Cybersecurity for Manufacturing

Industrial Resilience: Securing Manufacturing Operations in the Digital Age

If you thought increasing efficiency was your only goal, it’s time to rethink your priorities. The rise of digitalization in industrial operations brings increased flexibility and performance but also creates new security challenges.

Ransomware attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, and the growing use of remote connections all contribute to this increasingly complex threat landscape. Now, it’s not just about boosting productivity—it’s about protecting your systems from threats that could bring everything to a halt.

You’ve already made key investments in security technologies. So, what more do you need? The answer isn’t more tools, it’s about making what you already have work seamlessly together to effectively protect your operations.

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Taking Control: Proactive Security for Manufacturing

Don’t let today’s hidden threats cause tomorrow’s production shutdown. Take control, switch to a proactive stance to build industrial resilience.

Deep Industrial Knowledge: Tailored to Your ICS

We understand that every ICS environment is unique. We ensure seamless integration that fits the specific needs of your operations, with support for over 350 industrial protocols (including proprietary ones)and more than 20 years of experience in deploying OT security solutions. Gain real-time visibility, precise classification, and actionable insights across all asset types—IT, OT, IoT, IoMT, and BAS—at every Purdue level.

Support for Multiple Use Cases: More than Visibility

ICS security isn’t just about monitoring your environment; it’s about taking control of it. Forescout goes beyond visibility by offering dedicated support for vulnerability and risk management, network security, and threat detection and response. Because security isn’t just about seeing the problem—it’s about fixing it and ensuring your operations stay secure.

Flexible Deployment: Security That Adapts to Your Environment

We know deployment can be challenging, especially with constraints on what you can connect or install within your industrial network. That’s why we offer the flexibility of air-gapped, hybrid, or full cloud deployment. With Forescout, you can deploy sensors as appliances, on custom hardware, or as containers. Minimize downtime and simplify installation with flexible discovery options that reduce the need for SPAN ports.

Comprehensive Risk Management: More Than Just Cybersecurity

Security is only part of the risk management equation. When network misconfigurations, unresponsive devices, or dangerous operations put your industrial resilience at risk, focusing on vulnerabilities only isn’t enough. You need a comprehensive approach, one that only a platform like Forescout can provide. A proactive strategy that empowers you to take control, prioritize risks, and take immediate action to minimize your security exposure.

Network Security: Take Control of Access and Segmentation

Managing network security across complex environments is no easy feat, especially when you’re unsure about what to block or allow. With Forescout, we make it effortless enabling you to orchestrate and streamline policies across diverse vendors and IT/OT networks. Our policy engine, paired with customizable templates, lets you simulate policies before enforcement, ensuring you maintain full control and manage attack surfaces effectively.

Contextualize Threats and Uncover Hidden Vulnerabilities

Threat intelligence is not only about understanding threats, it’s also about tracking adversaries, attack techniques, and campaigns specific to your industry. Forescout provides comprehensive protection by identifying and contextualizing risks and vulnerabilities that others miss. With Vedere Labs’ research integrated into the platform, we are able offer tailored risk indicators for manufacturing, including VL-KEVs, keeping you ahead of the evolving threat landscape.

Sample Network Architecture in a Manufacturing Environment

This diagram shows a typical deployment architecture of the Forescout solution for industrial plants and manufacturing deployments. Various sensor deployment options are available, ranging from high-performance appliances for centralized deployments to ruggedized and lighter low-cost models as well as deployment on existing network infrastructure equipment for use in decentralized or segmented networks with limited throughput. Further integrations with the security ecosystem to exchange insights, automate workflows and initiate response to emerging cyber threats are available.

Security Across Manufacturing Verticals

Automotive Food & Beverages Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals

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Manufacturer Customer Confidence

By using the Forescout platform as extensively as possible, not only did we improve our overall network security and visibility but also the effectiveness of our endpoint security investments.

Chris Chou Director of Management Information Systems Ardentec
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When I saw the level of visibility we had in less than three weeks – and data presented in a way that I could present to leadership and partners – that sold me. The speed at which Forescout provides actionable intelligence makes it more valuable than competitive solutions I’ve used in the past.

Chief Information Security Officer Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company
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Flexible. Versatile. Rapid Deployment.

Forescout offers unmatched deployment flexibility to meet the diverse hardware and cloud requirements of modern environments. We ensure compatibility with existing infrastructures while minimizing operational disruption. This versatility makes it an ideal choice for your organization. If you seek robust, scalable solutions tailored to your unique operational and regulatory landscapes, look no further.

The Forescout 4D Platform™ adapts seamlessly with options for on-premises installations, virtual machines and Docker-based containerized deployments, including:

  • Air-gapped systems for high-security needs
  • Forescout appliances that deliver maximum visibility and control
  • Hybrid configurations to connect distributed sites
  • Fully cloud-based operations for scalability

…and Sensors that can be deployed as:

  • Standalone appliances
  • Installed directly on routers and switches for quick implementation without production disruption
  • Or configured as active sensors to query network infrastructure

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