Manufacturing industry overwhelmed by innovative threat actors

2020-11-19 05:00

The research findings point to an industry whose security teams are seeing the IT and OT environments converging at a rapid pace.

Manufacturing organizations are struggling to safeguard OT assets as they are using the same tools to safeguard their IT infrastructure as they are for OT. As a result, IT teams can't keep up with growing volumes of security data or the increasing number of security alerts.

"While organizations have deployed numerous technologies for threat detection and response, the data indicates that they are overwhelmed by growing volumes of security data, visibility gaps, and a lack of staff and skills."

As the IT/OT attack surface grows, security teams are spread thinner as they try to keep pace with operations tasks such as threat detection, investigation, incident response, and risk mitigation.

"This research shows that manufacturing organizations are experiencing real challenges when it comes to threat detection and response, particularly for specialized OT assets that are critical for business operations," said Ori Bach, CEO of TrapX Security.

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