Revolutionizing Availability for Industrial Control Systems

Fortress provides unprecedented cyber resilience for critical industrial operations.

01 / THE PROBLEM

Industrial Control Systems are Critical but Prone to Downtime

Industrial Control Systems are the brains of industrial processes. However, these monolithic applications are still deeply susceptible to hardware failures, software-related vulnerabilities, operator error—and, increasingly, cyber attacks.

02 / RESILIENCE WITH FORTRESS

Increase uptime and improve reliability

For industrial applications of all types, Fortress provides unparalleled availability for all downtime scenarios, making swapping over and back seamless and safe.

Without

The Industrial Technology Stack at a Glance

Field instruments such as gas valves and temperature sensors (level 0) are paired with simple automation devices (level 1). These devices are supervised and controlled by higher-level software-defined systems at levels 2 and 3.

Without

The Risk at Levels 2 and 3

Industrial Control Systems, located at levels 2 and 3, act as the "brains" of the industrial stack. If they are attacked and successfully compromised—even if devices at Levels 0 and 1 are still functioning—operators can neither see or control the lower level processes and must shut down the site.

Without

Simple Redundancy Isn’t Enough

Even with High Availability (HA) and hardware redundancy for level 2 and 3 applications, lateral movement allows cyber attacks, data corruptions or operator errors to propagate across all systems.

With

A New Approach to Industrial Cyber Resilience

Fortress provides logically-isolated, secure-by-design availability environments that runs “shadow” copies of critical level 2 and 3 applications within purpose-built, slimmed-down Virtual Machines.
.

With

Near-Instantaneous Operational Continuity

If a level 2 or 3 system fails or is compromised, Fortress enables seamless continuity of operator control and visibility without any downtime, dramatically enhancing safety and reliability.

With

Broad usability beyond Cyber Resilience

Fortress isn't just an insurance policy for cyber attacks. Asset owners can use Fortress as a fallback operating environment in the case of an operator error or when they need to patch or upgrade their systems but don't want to halt industrial operations.

VALUE PROPOSITION

Holistic Cyber Resilience with Fortress

Maintain Availability and Continuity
‍in any Failure Scenario

Unlike traditional High Availability systems, Fortress provides logically-isolated, secure-by-design availability environments with purpose-built VMs running critical industrial applications that can be used in the immediate aftermath of any disaster—including a cyber attack.

Seamless Change Management without Operational Impact

In a world of software-controlled industrial processes, upgrading industrial applications necessitates operational downtime. Fortress enables real-time system upgrades and patching without downtime, since operators can use Fortress temporarily while upgrading the primary system.