John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet: “This year’s global State of OT and Cybersecurity Report demonstrates that while OT security has the attention of organisational leaders, critical security gaps remain. PLCs designed without security, continued intrusions, a lack of centralised visibility across OT activities and growing connectivity to OT are some of the critical challenges these organisations need to address. Security converged into the OT networking infrastructure, including switches and access points and firewalls, is essential to segment the environment. This, combined with a platform that spans OT, converged OT/IT and IT provides end-to-end visibility and control.”
News summary
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cyber security solutions, today released its global 2022 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report. While industrial control environments continue to be a target for cyber criminals – with 93% of operational technology (OT) organisations experiencing an intrusion in the past 12 months – the report uncovered widespread gaps in industrial security and indicated…
