The Threat Landscape
Today, manufacturing businesses operate on a complex mix of legacy systems and connected devices spanning Information Technology (IT), Internet of Things (IoT), and Operational Technology (OT). Threat actors exploit this to gain a foothold and spread, leveraging manufacturers’ aversion to downtime to extort ransom payments. Moreover, most of these threats, including those targeting OT, originate in a manufacturer’s IT environment, making it critical for manufacturers to embrace cybersecurity best practices, such as zero trust, to ensure operational continuity.
Cyberattacks Against Manufacturers Create Ripple Effects
Without an effective cybersecurity strategy, a cyberattack can impact the manufacturer, overall supply chain, and consumers. The cascade across suppliers leads to compounding delays that result in stolen trade secrets or customer information, causing lost trust and reputational damage. The impact is difficult to overcome, with many choosing to find alternate suppliers, which increases your long-term financial losses beyond the initial cost of recovery.
Zero Trust and Manufacturing
It’s essential to ensure manufacturing processes can run smoothly while infusing zero trust principles into cybersecurity practices to secure complex OT, IT, and connected device environments. By doing so, you can greatly limit your attack surface area while securing IT and OT environments, safeguarding sensitive data, and meeting compliance requirements.
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