Protecting Against ’Dormant Footholds’ and Knowing You’re a Target

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There’s a reason the term industrial-grade is used to express the highest levels of reliability and durability for products. After all, if a material, technology or tool can handle the rigors and demands of manufacturing, chances are it can meet the needs of any other application.

We’ve been through these facts before, but they’re worth repeating. IBM has cited manufacturing as the number one target for cyberattacks. The FBI is expecting a 400 percent increase in phishing attacks. The average ransomware attack demand has nearly tripled in the last two years. It’s fair to say that these attacks will continue to get more complex and occur even more frequently.

So, the strategies and software successfully implemented by manufacturing could serve as a model for countless other industries, institutions and individuals to emulate.

One of the companies looking to enhance all these vitally essential cybersecurity protocols for the most important sector of our global economy is Rockwell Automation. And joining us today from Rockwell is Quade Nettles, Cybersecurity Product Manager at Rockwell Automation.

For more information on the work Rockwell does, you can go to rockwellautomation.com.

To catch up on past episodes, you can go to Manufacturing.net, IEN.com or MBTmag.com. You can also check Security Breach out wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Amazon and Overcast. And if you have a cybersecurity story or topic that you’d like to have us explore on Security Breach, you can reach me at jeff@ien.com

To catch up on past episodes, you can go to Manufacturing.net, IEN.com or MBTmag.com. You can also check Security Breach out wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Amazon and Overcast.

If you have a cybersecurity story or topic that you’d like to have us explore on Security Breach, you can reach me at jeff@ien.com.