Fortinet and Nozomi Networks brought joint development to the market

On June 7, 2016 the companies Fortinet also Nozomi Networks announced the joint solution for protection of automated process control systems (ICS).

Developing SCADAguardian and adaptive system of network security of Fortinet, users receive a comprehensive protection of the ICS systems from cyberthreats in which all feasible measures of opposition are implemented: from detection of anomalies in real time before immediate response.

Products of the company Fortinet and FortiGate (2015) UTM devices

The solution combining advantages of function of not intrusive identification of anomalies of Nozomi Networks and technologies of rapid response and network segmentation of Fortinet provides tracking of a status of networks and their protection at higher level, than all products of our companies separately. The complex, working for advancing means of protecting which are the most well-tried remedy of protection of the SCADA/ICS systems among the products presented at the market today became result of our cooperation. Andrea Carcano, founder and CEO of Nozomi Networks company

Networks of the organizations ensuring functioning of crucial objects constantly are exposed to cyber attacks. In process of complication of the attacks and growth of their quantity before the operators of infrastructures of such objects occupied in utility companies, the organizations of transport, the enterprises of mining industry and other spheres there is a problem of elimination of vulnerabilities of security systems which only becomes more difficult over time.

This trend does industrial management systems (ICS) vulnerable for the same cyberthreats, as normal IT networks. While negative effects of violations of security for the majority of IT systems come down to material losses, effects of the attacks on the ICS systems can entail damage/destruction of the equipment, represent threat for national security and human lives.

The majority of technologies at the heart of the ICS systems differ in the increased reliability, however, according to representatives of Fortinet and Nozomi Networks, the accessibility from remote networks is not provided in their solutions. Problem solving of security of the ICS systems requires the means created on the basis of advanced technologies of security of IT networks taking into account the principles of functioning of the ICS systems, their internal procedures and protocols.

Joint work of the companies Nozomi Networks also Fortinet promotes more effective protection of the most important resources of industrial enterprises against encroachments of cybercriminals and negligence of the employees who are inadvertently creating vulnerabilities in the ICS systems.

• The adaptive system of network security of Fortinet supports implementation of the detailed security policies on the basis of such factors as identification of users, applications, arrangement and types of devices.
• The FortiGate firewall implements function of end-to-end segmentation of ICS network which adapts to the sizes of the large ICS systems and ensures their safety thanks to more effective tracking.
• Firewalls of the next generation FortiGate in the protected execution maintain influence of extreme temperatures and perfectly are suitable for deployment in the conditions of severe climate and in dangerous zones where the remote ICS environments quite often are located.