiments and buy a platform once they need accurate inventory and risk at scale.
