For years now, the prevailing attitude among many manufacturers has been that cybersecurity was among their least important concerns. Outside of critical infrastructure, most manufacturers thought the odds of their systems being hacked by outsiders was about the same as them winning the lottery. And though the odds of cyber hacking remain low for most manufacturing organizations, those odds appear to be increasing by the day.
This increase in odds I’m referring to is a result of a growing number of incidents like the WannaCry ransomware attack that affected production at automotive manufacturers Nissan, Honda and Renault as well as PetroChina.
