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Integrated OT Risk Management from Fortress & Industrial Defender

Fortifying OT from Cyber Asset to Supply Chain.

As critical infrastructure faces a wave of AI-discovered cyber threats and increasing regulatory scrutiny, the ability to understand your cyber assets — what they are, how they impact operations, whether they are secure, what is running on them, and where supply chain or third-party risks may be tied to them — is essential.

Relying on outdated BOMs or part lists, or pulling data from disconnected databases to understand what is in your environment, leads to gaps and inaccuracies that can greatly increase your risk. Industrial Defender and Fortress Information Security offer an integrated solution that drives visibility for security and operations teams to see the full picture of risk across their environment.

Together, Fortress and Industrial Defender deliver a comprehensive approach to securing operational technology (OT) environments from the inside out — across asset, network, and supply chain layers, and throughout the asset lifecycle.

Integrated Solution

Fortress Vulnerability Management with Industrial Defender Asset Intelligence & Risk Context

Continuous Vulnerability Management

Fortress operationalizes vulnerability management for critical infrastructure — continuously correlating assets and their components to the vulnerabilities and threats that affect them, and orchestrating the workflow that moves each finding from discovery to prioritization to resolution. Powered by AI, the Fortress Platform delivers a sophisticated, automated approach to managing the full vulnerability management lifecycle at the tempo the threat demands.

Operational Asset Intelligence

Industrial Defender delivers the asset intelligence and risk context that makes vulnerability prioritization operationally meaningful. Using any querying methodology — passive, active, or hybrid — Industrial Defender builds a complete, accurate picture of every OT asset and its configuration. Critically, Industrial Defender goes beyond inventory to assign risk using both automated inputs (vulnerability count, configuration exceptions from baseline, asset health) and human intelligence inputs (asset criticality, physical location, external connectivity). Without this operational context, vulnerability scoring is disconnected from the reality of how assets are deployed and what they protect.

Supply Chain to Endpoint

Together, these solutions deliver a comprehensive view of OT risk — from your supply chain, through to the endpoint device asset itself. For example, the integrated solution gives you the depth and breadth to not only identify a vulnerability hidden in a software library, compiled into a specific firmware version, but also trace it to every other asset in your environment running that same firmware across your organization or enterprise.

A Bilateral Advantage

Industrial Defender and Fortress work together to unify asset intelligence and risk context with vulnerability correlation, SBOM analysis, and third-party risk insights. The interdependency is bilateral: Industrial Defender’s operational risk context makes Fortress’s vulnerability prioritization actionable; Fortress’s AI-driven correlation gives Industrial Defender’s asset data threat relevance. Together, they deliver a level of OT risk management that neither can achieve alone.

How It Works

Industrial Defender and Fortress Information Security capabilities are integrated through an open, RESTful API — enabling seamless data sharing and correlation across platforms, and enrichment of OT risk insights.

Asset Intelligence & Risk Context

Complete and accurate OT asset inventory — supporting passive, active, and hybrid querying methodologies to assess every asset across the OT network
Deep configuration details — software and firmware versions, open ports and services, firewall rules, patch levels, user accounts, and system state
Automated risk scoring derived from vulnerability count, number of configuration exceptions from baseline, and overall asset health — continuously updated as conditions change
Human intelligence inputs — asset criticality, physical location, and external connectivity — providing the operational context that separates meaningful risk prioritization from generic scoring
Monitoring and alerting on system changes, anomalous traffic, and unusual activity — with active detection capabilities that go beyond passive network observation
Framework and standard agnostic compliance coverage — leading with NERC CIP and extending across CIS18, IEC 62443, NIST CSF, NIS2, AESCSF, TSA Pipeline, OTCC, QCF, and more, with audit-ready reports for each

Vulnerability Management

Continuous vulnerability intelligence across the OT asset estate — firmware, software components, and embedded libraries
SBOM generation, ingestion, and analysis at the component and library level, including NAESAD coverage for the energy sector
AI-driven susceptibility scoring correlating newly disclosed vulnerabilities to the specific assets and components deployed in your environment
Threat-informed prioritization — ranking findings by real-world exploitability and operational impact, not generic CVSS
End-to-end NERC CIP compliance coverage, including CIP-007, CIP-010, and CIP-013
Remediation workflow and case management, with auditable evidence of action
Customizable, actionable dashboards for continuous vulnerability and risk management across the OT environment

Security

Prioritization grounded in operational reality

When a new vulnerability is disclosed, the integrated solution identifies every affected asset in the OT environment in minutes. Industrial Defender’s risk context — combining automated scoring across vulnerability count, configuration exceptions, and asset health with operator-defined inputs on criticality, location, and connectivity — tells Fortress’s AI exactly where to focus. The result is prioritization grounded in operational reality, not generic severity scores. Security and operations teams move from weeks of manual correlation to a continuous, evidence-backed workflow. CISOs get the board-level visibility they need; compliance and operations teams get the actionable detail to execute.

Compliance

End-to-end NERC CIP in a single platform

The integrated solution delivers end-to-end NERC CIP compliance coverage in a single platform — from asset categorization (CIP-002) through electronic security perimeter (CIP-005), systems security management (CIP-007), configuration and vulnerability assessment (CIP-010), and supply chain risk management (CIP-013). Audit evidence is captured automatically and is defensible to regulators without services-heavy workarounds.

What does the Industrial Defender + Fortress integration actually do?

It connects Industrial Defender’s OT asset intelligence to Fortress’s AI-driven vulnerability correlation through an open API. When a vulnerability is disclosed, the integration automatically maps it to every affected asset and prioritizes response using real operational risk context, not a generic severity score.

Which asset data collection method does this rely on?

Any of Industrial Defender’s three collection methods — Passive Monitoring, IDC agentless active collection, or Agent — can feed the integration. Most environments use a mix, matched to each zone’s constraints.

What compliance frameworks does this support?

The integration delivers end-to-end NERC CIP coverage today, including asset categorization, electronic security perimeter, systems security management, configuration and vulnerability assessment, and supply chain risk management, with audit evidence captured automatically.

How long does deployment take?

Industrial Defender deployments typically go live in under four weeks. Since the Fortress correlation layer connects through an existing API, joint customers don’t need a separate lengthy rollout.

Do we need to replace our existing asset inventory or vulnerability tools?

No. The integration is additive — it connects Industrial Defender’s asset intelligence with Fortress’s vulnerability correlation so the two work together, without ripping out existing infrastructure.

Is the integration available now?

Yes. The integrated solution is available today to joint customers of Industrial Defender and Fortress Information Security.

Integrated OT Risk Management from Fortress & Industrial Defender