Companies involved in the manufacturing business are said to be more exposed to cyber-attacks. This was revealed in a recent Deloitte study, titled Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI).
According to MAPI, 40 percent of manufacturing firms experienced a cyber attack in the last year. Out of them, 38 percent of them suffered over €1 million in damages.
The Deloitte research found that many of the cyber threats experienced by manufacturers were coming from internal employees through accidental phishing attacks, direct wanton abuse of company IT systems, errors and omissions and use of unsecured mobile devices but not restricted to smartphones.
Topping the list of data concerns among manufacturers was client data leakage followed by the unauthorised release of personal information.
The most astonishing fact revealed by the survey was that many manufacturing companies have a disaster recovery plan in place however few of them have it regularly tested and verified. This clearly means that companies are either completely ignoring a data continuity plan in the event of a disaster or turning a blind eye towards the whole area of cybersecurity and business continuity.
Deloitte’s Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation study opened the fact that manufacturing firms were facing risk from 6 key areas which are- Lack of executive and board engagement, intellectual property, industrial controlled systems, connected products, industrial ecosystem, lack of quality IT and human error.
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