Supporting your growth. Securing your Journey.

Precision manufacturing processes

In the most complex pharmaceutical landscape, it’s imperative there is limited disruption to processes all along the value chain - from R&D, testing, approval, manufacturing, QA, distribution, logistics and dispensing. With aging and vulnerable manufacturing infrastructure not being patched for years, the onboarding of new partners and geographically spread manufacturing sites, means steps must be taken to secure the processes from end to end.

Automated supply chain and manufacturing

Digitising and protecting the supply chain results in improved communications, quicker analysis and a faster time to market. By reducing the time between phases, pharma can adapt or fail the development of a drug much faster and get the approved drug to market much more efficiently, while ensuring that everyone along the supply chain is kept informed.

Faster regulatory compliance

Access to data is becoming more complex because data repositories are multiplying and spread across jurisdictions. Most jurisdictions use different standards to record data with varying rules regarding its use and exchange. As a result, data is not clean and is hard to find. Regulators are also finding the rate of change difficult to keep up with especially in establishing a framework overseeing medical technologies. Both the sector and regulators must put in place a structure to manage and meet regulatory challenges across borders without compromising delivery.

Connected medicine

The trend for connected medicine and the need to bring together all its stakeholders to deliver a more customer-centric approach means the industry needs to adapt. Capturing, processing and unlocking data for deeper insights makes for better informed decisions and a more complete understanding of the patient, the medical condition and the outcome of the medicine. In a world where positive outcomes are expected, this improves decision making and enables the treatment to be tailored to the patient’s needs.

Integrated value and supply chain

To be effective, supply chains need to be data driven and monitored in real time. Most efficient systems have end-to-end visibility and control built into them to provide stability, reliability and the scale and speed needed to deliver the demands that a connected and patient-centric ecosystem requires.

Cloud and blockchain

An increase in data means more space is needed for the secure storage and exchange of data. This usually means using cloud or blockchain.

• Blockchain, a highly secure distributed database, has many useful applications in pharma such as supply chain management, serialisation and document management (for the storing and exchanging of patient records as well as potential new drug details).
• Cloud has the agility, flexibility and scalability needed for the storage and analysis of large data sets.

Packaging

With manufacturing being outsourced more frequently, the provenance of the medicine is paramount. Mechanisms need to be put in place to ensure that the medicine delivered is real and has the traceability to confirm it is not a counterfeit product.

New compounds

With new combinations of drugs, we need to ensure the identified compounds are not harmful to the environment during their use in the medicine. In many jurisdictions the origin of a drug or compound needs to be proven. In a complex supply and manufacturing chain we need to be able to show the various checks have been carried out and verified.

Protect investments

With its agile design and approach, Fortinet Security Fabric works with your organisation’s technology and business requirements without the need to rip and replace. This minimises disruption, safeguards any investments already made and protects your innovation strategy.

Integrating networking and security

Fortinet’s Security-Driven Networking provides secure high-performance connectivity between users, applications and devices, all the way to the cloud. It brings together network infrastructure and security architecture, enabling the network to scale and change without compromising security operations.

Access anywhere

With our Zero Trust Access approach to security, pharma companies can control who and what is accessing their network. Feel secure that your users can access the network and applications wherever they are working, and on any device, without risk.

Agile cloud security

Unlock your cloud strategy with a consistent framework for any cloud platform. Automation, visibility and an open integration platform provide the required agility across all major public and private cloud providers and technologies. It means your technology strategy can continue to evolve with no vendor lock-in.

Secure Biopharma 4.0

The Fortinet Security Fabric connects manufacturing environments with IT systems and supply chain providers - and keeps the entire ecosystem secure. It delivers the speed, simplicity and visibility you need from protection to detection to response.

Simplifying network and security operations

Fortinet’s Fabric Management Center covers both network and security risk management. Get a comprehensive view of your entire network so threats can be identified and removed quickly.

Improving compliance management

Manage and monitor compliance with Fortinet’s Fabric Management Center. It helps to increase application availability and saves IT resources by closing the skills gap.

360 degrees of threat intelligence and protection

FortiGuard Labs offer real-time protection against 100 billion security events every day. It delivers automated, proactive and actionable threat intelligence giving you the confidence to feel completely covered. FortiGuard Labs also develops and maintains one of the most effective Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems that protects against sophisticated and advanced threats.

Data protection

Fortinet Security Fabric ensures data can be safely manipulated with high performance technology. It works by preventing data loss and theft, and safeguarding data integrity by:

• Protecting data where it is stored or located (e.g. in the cloud or a device)
• Protecting data while it is being transferred (e.g. wifi)

Moving sustainable agendas forward

Fortinet’s ASIC product-based approach reduces power consumption across your entire network. It drives costs efficiencies and contributes to carbon neutrality initiatives with networking and security converged onto one platform.

Not just a technology partner

We are a partner in all aspects of your security strategy - from people to processes. We provide security awareness and training for your teams through our Network Security Expert (NSE) training programme.

As a collaborative partner, we can integrate with your technology and future investments via our Open Ecosystem of fabric partners. Partners enable complementary solutions that provide improved security, simplified operations and better support to our customers.