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The IIoT promises to transform industrial processes – but we must ensure that safeguards are built-in from the outset, says Airbus CyberSecurity’s Jörg Schuler.
OPTIMISTS TEND TO SEE THE RISE OF THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IIOT), AND ITS CLOSE RELATION OPERATIONAL Technology (OT), as one of the most signifi cant business trends of the early 21st Century. Analysing the concept, I can understand where the rosy glow comes from. Take the best parts of IoT – connecting a range of devices, sensors and equipment to the Internet - and add the sort of Machine-to-Machine communication and automation needed for industrial processes – and you have segued into the next big industrial wave. In Germany, Europe’s biggest industrial economy, the harnessing of IIoT to digital automation has developed far enough for it to routinely be described as a ‘fourth industrial revolution’, the so- called ‘Industrie 4.0’ (a.k.a., ‘Manufacturing 4.0’) strategic initiative enthusiastically promoted by the German Government. It’s an alluring prospect of more integrated supply chains, real-time feedback on processes, problems and inventory, where even the smallest elements of any industrial system would become interconnected. Effi ciency would be transformed, problems and failures reduced, in a world where systems might eventually look after
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themselves without the need for expensive human intervention and management. This IIoT is IoT done right for numerous industries on which the digital economy ultimately depends. However, facing this is a more pessimistic – some
would argue more realistic – way of understanding the arrival of IIoT and OT as delivering a new set of digital vulnerabilities that stand in danger of being underestimated in the same way that consumer IoT risks were in the early years. You don’t have to be an outright pessimist
to
agree that the security sceptics have a point – the more devices, equipment, sensors and applications you connect to one another, the greater the interdependency and sensitivity to disruption. If the last 20 years of cyber crime’s rise has taught us one thing, it’s surely that there are now just as many forces that might seek to disrupt IIoT and OT as benefi t from it. Because Industry 4.0 and IIoT is still emerging,
and a lot of technology and standards have yet to be fi nalised, working out how it might be vulnerable to cyber attack isn’t easy. What we know we from recent cyber attacks aimed at manufacturing should
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