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This agility, the ability to pivot and address critical customer engineering requests quickly, is Fortinet’ s greatest strength, allowing it to produce high-quality, highly functional security products designed for harsh, remote environments.
Tangible results: consolidating security at Toyota Material Handling
The market’ s response to the OT Security Platform has been dramatic, especially as OT risk has elevated into the C-suite’ s area of responsibility over the last four years, a shift documented in the 2025 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity report.
A prime example of this success is Toyota Material Handling North America( TMH). Faced with an aging security infrastructure and a high risk of lateral movement across its network, TMH needed to modernize its systems and converge its IT and OT environments. It deployed FortiGate Next- Generation Firewalls, FortiSwitch, and the FortiDeceptor deception solution, a process that TMH’ s Senior Network Architect Christopher Garcia described as creating a“ single place to go and manage everything”. This deployment resulted in:
■ Significant time savings from consolidated networking and security management
■ Increased visibility of devices across on-premises and remote worker environments
■ A more proactive security posture and increased visibility within their OT environment
Looking ahead: gen AI and security at the device level
The future of OT security will be characterized by aggressive moves in two areas:
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■ Advanced AI: Fortinet is embedding Generative AI( Gen AI) into its SecOps solutions to create a sophisticated OT SOC( Security Operations Center). This includes the development of agentic AI, which will continue to move at light speed to help address the severe personnel deficit compounded in the OT space. The goal is not to eliminate jobs, but to“ elevate humans to do more sophisticated, more precise, more real-time work”
■ Microsegmentation and Deception: For legacy devices that are old and unpatchable, Fortinet is focusing on microsegmentation( compartmentalizing the device) and virtual patching( blocking malicious traffic via policy). Furthermore, Fortinet is working with industrial control vendors to bring a containerized FortiOS and other endpoint concepts to move security directly onto the highly specialized devices themselves
Validation of a trusted OT partner
Winning the Most Innovative Cybersecurity Solution award serves as validation of Fortinet’ s two decades of strategic investment in OT, a space that operated‘ silently’ until recently.
“ To have this award is really that validation of the width and breadth of what has been engineered and available to our customers,” Springer states.“ We are the trusted OT partner, and this award helps validate that.”
It reinforces Fortinet’ s commitment to ensuring its manufacturing clients can immediately embrace the future of Industry 4.0, while also protecting the critical infrastructure that keeps the global economy running. ■
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