53% of manufacturing organizations say operational technology is vulnerable to cyberattacks
TrapX Security released findings of a research survey in partnership with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The survey asked 150 cyber and IT professionals directly involved in security strategy, control and operations within manufacturing organizations about their current and future concerns.
The research findings point to an industry whose security teams are seeing the information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments converging at a rapid pace. Yet manufacturing organizations are struggling to safeguard OT assets as they are using the same tools to safeguard their IT infrastructure as they are for OT. As a result, IT teams can’t keep up with growing volumes of security data or the increasing number of security alerts. They lack the right level of visibility and threat intelligence analysis and don’t have the right staff and skills to handle the cybersecurity workload. Consequently, business operations are being disrupted and cyber-risk is increasing as more than half of the manufacturing organizations surveyed have experienced some type of cybersecurity incident on their OT systems in the last 12 months taking weeks or months to remediate.