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EDITOR’S CHOICE


By Christian Borst, EMEA CTO at Vectra AI


the most targeted industry by ransomware in 2021. Last year we witnessed German manufacturer Knauf and Toyota fall victim to ransomware attacks.


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When it comes to defending against ransomware, one of the main problems for manufacturers is that ransomware has evolved and diversified in recent years. Attackers have moved on from simple, fully-automated tactics that are quite straight-forward to prevent, to using more targeted and sophisticated tactics. At the same time, most security teams using the same old tactics to try to prevent ransomware – an approach that is now broken.


It is time for manufacturers to evolve – and that means looking beyond a


he threat of ransom attacks for manufacturers is nothing new, the explosion of new devices and data through Industry 4.0 has created larger attack surface for cyber attackers. In fact, manufacturing was


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