# Cyber Company Profiles: Dispel

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## At a Glance

- Website: [dispel.com](https://dispel.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/dispel
- Type: Network Security, Identity Access, Infrastructure
- Also known as: Dispel, LLC
- Market readiness: Established (27/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2015
- Last updated: 2026-07-17

## Executive Summary

A decade into selling secure remote access for industrial control systems, Dispel's scale claims stay vendor-stated while its engineering is better evidenced. The numbers it leads with, over $500 billion in goods protected and 54 million utility users, recur across its own releases with no outside confirmation, and no cited source settles its funding. What recurs is the vendor-stated patent claim, a certified Nozomi integration, a vendor-announced Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod (s9), and named references (an ABB testimonial, Daimler and Seadrill case studies, partner logos) that stop short of quantified outcomes. That makes Dispel costly to copy but not hard to sit beside, because broader OT platform vendors already sell asset visibility to the same operators and could fold it in.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Dispel provides secure remote access, data streaming, and threat monitoring for industrial OT and ICS environments through a zero-trust networking platform built on moving target defense. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2015 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Brooklyn, New York, USA | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Dispel Zero Trust Engine | Zero-trust platform that standardizes OT secure remote access, industrial data streaming, and unified connectivity across industrial equipment using moving target defense. |
| OTFusion | Consolidates OT applications, tools, and services and unifies fragmented OT DMZs across an industrial footprint to standardize data flows. |
| Wicket Industrial Gateway | Hardware and software gateway that enables zero-trust OT remote access while also collecting and streaming data from IIoT devices and industrial equipment. |
| Integrated Threat Monitoring | Managed 24/7 OT threat monitoring service run by Dispel's security operations center, layered on top of the secure remote access platform. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Networks |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| Devices | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |
| Applications |  | ✓ |  |  |  |
| Users |  | ✓ |  |  |  |

The Dispel Zero Trust Engine mediates secure remote access to industrial control systems with moving target defense, encrypted pathways, identity checks, and continuous risk scoring. It defends conventional OT networks, devices, applications, and users and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (27/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-09. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 | Dispel names a specific buyer, industrial operators connecting vendors, contractors, and engineers to OT systems such as PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA, and ties it to a quantified pain in audit and compliance cost. Gartner publishes a Market Guide for CPS Secure Remote Access, corroborating that the problem exists at category scale beyond Dispel's own framing. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | The capability rests on a patented network-level moving target defense and compostable SD-WAN architecture, with a certified Nozomi Networks integration and a Gartner Peer Insights product listing as external validation points beyond marketing pages. Documentation describes encrypted pathways, identity checks, and continuous risk scoring. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | Gartner published a Market Guide for CPS Secure Remote Access, an analyst signal that buyers treat OT remote access as its own budget line, and NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2 mandates drive demand. Dispel opened a UK office in December 2025 citing accelerating European OT cybersecurity demand. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Co-CEO Ethan Schmertzler is publicly identifiable and speaks for the company in partnership and expansion announcements, and the 43-plus patent portfolio is a sustained technical signal. No verifiable prior exit or sustained external publication record in the OT domain surfaced in public sources. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | Dispel shows a certified Nozomi partnership, a Gartner Peer Insights product presence, a 2026 Global InfoSec Award, a 2025 UK expansion, and named references on its own site (ABB, Mitsubishi, Seadrill, Reckitt), all real motion. The references skew toward partner and OEM names with anonymized reviewer quotes, and its headline scale claims stay vendor- stated, so the lift holds the score at adequate rather than strong. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 | Dispel's funding is reported inconsistently across public databases, one source listing several rounds totaling tens of millions and another a single small round, with no dated press confirmation of a total. A raise that stays unverifiable amid conflicting reports is a weak signal, and the conflict cannot be resolved from the public record. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | Gartner names a CPS Secure Remote Access category and lists Dispel's product type within it, so buyers and analysts place the offering in a recognized budget slot without vendor coaching. The OT secure remote access label is used consistently across press and analyst coverage. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | The patented moving target defense networking and 43-plus patent portfolio raise the engineering bar above a quarterly feature release for an adjacent platform. Cyber-physical-systems platform vendors such as Claroty and Dragos sell to the same plant operators and could converge on remote access, so the moat is real but not insurmountable. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Broader OT platform vendors could bundle remote access into a cyber-physical-systems platform sale and absorb Dispel's beachhead with the same plant operators.
- If Dispel's headline scale claims stay vendor-stated without a quantified named end-operator case study or independent confirmation, buyers and partners may discount them in competitive evaluations even with partner references on hand.
- Conflicting public funding records could signal that Dispel has not raised at the pace its enterprise go-to-market implies, constraining the channel and expansion motion.
- Privileged-access incumbents and zero-trust network-access vendors could extend their IT remote-access budget line into OT and squeeze the category from the enterprise side.

### Problem & Market

Dispel sells connectivity and control for industrial operators who must let internal engineers, contractors, and equipment vendors reach OT systems without slowing production. The product targets PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA across utilities, manufacturing, water and wastewater, mining, and oil and gas, and positions secure remote access as the entry point to a wider OT connectivity platform.

Independent signals corroborate the demand. Gartner publishes a Market Guide for CPS Secure Remote Access and describes Dispel as software that secures remote access to operational technology using moving target defense and encrypted pathways. Dispel frames the pain in operational and audit terms, pitching faster vendor onboarding and continuous compliance evidence for NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

The Dispel Zero Trust Engine is the company's platform, standardizing OT secure remote access, industrial data streaming, and unified connectivity across makes and generations of equipment. The distinctive mechanism is a network-level moving target defense layered on a compostable SD-WAN architecture, which the company says rotates the network path to remove persistent attack surfaces while scoring risk on every session.

External validation reaches past marketing pages. Dispel holds more than 43 patents across networking, access control, and managed services, carries a certified technology integration with the Nozomi Networks platform for unified OT asset visibility, and appears on Gartner Peer Insights. A second product, OTFusion, consolidates fragmented OT DMZs and standardizes data flows across an industrial footprint. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Dispel competes in OT and ICS secure remote access against direct specialists and adjacent incumbents. Other purpose-built OT remote-access vendors sell the same job to the same buyer, and broader cyber-physical-systems platform vendors that sell asset visibility and threat detection to plant operators sit one purchase away from folding access in.

Pressure also comes from the enterprise IT side, where privileged-access incumbents and zero-trust network-access vendors hold the corporate remote-access budget line and some buyers extend it into OT. Dispel's visible differentiator is the patented moving target defense networking, which raises the engineering bar above a quarterly feature release, though it does not block a well-resourced platform. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Dispel shows real go-to-market motion. It announced a certified integration with Nozomi Networks at the S4 OT cybersecurity conference in February 2024, opened a UK office in Cardiff, Wales in December 2025 with a quote from the head of the Welsh Government, and won a 2026 Global InfoSec Award for secure remote access alongside a Gartner Peer Insights product presence.

Named references exist but the scale numbers stay vendor-stated. Dispel's homepage carries a Real-World Impact section naming ABB, Mitsubishi, Seadrill, and Reckitt as case studies, with partner quotes from named executives at ABB and Mitsubishi Electric, though these skew toward partner and OEM relationships plus anonymized reviewer quotes. Its recurring claims of protecting over $500 billion in goods and securing 54 million utility users appear verbatim across its own releases with no independent confirmation, so a quantified named end-operator outcome is still missing. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Ethan Schmertzler is Co-CEO and the public voice of the company in partnership and expansion announcements. The 43-plus patent portfolio is a sustained technical signal that the team has built defensible networking IP over the company's decade of operation.

Public proof of pedigree otherwise stays thin. No founder exit, sustained research-publication record, or recognized community standing in the OT domain surfaced in the reviewed sources, so the team reads as technically credible but without the external recognition that would lift it further. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Dispel sells into audit-driven buyers and builds its pitch around compliance. The platform advertises continuously built compliance evidence for NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2 and continuous risk scoring across every remote-access session, which maps directly to the controls regulated industrial audits ask for.

The reviewed sources did not surface a public trust center, SOC 2 attestation, or ISO certification page for Dispel itself as of June 2026, so the compliance posture reads as something the product helps customers achieve rather than something the vendor publicly evidences about its own operations. This is a gather-time observation, not a categorical absence. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Cyolo | competes with | Cyolo sells secure remote access for OT and ICS to the same regulated industrial buyer, competing on a decentralized customer-boundary architecture where Dispel competes on patented moving target defense networking. |
| Claroty | competes with | Claroty sells a broader cyber-physical-systems protection platform to the same plant operators and could fold remote access into a wider purchase. |
| Dragos | competes with | Dragos sells OT asset visibility and threat detection to the same industrial buyer and partners across the OT security stack, positioning it to converge on remote access. |
| Xona Systems | competes with | Xona sells purpose-built secure remote access for OT and critical infrastructure to the same buyer Dispel targets. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-17. Scope: whole company.

The hardest thing for a rival to reproduce is Dispel's core engineering, a network-level moving target defense its pages describe as eliminating static, persistent pathways, backed by a vendor-stated 43-plus patent portfolio built over a decade. Regulated utilities and manufacturers add a second brake, because they put any swap through procurement, safety review, and compliance audits before approving it. That hold has limits. The record evidences no cross-customer data asset, and a customer can revert to off-the-shelf remote-access tools without losing a dependency. Broader OT platform vendors already sell asset visibility to the same operators, so the patents raise the cost of copying the mechanism without stopping a buyer from sourcing access elsewhere.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Dispel primarily sells software the customer runs, and s2 presents a native 24/7 managed OT threat-monitoring service beside it with continuous risk scoring. The cited pages do not establish that the managed service bears the contract's outcome, and no evidence shows the company accepting accountability for customer security outcomes, so the offering reads as customer-run software. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Replacing an inline access platform deployed across many OT sites means re-onboarding vendor identities, policies, monitoring, and the certified Nozomi integration, which is meaningful friction. No cross-customer data gravity adds to it, so migration remains an effortful project rather than a wall. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2 mandates drive demand for the category but name no vendor specifically, and a determined rival could clear the same bars. This is a category tailwind that lifts every qualified vendor rather than a moat that locks in Dispel. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Network-level moving target defense on a compostable SD-WAN architecture, backed by 43-plus patents across networking and access control, is real-time systems engineering and specialized expertise accumulated over a decade, beyond the well-understood access-broker pattern. This is the dimension where Dispel sits above the same-asset peer. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | Dispel sells to regulated industrial enterprises and critical infrastructure operators such as electric utilities, water and wastewater systems, mining, and oil and gas, where procurement, safety review, and audit sit between an incumbent and any replacement. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 1/3 | The Zero Trust Engine brokers and monitors remote connections rather than serving as infrastructure other applications are built on. A buyer can revert to VPNs and jump boxes, so nothing depends on Dispel as a foundation it cannot replace. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | Dispel states more than 43 patents across networking, access control, managed attribution, and zero trust (s7, s8), IP that raises a rival's recreation and design-around cost, which clears the bar above no proprietary asset. It is a patent portfolio rather than an accumulating cross-customer dataset, so it stops short of the top level reserved for a non-replicable data moat. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Dispel targets industrial enterprises and critical infrastructure operators. The named sectors are manufacturing, electric utilities, water and wastewater, mining, and oil and gas, a roster that matches its messaging about protecting industrial operations and its Nozomi Networks partnership announcement at S4x25.

The sale runs through two personas at once. Dispel pitches OT and operations teams on faster vendor onboarding and reduced downtime while pitching security and compliance teams on zero-trust enforcement, continuous risk scoring, and audit-ready evidence for NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2. The platform's framing of removing friction from industrial remote access speaks to the operations buyer, while moving target defense and risk scoring speak to the security buyer.

Reach is international. Dispel's releases carry Austin, Texas datelines and its site structured data lists a Brooklyn address, with headquarters not stated in the cited record, and it opened a European office in Cardiff, Wales in December 2025 to anchor operations and customer success teams for European industrial customers. No vertical packaging or public deal-size signals appear beyond the sector messaging. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Dispel documents its capabilities around a distinctive networking mechanism. The platform is built on a network-level moving target defense layered on a compostable SD-WAN architecture, which Gartner Peer Insights describes as securing remote access through moving target defense and encrypted network pathways, with real-time monitoring and multi-factor authentication among the features.

The live product navigation now also lists a Wicket Industrial Gateway and presents Integrated Threat Monitoring as a named offering (2026-07-17, homepage sha ae82461e945a0d40), so the two-product frame is bounded to the July capture pending a product re-inventory. The Zero Trust Engine standardizes three functions: OT secure remote access, industrial data streaming, and unified connectivity across makes and generations of equipment. A second product, OTFusion, consolidates fragmented OT DMZs and standardizes data flows, and the company runs a 24/7 SOC threat-monitoring service on top of the access platform.

No proprietary data advantage is claimed or evidenced. The defensible asset Dispel points to is its patent portfolio, vendor-stated as more than 43 patents in 2026 releases (s7) and over 42 across networking, access control, managed attribution, and zero trust on an earlier awards profile (s8), rather than an accumulating cross-customer dataset. External validation comes from the certified Nozomi integration, the Gartner Peer Insights listing, and vendor-hosted reference snippets on its own site naming ABB, Mitsubishi, Seadrill, and Reckitt. No independent benchmark surfaced in the reviewed record, so the customer-side evidence stays vendor-curated rather than third-party. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Dispel pairs partnership-led motion with industry recognition. It announced a certified technology integration with the Nozomi Networks platform at the S4x25 OT cybersecurity conference (the release dateline reads February 2024 while the event name and structured publication date indicate February 2025), unifying OT asset visibility with secure remote access, and the integration places Dispel next to a vendor the industrial buyer already trusts.

Recognition and named references back the motion. Dispel won a 2026 Global InfoSec Award for secure remote access and maintains a Gartner Peer Insights product presence. The December 2025 UK office opening, announced with a quote from the head of the Welsh Government, signals expansion investment. Its site carries an ABB testimonial (s1), Daimler and Seadrill case studies (s2, s3), and Mitsubishi Electric and Reckitt as served logo marks deep in the homepage (live 2026-07-17).

Named end-operator case studies exist: Daimler appears in the case-study material and Seadrill's is employee-voiced (s2, s3). The remaining references skew toward partner and OEM relationships plus anonymized reviewer quotes, and Dispel's headline scale figures stay aggregate and vendor-stated, so a buyer still lacks a quantified named end-operator outcome. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Dispel publishes no pricing. The product paths end in demo requests and a downloadable platform brief rather than packaging tiers, and the charging unit is undisclosed, so a buyer cannot tell whether Dispel charges per site, per user, per connected asset, or per facility.

The opacity fits the motion. Channel and direct enterprise deals run behind demo-led contact with no published price, the pattern of negotiated OT purchases. Nothing public answers how contracts scale across the many sites an industrial footprint spans, which is the unit OT buyers use to size the problem. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Dispel delivers through a platform that spans cloud-connected and on-premises deployment. The company documents SaaS, private-cloud, and on-premises deployment aligned to NERC CIP controls (s2), which matches the constraints of regulated operators where cloud connectivity to OT is limited.

Operational integration reaches the surrounding OT stack. The certified Nozomi Networks integration correlates asset visibility with secure access, and the platform advertises continuous risk scoring and 24/7 threat monitoring as ongoing operational services rather than one-time deployments. The compostable SD-WAN architecture is positioned to scale across large industrial footprints without per-site infrastructure rebuilds. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Dispel's trust pitch is compliance-forward. The platform advertises continuously built audit evidence for NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2 and continuous risk scoring on every session, which maps to the controls regulated industrial audits ask for, and the moving target defense mechanism directly answers the persistent-attack-surface concern a remote-access broker raises.

Public trust artifacts about Dispel's own operations improved on re-check. The site's footer links a Security page that presents SOC 2 and ISO 27001, lists a SOC 2 Type 2 Security Report among its compliance documentation, and states its certifications are independently verified (live 2026-07-17, s10). \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Dispel positions the Zero Trust Engine as a connectivity platform rather than a point tool. It standardizes OT remote access, data streaming, and unified connectivity, and OTFusion extends the footprint by consolidating OT applications, tools, and DMZs, which moves the company from a single access function toward broader OT connectivity spend.

The ecosystem play runs through technology alliances. The certified Nozomi Networks integration is the visible anchor, pairing Dispel's access layer with a leading OT visibility platform. That alliance is also a dependency, since the same buyer relationship gives a broader cyber-physical-systems platform vendor a path to bundle access into a wider purchase. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Ethan Schmertzler is Co-CEO and the public voice of Dispel in partnership and expansion announcements. The company's decade of operation and its vendor-stated 43-plus patent portfolio (s7, s8) signal a team that has built defensible technical IP rather than assembled commodity software.

Public proof of pedigree otherwise stays thin. No founder exit, sustained research-publication record, or recognized community standing in the OT domain surfaced in the reviewed sources, so the team reads as technically credible and durable but without the external recognition that would lift its profile further. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Dispel: Secure Remote Access and Data Streaming for OT and ICS](https://dispel.com) | official | 2026-06-21 |
| f2 | [Dispel Wins Hot Company Secure Remote Access at Global InfoSec Awards 2026](https://www.mycentraljersey.com/press-release/story/373982/dispel-wins-hot-company-secure-remote-access-at-global-infosec-awards-2026/) | press | 2026-06-21 |
| f3 | [Dispel homepage Organization structured data (Brooklyn, NY address; earlier press datelines used Austin)](https://dispel.com/) | official | 2026-07-17 |
| f4 | [Dispel Reviews and Ratings 2026, Gartner Peer Insights](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/dispel) | other | 2026-06-21 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Dispel homepage](https://dispel.com) “Cut audit preparation costs ... compliance evidence built continuously across NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2. ... Case Study ABB Mitsubishi Seadrill Reckitt ... At ABB ... Charles Bennet, Global Head of Service ... At Mitsubishi Electric ... Aga Zupancic, Product Manager.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s2 | [Dispel Zero Trust Engine product page](https://dispel.com/products/dispel-zero-trust-engine) “The Dispel Zero Trust Engine standardizes OT remote access, real-time data streaming, and unified connectivity across your enterprise.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s3 | [Dispel Secure Remote Access for ICS and OT](https://dispel.com/solutions/secure-remote-access) “Powered by a Moving Target Defense (MTD) compostable SD-WAN architecture, Dispel delivers OT secure remote access that accelerates workflows, minimizes downtime, and drives faster time-to-value.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s4 | [Dispel and Nozomi Networks Deliver Integrated Zero Trust Security Solutions for OT/IoT Environments](https://www.nozominetworks.com/press-release/dispel-and-nozomi-networks-deliver-integrated-zero-trust-security-solutions-for-ot-iot-environments) “February 11, 2024 - Dispel ... today announced at the S4x25 OT cybersecurity conference an expanded technology alliance and certified technology integration between the Nozomi Networks Platform and the Dispel Zero Trust Engine. ... said Ethan Schmertzler, Co-CEO of Dispel.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s5 | [Dispel Expands European Presence as Demand for OT Cybersecurity Accelerates](https://dispel.com/blog/dispel-expands-european-presence-as-demand-for-ot-cybersecurity-accelerates) “AUSTIN, Texas, December 15, 2025, Dispel ... today announced the opening of its European office in the United Kingdom. ... Located in Cardiff, Wales ... said Ethan Schmertzler, Co-CEO of Dispel.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s6 | [Dispel Reviews and Ratings 2026, Gartner Peer Insights](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/dispel) “Dispel is a software designed to secure remote access to operational technology environments by utilizing moving target defense and encrypted network pathways.” | other | 2026-06-21 |
| s7 | [Dispel Wins Hot Company Secure Remote Access at Global InfoSec Awards 2026](https://www.mycentraljersey.com/press-release/story/373982/dispel-wins-hot-company-secure-remote-access-at-global-infosec-awards-2026/) “Founded in 2015, Dispel pioneered network-level Moving Target Defense (MTD) and holds more than 43 patents. Dispel protects over $500 billion in manufactured goods annually and secures remote access for 54 million utility users worldwide.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s8 | [Dispel, Cybersecurity Excellence Awards candidate](https://cybersecurity-excellence-awards.com/candidates/dispel-2025/) “Founded in 2015, Dispel pioneered the first network-level moving target defense SD-WANs and holds over 42 patents across networking, access control, managed services.” | other | 2026-06-21 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Dispel homepage](https://dispel.com) “Cut audit preparation costs ... compliance evidence built continuously across NERC CIP, NIST, and NIS2. ... Case Study ABB Mitsubishi Seadrill Reckitt ... At ABB ... Charles Bennet, Global Head of Service ... At Mitsubishi Electric ... Aga Zupancic, Product Manager.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s2 | [Dispel Zero Trust Engine product page](https://dispel.com/products/dispel-zero-trust-engine) “The Dispel Zero Trust Engine standardizes OT remote access, real-time data streaming, and unified connectivity across your enterprise.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s3 | [Dispel Secure Remote Access for ICS and OT](https://dispel.com/solutions/secure-remote-access) “Powered by a Moving Target Defense (MTD) compostable SD-WAN architecture, Dispel delivers OT secure remote access that accelerates workflows, minimizes downtime, and drives faster time-to-value.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s4 | [Dispel and Nozomi Networks Deliver Integrated Zero Trust Security Solutions for OT/IoT Environments](https://www.nozominetworks.com/press-release/dispel-and-nozomi-networks-deliver-integrated-zero-trust-security-solutions-for-ot-iot-environments) “February 11, 2024 - announced at the S4x25 conference ... certified technology integration between the Nozomi Networks Platform and the Dispel Zero Trust Engine ... Ethan Schmertzler, Co-CEO of Dispel ... sectors like manufacturing, electric utilities, water/wastewater, mining, and oil & gas.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s5 | [Dispel Expands European Presence as Demand for OT Cybersecurity Accelerates](https://dispel.com/blog/dispel-expands-european-presence-as-demand-for-ot-cybersecurity-accelerates) “AUSTIN, Texas, December 15, 2025, Dispel ... today announced the opening of its European office in the United Kingdom. ... Located in Cardiff, Wales ... said Ethan Schmertzler, Co-CEO of Dispel.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s6 | [Dispel Reviews and Ratings 2026, Gartner Peer Insights](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/dispel) “Dispel is a software designed to secure remote access to operational technology environments by utilizing moving target defense and encrypted network pathways. The software offers features such as real-time monitoring, multi-factor authentication.” | other | 2026-06-21 |
| s7 | [Dispel Wins Hot Company Secure Remote Access at Global InfoSec Awards 2026](https://www.mycentraljersey.com/press-release/story/373982/dispel-wins-hot-company-secure-remote-access-at-global-infosec-awards-2026/) “Founded in 2015, Dispel pioneered network-level Moving Target Defense (MTD) and holds more than 43 patents. Dispel protects over $500 billion in manufactured goods annually and secures remote access for 54 million utility users worldwide.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s8 | [Dispel, Cybersecurity Excellence Awards candidate](https://cybersecurity-excellence-awards.com/candidates/dispel-2025/) “Founded in 2015, Dispel pioneered the first network-level moving target defense SD-WANs and holds over 42 patents across networking, access control, managed services.” | other | 2026-06-21 |
| s9 | [Dispel blog: recognized as Gartner Cool Vendor in Cyber-Physical Systems Security 2025 (vendor-announced)](https://dispel.com/blog/dispel-recognized-as-gartner-cool-vendor-in-cyber-physical-systems-security-2025) “Cool Vendor in Cyber-Physical Systems Security 2025” | official | 2026-07-17 |
| s10 | [Dispel Security page (footer-linked, presents SOC 2 and ISO 27001, fetched 2026-07-17)](https://dispel.com/security) “SOC 2 ... ISO 27001” | official | 2026-07-17 |

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