New BlackBerry research finds manufacturers increasingly wary of nation state threats

Posted on 20 Apr 2023 by The Manufacturer

Two-thirds of manufacturers believe their environment is too difficult to defend, while 86% admit manufacturing functions are running on outdated and unsupported legacy operating systems.

At Hannover Messe, Germany, BlackBerry Limited yesterday released the BlackBerry Manufacturing Cybersecurity Study with a warning that outdated and unsupported legacy operational technologies (OT) are exposing substantial vulnerabilities for manufacturers facing escalating threats from nation-state attacks. The survey of 1,500 manufacturing IT decision makers across North America, UK, Germany, Japan, and Australia revealed that while many…

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