Fortinet boosts OT security with advanced features

Fortinet has upgraded its Operational Technology (OT) Security Platform with new features and enhanced partnerships. Key updates include advanced secure networking capabilities, ruggedized appliances like the FortiSwitch Rugged series, and expanded OT security operations through AI-driven tools like FortiSOAR and FortiNDR.

These improvements aim to address rising cyber threats in cyber-physical systems (CPS) and better protect industrial environments. Fortinet also strengthened collaborations with OT vendors like Armis and Claroty, and introduced a new partner designation to support OT infrastructure deployment.

These updates reflect Fortinet’s commitment to securing increasingly complex OT environments and enhancing its platform’s capabilities.

On OT security

“Armis and Fortinet are a full stack best-in-class OT/IoT security solution that sees, protects, and manages every critical OT asset in the environment fully. The partnership between Armis and Fortinet is strategic and complementary for both our companies and our mutual customers. Being a partner in Fortinet’s industry-leading Technology Alliance Program enables Armis to deepen the integrations between the Armis Centrixplatform and the Fortinet Security Fabric, resulting in the broadest real-time visibility into IT/OT intersection risks and maximization of policy-driven enforcement of zero-trust network access and segmentation. Together, we co-innovate to address our customers’ most consequential cyber risks in OT and enable protection at scale.”
– Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO, Armis

“Claroty xDome combined with the Fortinet Security Fabric delivers a level of visibility, context, and network policy enforcement that is unmatched in securing cyber-physical systems. Claroty’s zone-based policy recommendations and unique planning capabilities leveraged within the Fortinet Security Fabric via our unique FortiManager integration enable tangible risk reduction and remediation action, at scale, that dramatically accelerate OT segmentation and policy enforcement projects. As a partner in Fortinet’s Open Ecosystem, we’re able to drive key integrations that harness these capabilities to deliver a faster time to value for our customers.”
– Stephan Goldberg, Vice President of Business Development, Claroty

“With Fortinet, we centralized everything and brought all the management information we need into a single pane of glass. That enables us to quickly see what is happening across all our different units. Our Fortinet management systems consolidate information and do a good job of filtering through all the noise on the network to quickly identify issues. That streamlines my team’s processes, so we do not have to keep adding bodies just to look at logs.”
– Dustin Fischer, Director of IT, Wunderlich-Malec Engineering

“The [Fortinet Security] Fabric allows us to operate a lean team as we do not need a large staff to manage our security and network infrastructure. It drives efficiency through a single-pane-of-glass approach to device management and the ability to centrally configure policies and push them out to all devices. This is particularly important when incorporating new locations, as we believe it will help us easily scale in the years ahead.”
– Chad Logan, Senior Director of IT and Applications, McPherson Companies