Secure Energy, Utilities, and Power with Fortinet
Protecting Critical Infrastructure Against Cyberattacks
How to Use NERC-CIPWith critical vulnerabilities in both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems, power and utilities companies must adopt in-depth defense strategies. The Fortinet Security Fabric provides broad, integrated, automated threat protection that is specifically geared to power generation, transmission, distribution, corporate infrastructure, and the user experience.
Threats to U.S. water and wastewater utilities are increasing with hackers targeting controls, chemical treatments, and water flows. To protect public health and infrastructure, utilities must prioritize cybersecurity investments. This report examines the state of cybersecurity based on a recent survey of water and wastewater facility professionals.
Learn MoreThe Fortinet Security Fabric mitigates critical vulnerabilities in both OT and IT systems. The platform provides a strong foundation and integrates security elements and threat intelligence to close security gaps and deliver faster, smarter response to threats.
Learn MoreFortinet provides comprehensive defense for stopping known and unknown threats at every stage of the attack cycle. This includes mitigating the impact of breaches that have evaded security controls.
Learn MorePlant Worker and Community Safety
Operations disrupted by a cyber-physical attack can create a safety risk for employees and the community.
Production Downtime
An attack disrupting operations can impact revenue, including distribution channels, and the supply chain.
Aging, Legacy Equipment
The attack surface for cyber-physical assets exposes production equipment to disruption from attack.
Meeting Compliance Standards
Power and utility organizations must meet and prove compliance with a variety of regulatory standards.
Fortinet solutions are user friendly and easy to configure and deploy. They make it simple to maintain and monitor the system and network and it can all be done from a single location which comes in handy in our complex network environment. Today, the team responsible for managing the appliances consists of 3 to 5 people, and it only takes them approximately 1 hour per day allowing us to optimize our time and resources.”
- Adnan Švraka, Expert of ICT Equipment, Elektroprivreda BiH
We were looking for an integrated approach, in which all the component parts would work together as a seamless solution. The Fortinet Security Fabric provided the broad visibility, central control, and automation we needed to protect our infrastructure.”
- Jacob Isacson, IT Director, Falu Energi & Vatten
Fortinet’s product line, software, and support—combined with SkyHelm’s skills, knowledge, expertise, and services—provide us with a great security benefit ensuring critical electric infrastructure is protected, monitored, and maintained in an efficient and cost-effective manner.”
- Shelby Vance, IT Director, Houston County Electric Cooperative
We cannot allow an operational error or an external attack, because we have people working all the time, 24×7. The implementation of a security solution in our critical infrastructure, such as Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, has become essential.”
- Andrés Koper, Plant Maintenance Manager, Sullair Argentina
Cyberattacks against power and utilities systems can have both digital and physical impacts. Experience how the Fortinet Security Fabric addresses the cybersecurity challenges in power and utilities.
Learn MoreSmart infrastructure, which converges the cyber and the physical aspect of a system, is revolutionizing the way that people, technology, and infrastructure function together.
Integrated, Automated Threat Protection Using the Fortinet Security Fabric
This comprehensive guide explains how Fortinet effectively provides security throughout the interconnected IT and OT infrastructure while fully enabling integration across Fortinet and partner security solutions and supporting security automation across the entire security ecosystem. It also explores how IT and OT are different yet increasingly interconnected, as well as ways to address increased security risks arising from such integrations.
Enabling Remote Work and Ensuring Business Continuity
Going from implied trust to zero trust
FortiGuard Industrial Security Service Secures ICS and OT With Application Control and Virtual Patching
IEC 62443 is a set of Industrial Control System (ICS) security standards written by ICS experts for ICS owners, manufacturers and integrators across a range of applications and sectors. Evaluating assigned security levels within identified security zones and conduits against functional and system requirements provides a cohesive approach to security. Fortinet teamed with the SANS Institute to review the standard and the needs from technology that support implementation. With guidance from IEC 62443 and implementation of Fortinet’s solutions, you can address the security of an ICS strategically.
Fortinet surveyed water utility leaders during the fourth quarter of 2021 to understand utilities’ status and future needs for improved water system cybersecurity
The utilities industry is under attack. Discover why utilities should view regulatory compliance and standards as an enabler.
This ebook identifies and discusses the drivers of IT and OT network convergence. It also highlights the technologies that asset owners should deploy to address the challenges posed by connecting industrial environments to the data center and the cloud.
CISOs need comprehensive strategies for confronting known and unknown threats, with a focus on mitigating the impact of breaches that have succeeded in evading security controls.
Collaboration and discussion between IT and OT security teams about actual barriers and boundaries can unlock apprehensions so that organizations can include OT networks in their comprehensive zero-trust security strategies.
The European Union’s (EU) New Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive has Far-Reaching Implications for Energy Sector and Utilities.
Fortinet surveyed water utility leaders during the second quarter of 2024 to understand water utilities’ status and future needs for improved water system cybersecurity.
Nearly one-third of 550 respondents had six or more intrusions, up from only 11% in 2023.
The Fortinet OT Security Platform provides full visibility, controlled access, and robust threat detection and response—while still achieving all the benefits that smart utility technology delivers to utilities and consumers.
The Fortinet OT Security Platform is a comprehensive system designed to protect OT environments. This platform includes secure networking, zero trust support, security operations solutions, dedicated threat intelligence, and a far-reaching and inclusi.ve technology alliance ecosystem
Microsegmentation provides OT networks with the security they need— without sacrificing network performance.
With critical vulnerabilities in both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments, power and utilities companies must adopt defense-in-depth strategies that efficiently protect both. The Fortinet Security Fabric addresses this need with integrated, automated threat protection specifically geared to security needs that arise in power generation, transmission, distribution, corporate infrastructure, and customer experience settings.
Utilities are now in a constant mode of evolution, and their cybersecurity requirements evolve at a similar pace. External factors such as distributed energy resources, pressure to adopt cleaner energy, and policies that encourage conservation demand change to how electric grids operate.
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Simplifies Operations Across Enterprise