August 11, 2021

ORDR Releases 2021 Rise of Machines Report

ORDR released its 2021 Rise of the Machines report analyzing connected device security trends across 500+ deployments, finding that 42% of devices are agentless or un-agentable.

ORDR, the leader in agentless security for all connected devices, released its annual report on the state of connected devices, titled "Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected devices -- IT, IoT, IoMT and OT." The 2021 report addresses pandemic-related cybersecurity challenges, including the growth of connected devices and related increase of security risks from these devices as threat actors took advantage of chaos to launch attacks.

The research incorporates security risk and trend analysis of anonymized data for 12 months from June 2020 through June 2021 across the company's 500+ deployments in healthcare, life sciences, retail, and manufacturing verticals.

The report found that 42% of connected devices were agentless or un-agentable devices, representing a significant increase compared to 32% of agentless or un-agentable devices in 2020.

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