Fortinet is further expanding its capabilities for securing OT environments against cyber attacks. It now offers new devices for harsh environments and improved network and operations security solutions.
These new updates should reduce industry risks of cyberattacks and improve enterprises’ OT security practices. Among other things, capabilities have been added to improve the identification of (industrial) assets and OT network topology within FortiOS OT View. This includes enhanced asset identity and location and communication paths.
The FortiOS operating system also gets expanded virtual patching capabilities, and new virtual patching signatures for FortiGuard OT Security Service are coming. The latter capabilities provide protection against vulnerabilities for unpatched OT devices, according to Fortinet.
Better software
On the software front, Fortinet is introducing more functionality for Secure Remote Access for OT product FortiSRA and an update for FortiExtender Vehicle. This latest update enhances vehicle fleet management with a ruggedized form factor that provides a secure LAN extension from remote Fortinet firewalls to a vehicle and emergency services platform.
Furthermore, Fortinet for OT security offers more AI capabilities, including options for FortiSOAR, FortiAnalyzer, FortiDeceptor-as-a-Service and FortiNDR for OT for more analytics of various OT and also IoT environments.
OT security hardware devices
Finally, Fortinet is expanding its OT security portfolio with new ruggedized hardware. For this purpose, two new series of dedicated hardened switches have now been introduced, the FortiSwitch Rugged 216F-POE and the FortiSwitch Rugged 424F-POE.
The first series is designed for bandwidth-intensive industrial environments and redundant architectures, while the second series focuses on industrial IoT devices.
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