One of the biggest problems facing manufacturing today is the practice of indiscriminate internetworking. To take advantage of IT/OT integration and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), some manufacturers continue to connect networks together with limited regard to security and the false assumption that minimal security is enough to ward off a cyber attack.
While companies around the world have depended on traditional security methods for over 30 years, modern hackers have learned how to get through them, which is why so many companies are working to update their systems with complex passwords, encryption and the latest anti-virus software. But, as technology continues to get more sophisticated, so too do the attackers that also develop their own equally sophisticated counter technology.