Industrial cybersecurity resilience in focus as attacks increase

Effective industrial cybersecurity protection improves the resilience of industries, defends investments in automation and control systems and becomes an asset to manage industrial systems, risks and business continuity, a range of industrial cybersecurity specialists explain. The increased connectedness of industrial systems and equipment is helping to improve efficiency, utilisation and maintenance, but also increases their vulnerability to cyberattacks, as the growing attacks on industrial systems highlight, says Check Point South Africa security engineer Justin Berman.