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AhnLab CPS PLUS is a commercial industrial control system security tool by AhnLab. Sternum Runtime Protection is a commercial industrial control system security tool by Sternum. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best industrial control system security fit for your security stack.
Based on our analysis of NIST CSF 2.0 coverage, core features, integrations, company size fit, here is our conclusion:
Mid-market and enterprise operations teams protecting manufacturing or critical infrastructure will find AhnLab CPS PLUS valuable for its unidirectional data diode capability and portable endpoint scanning, which work in air-gapped or severely restricted OT networks where standard agents fail. The platform covers 10 of 23 NIST CSF 2.0 functions with particular strength in asset identification, continuous monitoring, and incident analysis across IT and OT together. Skip this if your priority is recovery and resilience post-breach; AhnLab emphasizes prevention and detection over response coordination, and the Asia-Pacific vendor presence means longer support latencies for North American teams.
Mid-market and enterprise teams protecting IoT and embedded devices in operational technology environments should consider Sternum Runtime Protection if zero-day mitigation without patching is your primary constraint. The EIV binary instrumentation approach delivers memory corruption and code injection prevention at 1–3% CPU overhead, which matters when you can't halt production systems for updates, and the agentless firmware integration avoids the deployment friction that kills most IoT security programs. This tool prioritizes attack prevention and forensics over vulnerability management; if your organization needs vulnerability scanning or patch orchestration, you're looking elsewhere.
Unified platform for protecting cyber-physical systems across OT, IT, and IoT
Agentless runtime security for IoT/embedded devices using EIV™ tech.
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AhnLab CPS PLUS: Unified platform for protecting cyber-physical systems across OT, IT, and IoT. built by AhnLab. headquartered in South Korea. Core capabilities include OT endpoint protection with application and device control, OT network visibility and threat detection, Network segmentation and perimeter security..
Sternum Runtime Protection: Agentless runtime security for IoT/embedded devices using EIV™ tech. built by Sternum. headquartered in Israel. Core capabilities include EIV™ binary instrumentation for firmware auto-profiling and integrity verification across all exploitation paths, Agentless deployment integrated into firmware build, testing, and deployment process with 1–3% CPU overhead, Prevention of memory corruption and code manipulation attacks (buffer overflows, command injections, execution flow manipulations)..
Both serve the Industrial Control System Security market but differ in approach, feature depth, and target audience.
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