With the emergence of IoT, increased connectivity within and across cyber and physical systems has enabled smart cities, smart manufacturing, and Industry 4.0. Conversely, this led to growing and escalating cybersecurity risks for industrial companies due to a lack of prioritization and insufficient investments into the necessary ICT infrastructure and cybersecurity protection.
Globally, government and industry regulators mandate organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity measures. The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) now considers cyber vulnerabilities an existential business risk and requires companies to disclose the potential cybersecurity issues under the company’s risk factors or otherwise risk fines. At the same time, critical infrastructure and manufacturing sites are becoming increasingly attractive targets to hackers due to lackluster security protocols, as evident by the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack.
Although experts in IT and OT fields often hold different opinions and perspectives, organizations and senior management in industrial companies will need to rethink and realign their cybersecurity strategy to survive and thrive in a digitally connected world.
Join this webinar to learn:
- Key cybersecurity Mega Trends impacting industrial automation and manufacturing organizations around the world.
- Why is OT security important? Looking at cases across the markets, what are key imperatives for your organization today?
- Organizational challenges in adopting cybersecurity under industrial environments.
- How to protect your organization’s data privacy and security while leveraging the benefits of IoT and Industry 4.0.
