Manufacturing under attack: cyber security on the agenda

Posted on 14 Mar 2023 by Joe Bush

The drive towards a more digital future is key to the prosperity of manufacturing. However, digital transformation heralds a new era of connectivity which brings with it rising levels of cyber vulnerability. Indeed, the last few years has seen manufacturing overtake financial services as the most cyber attacked industry. Joe Bush reports.

With over 11 billion IoT devices worldwide in 2021 (rising to an estimated 29 billion by the end of the decade), we’re certainly no strangers to connectivity and the potential dangers of poor cyber security or hacking. While in years gone by the family PC may have been the only internet connected device in the…

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