Cylera vs Ordr (2026)
Both find connected devices on hospital networks without agents and turn what they find into segmentation. Cylera builds virtual copies of devices from their traffic and runs vulnerability tests against those instead of the live equipment. Its policy generator writes segmentation rules and enrolls new devices automatically. Utilization analytics serve biomedical engineering. Ordr watches traffic with passive sensors. In house machine learning classifies each device, baselines its behavior and flags anomalies. AI Protect for Segmentation shows the effect of a policy before any rule changes and applies approved policies through the hospital's firewalls and NAC. Choose Cylera to test vulnerabilities on emulated copies of devices; choose Ordr for segmentation with a published approval step and a stated hosting model.
- Vulnerability tests should run on emulated devices, not live ones.
- New devices should be enrolled into segmentation policy automatically.
- You report against the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit as well as US rules.
- Policy changes should wait for an operator's approval after a simulation.
- Your security review needs a stated hosting region and a SOC 2 Type II report.
- Your team wants to question the device inventory in plain language.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Cylera and Ordr are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Cylera | Ordr |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Healthcare Cybersecurity | Healthcare Cybersecurity |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States | Santa Clara, California, United States |
| Website | cylera.com | ordr.net |
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Product updates
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Product / capability
Ordr announced expanded ecosystem integrations across security, IT, and Zero Trust workflows, including a new integration with TruAsset.
Source
Each vendor in one paragraph
Written to be quoted whole. Each paragraph opens the AI Health Index profile of the vendor: what the product is, who buys it and what it does.
Cylera sells an IoT asset intelligence and security platform that began in hospitals and now also serves finance, higher education, transportation, manufacturing and energy. Collection is agentless and passive, extracting device context from known and unknown protocols. Its distinguishing technique is network traffic emulation: the platform builds virtual stand-ins for devices from their traffic and probes those instead of the live equipment, so vulnerability testing never touches a device in clinical use.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
ORDR (formerly styled Ordr) sells connected device security for healthcare, manufacturing, finance, government and other sectors, built around turning device intelligence into enforced network segmentation.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Cylera and Ordr work with the EHR?
For Cylera, integration pages and solution briefs cover Cisco ISE, Prime and DNA Center, Aruba ClearPass, Extreme NAC, Forescout, Illumio, Check Point, SonicWall, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, IBM QRadar, Splunk, Rapid7 InsightVM, ServiceNow, Nuvolo and Integra e-Quip. No named hospital is shown running a two-way CMMS integration.
With Ordr, the company cites more than 130 integrations, including Cisco ISE, ServiceNow CMDB enrichment, Nuvolo, Qualys, firewalls and VMware NSX, pushing device context to enforcement points and filling gaps in the CMDB. Dayton Children's runs ORDR with Cisco ISE to place devices in segmented VLANs. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Cylera and Ordr priced and sold?
In Cylera's case, the platform is sold through demos, a product tour and channel partners in North America, the UK and Europe.
For Ordr, the platform is sold as AI Protect for Security, AI Protect for Segmentation and ORDR IQ, with a free ORDR IQ sandbox and a demo request. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Cylera and Ordr handle patient data?
With Cylera, the privacy statements cover website visitors only.
In Ordr's case, the privacy policy says the device profiling models are built in house and run in ORDR's own data center without exposing customer data to third-party models or outside training; ORDR IQ runs with zero data retention always on, processes input in real time, deletes it after computation, and never uses it to train models. The SOC 2 page adds secure data destruction at contract end. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What evidence is published for Cylera and Ordr?
St. Luke's University Health Network's CISO is quoted, case studies are listed for RWJBarnabas Health, St. Luke's and Morecambe Bay (behind download forms), the American Hospital Association selected Cylera as a preferred cybersecurity provider in April 2021, and an analyst SPARK Matrix report is offered. The home page lists improvements in discovery, risk score accuracy and alert workload without a figure.
With Ordr, the company cites more than 100 million devices classified and 500-plus customers, and KLAS named it a market leader in 2022. None of it comes with a before and after figure or a stated method. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Healthcare Cybersecurity page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither publishes a price. Neither states a business associate position. Ordr's healthcare page carries a "HIPAA Compliant" badge. Cylera publishes no security attestation, product privacy terms or hosting model. Its privacy statements cover the website, not the product. Ordr runs on AWS in us-east-1, with a SOC 2 Type II report under NDA. Cylera enrolls new devices into policy automatically, and no approval step is published. Ordr publishes an approval step for segmentation. It does not publish what the ORDR IQ agents may do without approval. Neither publishes customer results with a method. Both publish rank claims about themselves, which this page does not rely on.
Ask Cylera how closely an emulated device matches the real one, and ask Ordr which ORDR IQ actions run unattended.