Utility companies need to keep their operations running smoothly and continuously, for both regulatory and safety reasons.  If an Industrial Control System (ICS) goes down at a generation and transmission site for even 5 minutes, it can lead to site-wide failures, shutdown requirements, and compliance concerns – or even, in more extreme cases, potential physical harm.

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 solves these issues.  With Fortress, power utilities get a secondary, isolated failover environment to run their critical Industrial Control Systems (both at the DCS level and at the SCADA/EMS/ADMS level).  The Fortress platform’s novel dual enclave-based design guarantees that neither human error nor site-wide cyber attack can induce any issues with the failover system, and that both visibility and control are seamlessly maintained for operations, even with  issues at the primary control system. This revolutionary approach to ICS availability is secure-by-design using industry leading hardware technology and security measures.  

Moreover, The Fortress platform helps Utility companies address the regulatory requirements in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards. 

Say goodbye to downtime with Fortress.