Fortinet OT Security Architect case studies
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The Fortinet OT Security Architect credential is a specialist certification for security professionals who design, deploy, and operate Fortinet-based defenses for operational technology environments such as manufacturing plants, SCADA/ICS networks, utilities, and oil and gas operations. It suits network security engineers, OT/IT convergence architects, and consultants who already understand FortiGate and FortiOS administration and want to extend that knowledge into industrial networks where availability and safety take priority over convenience. The Fortinet OT Security Architect case studies are 5 cases and about 2,965 words.
1Water Utility Greenfield Segmentation With Cellular Wells
A regional water authority is building a new telemetry architecture across a treatment plant, 14 remote pump stations, and a headquarters control room. Each pump station has a PLC speaking Modbus TCP and a cellular router; a local HMI must remain on-site for manual operation.
701 words, about 4 min2Brownfield Insertion Without Changing PLC Addresses
A food and beverage plant has a flat Layer 2 network between packaging lines and the SCADA room. A FortiGate 100F sits at the IT/OT boundary, but all OT traffic currently bypasses it through an unmanaged switch.
613 words, about 3 min3SOC Flooded by OT Alerts After Fabric Rollout
A discrete manufacturer connected 26 FortiGate Rugged firewalls, 3 FortiDeceptor appliances, and a FortiAnalyzer to a new SOC. Within two weeks, the SOC receives 18,000 alerts per day; 92 percent are Modbus/TCP exceptions and policy denies from a vulnerability scanner.
561 words, about 3 min4Intermittent OPC UA Session Drops After HA Change
An energy company runs a FortiGate 200F HA pair in active-passive between a DCS and a remote HMI over a 40 ms WAN. After adding a new policy for OPC UA on TCP 4840, the HMI loses its session every 4-6 minutes for 20-40 seconds, then reconnects.
575 words, about 3 min5MSSP Multi-Tenant OT Monitoring With Customer SIEMs
An MSSP monitors 12 OT customers using a shared FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, with FortiGate Rugged at each site. Each customer has its own SIEM: 7 use Splunk, 3 use Microsoft Sentinel, and 2 use FortiSIEM.
515 words, about 3 min