New Fortinet releases provide better protection for operational technology environments

Cybersecurity agency Fortinet Inc. in the present day introduced enhanced services and products for operational expertise environments as an growth of the its Safety Material for OT.

They’re designed to assist organizations higher defend their OT environments, together with bettering visibility and real-time response throughout the whole assault floor. The brand new merchandise empower safety operations heart groups to turn out to be extra environment friendly and efficient of their time to reply throughout factories, crops, distant areas and autos.

Topping the intensive listing of releases is the FortiGate 70F Rugged Subsequent-Technology Firewall, the newest addition to Fortinet’s portfolio designed for harsh environments. The brand new NGFW incorporates a compact design with converged networking and safety capabilities on a single processor.

Subsequent on the listing, the brand new FortiDeceptor Rugged 100G equipment is an industrially hardened rugged breach detection equipment for harsh industrial environments. The 100G helps numerous environments and has the flexibility to allow the on-demand creation of deception decoys primarily based on newly found vulnerabilities or suspicious exercise. Deception decoys are stated to assist groups fight rising threats and vulnerabilities and supply automated, dynamic safety throughout “web of issues,” OT and knowledge expertise environments.

Additionally new is FortiPAM Privileged Entry Administration for Safe Distant Entry. The discharge presents enterprise-grade privileged entry administration for IT and OT ecosystems, together with safe distant entry to essential property regulated and monitored by workflow-based entry approvals and session video recording.

Enhancements introduced by Fortinet in the present day embody the addition of occasion correlation and mapping of safety occasions within the unified safety analytics dashboard of FortiSIEM. The upgrades embody amongst different issues built-in parsers for OT safety options, assist for the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and an upgraded industrial management system dashboard for OT-specific menace evaluation.

FortiSOAR has been enhanced with new IT/OT dashboards mapped to the Purdue Mannequin hierarchy, OT-specific playbooks for menace remediation, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS for menace evaluation, and enhanced integration and connectors for OT menace intelligence.

Lastly, the FortiGuard Industrial Safety Service now contains greater than 2,000 software management signatures for OT purposes and protocols that assist deep packet inspection. The service now presents intrusion prevention signatures for over 500 identified ICS vulnerabilities, so weak property could be just about patched utilizing FortiGate’s next-generation intrusion prevention system.

“Conventional info safety merchandise will not be nicely fitted to cyber-physical safety,” John Maddison, government vp of merchandise and chief advertising officer at Fortinet, stated in an announcement. “The Fortinet Safety Material for OT is particularly designed for operational expertise, and we’re happy to introduce extra cyber-physical safety capabilities to guard these environments.”

mage: Fortinet