Cyber Security in Manufacturing

Change is happening right across the manufacturing industry. The need for increased agility and flexibility has created Industry, or the Industrial Internet, where everything, from assembly line machine to delivery truck, is relating to everything else, via the Internet.

In this industrial revolution, the fusion of physical and virtual worlds into global networks of cyber-physical systems is radically changing production control. While this brings benefits – in lower costs and higher efficiency – it also increases the risks.

Manufacturing is a highly lucrative target for their activities, ranging from cyber espionage, such as theft of intellectual property, to sabotage with worms grabbing control of industrial plants.