Fortinet Ruggedized

Overview

Expand the most comprehensive platform for OT security

Fortinet is proud to announce the latest innovations for the industry's most comprehensive platform for OT security. Our unique solutions include new rugged products for secure networking in harsh environments, new secure operational solutions for OT, and an expanding set of OT ecosystem partners .

Power-saving performance for protecting both OT and IT infrastructure

Powered by purpose-built ASICs, FortiGate Rugged NGFWs offer a cost-effective solution that simplifies operations and meets all the essential security requirements out-of-the-box, while delivering top performance. Our Secure Networking approach means features like SD-WAN, switching and wireless, and 5G are integrated. FortiGate Rugged NGFWs reduce cost and complexity by eliminating point products and consolidating security capabilities in industrial environments.

Reliable and Compact Appliances Built for the Most Demanding Environments

Fortinet rugged products offer enterprise-grade threat protection for securing crucial industrial networks against cyberthreats. From ruggedized firewalls with dual 5G modems, to switches, access points, and 5G/LTE gateways, Fortinet rugged products comply with over 70 global industry standards and meet the security needs of a wide range of industrial applications and protocols. Ideal for OT organizations, this cost-effective and easy-to-deploy solution securely interconnects critical infrastructure and users.

Converged IT/OT security for greater visibility and control

FortiGate Rugged NGFWs run on the FortiOS operating system, the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric. As an extension of the Fortinet Security Fabric, the OT Security Platform provides OT-specific solutions including ruggedized secure networking. This enables unified networking and security across all IT and OT networks to ensure consistent policies and coordination. The FortiGate Rugged series gives you control over all connected devices, applications, and users. The FortiGuard OT Security Service provides specialized intrusion prevention system (IPS) signatures to detect and block malicious traffic targeting applications and devices in manufacturing, plant, safety, and other operational technology (OT) environments.

Features and benefits

Alignment with industry standards

Helps OT organizations secure critical assets across the Purdue model hierarchy.

Built for harsh environments

Offers durability against harsh conditions like extreme temperature, humidity, shock, & vibration

Security Fabric integration

Share actionable threat intelligence across your entire attack surface to ensure consistency in end-to-end security.

AI-powered security

Enables fast detection and response to known & unknown threats to safeguard network, devices, data.

Central management & automation

Supports large-scale deployment & efficient operations with intuitive, central cloud management

Lower total cost of ownership

ShareIncludes SD-WAN & ZTNA for faster and more cost-effective connectivity.

Use Cases

Industrial network security

Designed to protect critical networks and applications in harsh environments without compromising performance.

Network segmentation

Acts as a conduit among zones and offers a secure pathway for communication to prevent unauthorized access to critical OT assets.

Converged platform

Gives you protection and visibility across sites with easy management of applications, devices, and access in a single dashboard.

Secure SD-WAN

Delivers superior quality of experience and effective security posture for work-from-anywhere models, SD-Branch, and cloud-first WAN.

Universal ZTNA

Controls access to applications no matter where the user is or where the application is hosted for universal application of access policies.

Secure IoT & Mobility

Connects and secures remote IoT sites such as ATMs, kiosks, pop-ups, and fleet vehicles, with ruggedized 5G/LTE products from Fortinet.

Industry Analyst Validation

Fortinet Named Sole Leader in 2023 IT/OT Network Protection Platforms Navigator™

Fortinet has been recognized as the sole “Leader” in the 2023 IT/OT Network Protection Platforms Navigator™. The OT-aware Fortinet Security Fabric platform includes integrated cybersecurity solutions to protect the wide variety of industrial and cyber-physical systems across the entire Purdue Model. Fortinet continues to increase coverage of regional and vertical regulations and standards and is outpacing average OT market-share growth.

Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study reveals 318% ROI and $10.6M in cost benefits achieved with the Fortinet Data Center cybersecurity solution

In addition to a significant ROI, key results from the 2023 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting include improved networking and security performance, increased networking and security team efficiencies, end-user productivity gains, notable cost savings, and better sustainability.

Fortinet is a Gartner Leader for Network Firewalls

We feel FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls deliver the industry’s best ROI, provide AI/ML-powered threat protection, and support the convergence of networking and security.

With all features and functions built on a single operating system, FortiOS, organizations have access to consistent functionality across all solutions and form factors, including appliances, virtual environments, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).