Cyware, vendor of agentic AI-powered operational threat intelligence and collective defense, today announced its partnership with WaterISAC, which serves as the communications and information-sharing organization for the water sector, uniting utilities, security experts, and government partners to deliver actionable intelligence, strengthen resilience, and protect critical water infrastructure nationwide.
The partnership provides water and wastewater utilities through WaterISAC with real-time, AI-powered threat intelligence, enabling streamlined information sharing to strengthen the collective defense against escalating cyberattacks on the nation’s critical water infrastructure.
“Adversaries targeting Operational Technology (OT) now move at machine speed, and WaterISAC has chosen Cyware to ensure that water utility critical infrastructure has access to real-time threat intelligence they can act on,” said Tom Stockmeyer, managing director for Government and Critical Infrastructure at Cyware. “We look forward to working with WaterISAC to distribute validated threat data across the community and help water utilities take action in real time. Collective defense works best when a detected threat or vulnerability reaches every participating organization, regardless of size or cyber maturity, and each one can accelerate its response to neutralize incoming threats. That is what Cyware delivers across nearly all major critical infrastructure sectors.”
Water infrastructure carries distinct challenges: human life cannot be sustained for more than five days without water, and water systems are critical for drinking, wastewater sanitation, and fire suppression, as well as supporting nearly every segment of the U.S. economy. That makes the sector an increasingly attractive target for adversaries seeking to undermine the public’s trust in government – and with 50,000-plus water utilities across the U.S., everyone is a potential point of failure that could put thousands of residents at risk.
Cyware will build on WaterISAC’s strong foundation of delivering timely, actionable intelligence and vulnerabilities to the water and wastewater systems sector by enhancing intelligence collection, enrichment, and response capabilities beyond manual processes. This will help WaterISAC significantly reduce manual effort, deliver relevant intelligence and vulnerabilities more efficiently, and enable members to identify threats faster, collaborate more effectively, and better protect the critical water and wastewater services our nation depends on.
“Our partnership with the National Rural Water Association already allows us to serve over 20,000 of the water sector’s smallest utilities, and adding Cyware is the natural next step,” said Tom Dobbins, Executive Director, WaterISAC. “Our goal is to provide a high-quality threat intelligence platform that helps our analysts deliver more real-time insights to our members and lets us extend that directly to our larger utilities. We went through a rigorous evaluation of the platforms available, and Cyware stood out as the quality product our members need.”
