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BSI CYBERSECURITY

Cybersecurity

challenges in the 4th Industrial Revolution
of business , OT arguably faces security challenges even more grave than classic enterprise IT . You can ' t take all the best practices from enterprise IT and simply apply them to that industrial world ; they simply won ' t work .” The advent of 5G wireless and other trends is starting to bring far more digital intelligence into business production processes . As the Internet of Things ( IoT ) meets legacy OT , an entirely new set of vulnerable targets emerge . Although many organisations are reviewing their practices in light of their pandemic experiences to recommit to digital transformation , these vulnerabilities could have a much greater impact . Mark further adds that when it comes to industrial IT , factors like confidentiality , integrity and availability flip on its head . The two key priorities in

“ Although the cloud is more advanced today , data breaches do still occur . This is often due to a lack of understanding of Cloud architecture and awareness of responsibility for securing data ”

MARK BROWN GLOBAL MANAGING DIRECTOR , CYBERSECURITY AND INFORMATION RESILIENCE , BSI
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