Fortinet warns of widening attack surface
Organizations must prioritize securing their OT environments by integrating tools and practices to help alleviate security risks.
The 2022 Fortinet State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report has warned that 93 percent of technology-dependent organizations had one or more security intrusions in the past year, with 61 percent of intrusions affecting OT systems.
Security breaches have the potential to disrupt critical infrastructure, resources, and services that support everything from local communities to entire nations, the company said.
“Organizations must prioritize securing their OT environments by integrating tools and practices to help alleviate security risks that may arise from lack of visibility and real-time response,” Fortinet said.
Fortinet said in a virtual conference with members of the media that it has released new and enhanced products and services to help organizations better protect their OT environments.
The systems help improve visibility and real-time response across the entire attack surface and empower security operations center teams to become more efficient and effective in their time to respond across factories, plants, remote locations and vehicles, it said.
It said FortiGate’s 70F Rugged Next-Generation Firewall is designed for harsh environments and features a new compact design with converged networking and security capabilities on a single processor.
The 70F has FortiGuard AI-powered enterprise-grade security services and delivers complete coverage for content, web and device security with dedicated OT and IoT services that are natively integrated with SD-WAN, universal zero trust network access and LAN edge controllers. 5G support is also available through an integration with FortiExtender.
FortiDeceptor, Fortinet’s deception technology for early breach detection and attack isolation, is now available as an industrially hardened rugged appliance — the FortiDeceptor Rugged 100G — for harsh industrial environments.
Meanwhile, the FortiPAM Privileged Access Management for Secure Remote Access offers enterprise-grade privileged access management for both IT and OT ecosystems. It includes secure remote access to critical assets regulated and monitored through workflow-based access approvals and session video recording.
FortiPAM, on the other hand, supports secure file exchange and a password vault to manage all credentials and keep them secret. It supports integration with FortiClient, FortiAuthenticator, and FortiToken to enable ZTNA, single sign-on, and multi-factor authentication.