The oil and gas industry involves multiple stages with their own unique challenges around availability, reliability and resiliency. This fragmentation, coupled with an ever-shifting regulatory environment, means that operators and the teams tasked with securing operations must balance the needs for resilience with the operational realities of the assets. What works for a refinery or a gas plant does not work for an upstream well, or a pipeline.

For environments like this, traditional Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions are not enough – backup and recovery providers take too long to enable a recovery, and high availability solutions bring with them both cyber threat and human error concerns due to lack of isolation.

The Fortress platform provides solutions for the needs of specialized oil and gas environments. With Fortress, all stages of production can get a secondary, isolated failover environment to run their critical industrial control systems (whether at the upstream or midstream SCADA level or the plant-based DCS/MES/Historian level).  The Fortress platform’s dual enclave-based design guarantees that neither human error, asset failure, nor site-wide cyber attack can induce issues with the failover system, and that both visibility and control are seamlessly maintained for operations, regardless of issues with the primary control system’s status.

On-top of the failover and recovery elements Fortress platform can also provide operational flexibility on operational assets. The secondary environment allows for more flexible patching schedules, enabling operations to continue even during software maintenance periods. Additionally, Fortress can provide a more flexible and cost-effective environment for securely sharing and viewing asset-level data throughout the organization.

Fortress provides all of this while ensuring clients only need to build out enough compute to run core industrial systems. This keeps capital expenditure costs down to a fraction of the cost of traditional high availability.