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Secure OT Field Sites with the Fortinet OT Security Platform

Executive Summary

Organizations with industrial sites that connect to the internet, such as electric substations, manufacturing facilities, power plants, and oil rigs, must secure their growing attack surface. The urgency to secure critical infrastructure is amplified by well-funded bad actors and threat groups coupled with increasing government scrutiny in the form of regulatory compliance standards. It’ s critical for organizations to implement basic segmentation, improve visibility, enable secure remote access, and secure field sites.

With the Fortinet OT Security Platform, CIOs, CISOs, and OT security teams can take the first steps to implement segmentation, improve visibility, and secure field access. The OT Security Platform provides advanced security solutions to manage field site security. It simplifies security, helps ensure consistent operations, and makes it easier to assess, secure, and report on risk, including regulatory compliance requirements.

OT Field Site Challenges

To secure the entire attack surface, many OT organizations deploy visibility solutions to inventory OT field sites, such as electrical substations, capped oil wells, waysides along railroad tracks, connected factories, and electric vehicle charging stations. OT organizations need a simple, centralized, and effective way to secure field sites, no matter the size or operational status of the site. The entire attack surface must be protected from the largest production facility to the smallest OT field site. However, many organizations face challenges in securing field sites because of:

• A lack of visibility into OT networks

• Vulnerable legacy or unpatched devices that are tied to critical operations

• Harsh environmental conditions that may include extreme temperatures, dust, and humidity

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OT is essential to businesses and governments around the world, including critical infrastructure, healthcare systems, and manufacturing operations. The indispensable nature of OT and ICS systems is precisely what puts them at

• The sheer volume of field sites that must be cataloged and secured to meet regulatory compliance requirements, such as the Network and Information Security 2( NIS2) Directive and North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection( NERC-CIP)

Visibility into field industrial sites and their OT devices continues to be a challenge because many devices come from unique vendors and operate on specific protocols that traditional network visibility solutions can’ t see. This issue can create enormous blind spots for OT operators and security teams. Often, the sheer number of field sites that require visibility is staggering, so creating a complete inventory can be difficult. In some cases, the number of OT field sites can reach tens of thousands, so security solutions for OT field sites must be simple to deploy yet robust enough to scale.

Executive Summary

Organizations with industrial sites that connect to the internet, such as electric substations, manufacturing facilities, power plants, and oil rigs, must secure their growing attack surface. The urgency to secure critical infrastructure is amplified by well-funded bad actors and threat groups coupled with increasing government scrutiny in the form of regulatory compliance standards. It’ s critical for organizations to implement basic segmentation, improve visibility, enable secure remote access, and secure field sites.

With the Fortinet OT Security Platform, CIOs, CISOs, and OT security teams can take the first steps to implement segmentation, improve visibility, and secure field access. The OT Security Platform provides advanced security solutions to manage field site security. It simplifies security, helps ensure consistent operations, and makes it easier to assess, secure, and report on risk, including regulatory compliance requirements.

OT is essential to businesses and governments around the world, including critical infrastructure, healthcare systems, and manufacturing operations.

The indispensable nature of OT and ICS systems is precisely what puts them at elevated risk.

OT Field Site Challenges

To secure the entire attack surface, many OT organizations deploy visibility solutions to inventory OT field sites, such as electrical substations, capped oil wells, waysides along railroad tracks, connected factories, and electric vehicle charging stations. OT organizations need a simple, centralized, and effective way to secure field sites, no matter the size or operational status of the site. The entire attack surface must be protected from the largest production facility to the smallest OT field site. p

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