About
Founded more than 20 years ago in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet continues to be a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Fortinet’s mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere. To that end, Fortinet’s portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products is the largest integrated offering available, delivering proven cybersecurity everywhere you need it. More than 805,000 customers trust Fortinet solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry.
The Current State of OT Cybersecurity
As industrial environments increase connectivity with external and internal applications and corporate IT networks, critical OT assets are exposed. IT/OT silos hinder the deployment of a cybersecurity strategy capable of mitigating threats in real time. The results can be devastating with the potential to disrupt critical infrastructure, resources, and services serving communities
Expanding the Most Comprehensive Platform for OT Security
Organizations with OT networks need a simple and effective way to get visibility and enforce security for their OT assets, often at thousands of remote sites. New Fortinet OT Security Platform expansions go beyond deep visibility, combining asset discovery with new segmentation, secure connectivity, and SecOps capabilities. These innovations help you to reduce organizational risk and adhere to regulatory compliance.
Securing OT with the OT Security Platform
The Fortinet Security Fabric seamlessly enables security for converged IT/OT ecosystems. It also provides an OT Security Platform with features and products to extend Security Fabric capabilities to OT networks in factories, plants, remote locations, and ships. To help alleviate security risks across the organization, we’ve continued to enhance our OT Security Platform offerings. These innovations range from edge products to NOC and SOC tools and services to ensure effective and efficient networking and cybersecurity performance and operation.
Purpose-Built OT Solutions
Industrial-grade firewalls, switches, and access points leverage important features and capabilities rated for outdoor use. These features include: dual power supplies with heat sinks, redundant power supplies, and the ability to be mounted on DIN rails. Many products such as FortiSandbox and FortiDeceptor have OT-specific features. FortiEDR can be deployed in a hybrid environment, and deception can mimic HMIs and PLCs.
The Fortinet OT Security Platform
The Fortinet OT Security Platform is an extension of the Fortinet Security Fabric, providing a broad, integrated, and automated platform. It includes secure networking, zero trust, network operations, and security operations solutions. AI-powered OT threat intelligence protects against the latest threats. The OT Security Platform naturally provides OT-vendor consolidation and enables IT/OT convergence of critical security resources.
OT Security Challenges
Most OT environments run legacy systems and protocols that are sensitive to disruption and lack effective security. Industrial environments once built to operate in isolated networks are now connected to the internet, exposing them to all the threats that plague IT networks. In addition, many OT organizations rely on OEMs and service providers to operate and maintain converged IT/OT networks remotely. This adds risk by both expanding the attack surface and inserting the potential for access by bad actors.
Lack of Effective Security
Most industrial control systems lack effective security and are sensitive to change
Expanding Attack Surface
The attack surface for cyber-physical assets is expanding as air-gapping declines
IT-OT Network Convergence
DX technologies driving IT-OT network convergence open the door to new threats
Insecure Remote Access
Asset owners’ reliance on OEMs and SIs exposes critical systems to additional risks
