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Smart and secure
Navigating the complexities of manufacturing security in a connected world
Corporations in the manufacturing sector are grappling with a sophisticated and pervasive cyber and operational technology security threat landscape, driven in part by the sector’ s drive towards greater connectivity. This was a key message from a recent webinar hosted by Manufacturing Today, which brought together experts from the industry to dissect the growing security challenge and explore potential solutions. The webinar featured insights from Kathy Olsen, Global Director of Information Security at Packsize International; Tammy Klattz, Chief Information Security Officer at
Trinseo; and Jim Cooper, Director Technology and Cyber Security and Tyler Brown, Product Manager from Pavion, a global security partner and the webinar’ s sponsor.
The evolving threat landscape
While essential for optimizing operations and enabling data-driven decision-making by bringing operational technology data into the enterprise, the industry’ s hunger for connectivity often involves integrating legacy systems never designed with modern security protocols in mind. These assets, built primarily for resilience, speed, and accuracy, often can’ t be easily
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