Security News > 2022 > June > Digital twins are moving into the mainstream

"Our research reveals that digital twin deployments are being driven by both top and bottom lines, as well as safety, sustainability and brand reputation," the Reflecting Reality - Digital Twins: Adding Intelligence to the Real World study said.

Operators can input changes into the digital twin and have those changes reflected in the real world or real-world inputs can be represented in the digital twin alerting operations teams to potential problems with shipments, machines, production, business processes and the like.

"Digital twins allow organizations to improve on a number of metrics, such as costs, operational efficiency, turn-around times and sustainability. Our research shows that organizations have realized a 13% decrease in costs, on average, across the various use cases of digital twins and a 15% increase in operational efficiency," the report said.

Because digital twins take in vast amounts of data from systems across an organization and its partners, cybersecurity is a serious concern, the report said.

Because communication between digital twins and the systems that it interacts with is bi-directional, hackers who gain control of a digital twin can wreak havoc, taking over control of real-world systems, manipulating or stealing sensitive data and/or introducing malware that can spread to other systems.

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