Workshop Details:

Now Virtual!
This workshop has moved from in-person in Waltham, MA to virtual.

Date
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Time
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Location
Virtual (Zoom)

Lunch While You Learn.
All registered attendees will receive a voucher for a meal provided by Fortinet from a local eatery. An electronic voucher will be provided during the session.

What You'll Learn:

  • Traditional and modern segmentation methods for operational environments including the risks associated with a flat network architecture.
  • Segmentation practices to support compliance with NIST, IEC 62443 and other operational cybersecurity frameworks.
  • Applying and enforcing access control policies with the FortiGate Next Generation Firewall.
  • Dynamically assigning role-based controls to group applications, link data, and limit access to specific groups in order to fortify OT defenses providing fine-grained control that adjusts access based on continuously assessing the trust of devices and users.
  • Configure virtual patching through IPS and industrial protocol visibility and security, plus implementing deception techniques to protect OT.

Presenter:

Edward Lopez
Consulting Systems Engineer (US)
Fortinet

Ed Lopez is a member of Fortinet’s Consulting SE team, specializing in Operational Technology. He returned to Fortinet last year, having previously worked ten years at Fortinet as a VP in Technical Sales and Product Management roles. He has three decades of cybersecurity experience, with companies such as Cisco (Former CCIE), NetScreen, Juniper, and as a Distinguished Engineer at Verizon, as well as a host of startups and his own consultancy firm in a variety in networking and security disciplines, notable Zero-Trust and IIoT. At Fortinet he holds six patents for Firewall Scalability and Software Defined Security. He is a co-author of RFC-8329 ‘Framework for Interface to Network Security Functions’.