Fortinet and Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge
Pre-Validated
Cybersecurity Architecture
OT Network Protection and Response Matched with Fault-Tolerant Computing for Easy Deployment in Edge Environments
Executive Summary
Critical OT networks face increasing security threats and must deploy cybersecurity capabilities into previously inaccessible or difficult-to-secure areas, such as remote sites or hazardous environments. Fortinet and Penguin Solutions have partnered to deliver a reliable and characterized cybersecurity architecture hosting the Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) on a Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge platform. This collaboration allows IT teams to extend their cybersecurity protection easily to the edge and OT environments. This significantly reduces deployment time by ensuring consistency, standardization, and enhanced reliability. Rigorous pre-testing ensures top-notch performance, and adherence to best practices and compliance standards provides a consistent security posture.
The Challenge
Securing remote and hazardous locations presents unique challenges. Limited physical security, unreliable connectivity, and harsh environments can complicate installation, maintenance, and response to cyberattacks. Additionally, a lack of on-site IT expertise, specific compliance needs, and higher costs due to remote locations can further add to the burden.
Joint Solution Description
The Fortinet and Penguin Solutions collaboration combines the rugged reliability of the Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge platform with the robust security features of the FortiGate NGFW. This solution ensures easy deployment, seamless application integration, and continuous a protection, all while minimizing downtime and maximizing the long-term value of your investment.
Enhanced cybersecurity posture is extended to the edge
n Simplified deployment: Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge is built for remote locations and harsh environments, simplifying installation compared to traditional IT equipment.
n Reduced on-site IT needs: A FortiGate NGFW hosted on Stratus ztC Edge offers a single pane of glass, with remote management capabilities extending cybersecurity from the enterprise and into previously inaccessible or difficult-tosecure areas.
n Seamless integration: Built-in virtualization enables workload consolidation on the Stratus ztC Edge platform to Fortinet cybersecurity alongside multiple OT and IT applications on a single HA/FT platform.
Solution Components
n Fortinet FortiGate NGFW
n Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge
Solution Benefits
n Secure on the edge: FortiOS on the Class I Division 2 certified Stratus ztC Edge extends robust cybersecurity to remote sites and hazardous environments.
n Simplified security, seamless Integration: Built-in virtualization consolidates IT/IIoT/OT applications onto a single platform.
n Continuous availability, zero downtime: Inherent redundancy eliminates downtime, continuously protecting applications and data from cyberattacks 24x7.
n Faster deployment, easier management: FortiOS on the Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge is performance-tested for easy deployment, operation, and maintenance.
Enhanced security and reliability
n Continuous protection: Inherent high availability and fault tolerance within Class I Division 2 certified Stratus ztC Edge, combined with the FortiGate NGFW, ensures minimal downtime and constant protection for your critical applications and data.
n Robust cybersecurity: The FortiGate NGFW brings its advanced security features like intrusion prevention and threat intelligence to the edge, strengthening overall security posture.
n Extended life cycle: The Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge has a long product life cycle (8+ years), ensuring the platform stays reliable for years to come, minimizing the need for frequent upgrades and replacements.
Overall, the combined solution offers a user-friendly way to implement robust cybersecurity at remote and hazardous locations, ensuring the smooth operation of critical applications.
Solution Components
Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge provides teams with a zero-touch, secure, and highly automated edge computing platform, purpose-built for edge environments. Its self-protecting and self-monitoring features drastically reduce unplanned downtime and ensure the continuous availability of business-critical applications.
Fortinet FortiGate NGFWs protect data, assets, and users across today’s hybrid environments. Built on patented Fortinet security processors, FortiGate NGFWs accelerate security and networking performance to effectively secure the growing volume of data-rich traffic and cloud-based applications. FortiGate NGFWs, backed by FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, help organizations prevent cyberattacks and mitigate security risks with consistent, real-time protection and responses against even the newest and most sophisticated threats.
Use Case: Secure Industrial Automation and Control
Oil and gas operators face the dual requirements to meet evolving cybersecurity mandates as well as to modernize industrial automation infrastructure for operational efficiency. The combined Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge computing platform with Fortinet enables them to deploy a hardened IT infrastructure that provides high availability and fault tolerance for control applications, and deployment at the industrial edge.
Figure 1: FortiGate NGFW hosted on the Stratus ztC Edge provides the protection that detects and responds to threats for the solutions that are installed on the same platform.
By combining Penguin Solutions Stratus ztC Edge with the Fortinet FortiGate NGFW and related cybersecurity tools, organizations achieve cybersecurity and automation initiatives in a single platform, manageable by OT.
Combined Stratus ztC Edge and Fortinet solution supports:
n Built-in fault tolerance and virtualization
n VMs for HMI SCADA
n Embedded Fortinet firewalling, network segmentation, and threat detection
n Compliance with TSA cybersecurity mandates
This integrated architecture allows oil and gas companies to secure their control systems at the edge while maintaining high availability and reducing both deployment and lifecycle support costs.
About Penguin Solutions
With over two decades of experience as trusted advisors to our valued customers, Penguin Solutions is an end-to-end solutions provider helping solve complex challenges in computing, memory, and LED solutions.
Penguin Solutions designs, builds, deploys, and manages high-performance, high-availability enterprise solutions, allowing customers to achieve breakthrough innovations.
Our Stratus high availability and fault tolerant computing platforms ensure the continuous availability of our customers’ critical applications and data in remote data centers and edge locations.
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