Cyber Security: Essential for Protecting Assets and Fulfilling Demand

摘要

Manufacturers are increasingly integrating their control systems with Intranets that are themselves connected to the Internet. This increased integration is fully intentional, as it allows decision-makers in the respective companies to receive highly valuable production data in real-time and in highly usable forms. Unfortunately, it also makes it easier for someone to inject malicious code into a control system from thousands of miles away. If this happened, a plant's operations could be severely disrupted—with all the consequences of production loss, damage to customer relationships or even theft of intellectual property.