Given its focus on innovation, the digitisation of factories with and an increasing reliance on connected products (IOT), manufacturing is an industry that is highly vulnerable to cyber risk.
From a broad perspective, manufacturing is seen as lagging other sectors such as financial services and retail in the maturity of enterprise cyber risk programs (Deloitte, 2020).
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the digitisation of factories and artificial intelligence technology are making OT networks ever more connected and communicative, particularly with regard to IT networks.
And so you’ll find a combination of infrastructure of differing ages with recent and not so recent network architectures and operating systems, which do not all feature advanced security standards as upgrades are expensive.
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