The IT World Awards is an annual achievements and recognition programme highlighting the year’s best products, services and technologies in all sectors of information technology.

Nextnine won this award recognition for its ICS Shield solution for empowering providers of critical infrastructure and industrial enterprises to manage and minimize cyber security vulnerabilities in complex, multi-site and multi-vendor industrial environments.

ICS Shield is a cyber security management platform that protects operational technology, including all remote field assets, from a single security and operations centre. The solution automates the deployment and enforcement of operational-wide security policies with a focus on discovering a complete inventory of all operational assets and detecting anomalies and inefficiencies. The system also establishes a unified framework for fully authenticated, authorised and audited secure remote access according to granular policies. In addition, ICS Shield facilitates the cyber-hardening of the industrial network with security essentials, including patching, antivirus protection, log collection, compliance reporting and more.

“We are pleased to receive this award recognition for the clear value that ICS Shield is delivering to providers of critical infrastructure and other industrial enterprises,” said Shmulik Aran, CEO at Nextnine. “We are very proud of the fact that ICS Shield is one of the most widely deployed solutions for securing connected industrial operations, which was one of the main drivers behind Honeywell’s recent announcement of the definitive agreement to acquire Nextnine.”

ICS Shield has been deployed in over 6000 industrial plants and 1000 manufacturing facilities worldwide through the company’s global partnerships with leading industrial automation vendors, system integrators and managed security service providers.