Security News > 2021 > March > Lack of IT-OT collaboration holding back smart factory security projects

61% of manufacturers have experienced cybersecurity incidents in their smart factories and are struggling to deploy the technology needed to effectively manage cyber risk, according to a Vanson Bourne survey of 500 IT and OT professionals in the United States, Germany and Japan.

"Manufacturing organizations around the world are doubling down on digital transformation to drive smart factory improvements. The gap in IT and OT cybersecurity awareness creates the imbalance between people, process and technology, and it gives bad guys a chance to attack." said Akihiko Omikawa, executive VP of IoT security for Trend Micro.

Organizations with a high degree of IT-OT collaboration were more likely to implement technical security measures than those with less cohesion.

There was a particularly big gulf between organizations with high IT-OT collaboration verses those with little to no IT-OT collaboration in the use of firewalls, IPS and network segmentation.

The most common organizational change cited by manufacturers in all three countries was appointing a factory CSO. How to secure smart factories and keep their operations running Prevention by reducing intrusion risks at data exchange points like the network and DMZ. These risks could include USB storage devices, laptops brought into a factory by third parties, and IoT gateways.

Persistence is crucial to protect smart factories from any threat that has evaded prevention and detection stages.

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