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Cybersecurity
any security model. Many breaches don’ t stem from complex exploits but from a simple yet carefully crafted email. All it takes is one wellmeaning employee clicking the wrong link to open the floodgates.
Cultivating a culture of cyber awareness is just as vital as implementing technical safeguards. Routine training sessions, phishing simulations, and organization-wide practice drills, applying to everyone from interns to senior executives, turn preparedness into second nature. Cybersecurity should be treated less as a siloed function and more like a fire drill – something practiced regularly until the correct response becomes instinctual.
Adapting to an everchanging threat
Cybersecurity resilience isn’ t a finish line to cross; it’ s an ongoing pursuit. Malicious actors evolve, and regulations tighten. For instance, the EU’ s upcoming Cyber Resilience Act will urge manufacturers to integrate baseline protections into a device’ s design and address vulnerabilities across a its entire lifecycle.
The future of resilient industry hinges on a multi-layered approach: secure design at the component level, adherence to international standards, and an embedded culture of vigilance. Drives may serve as a practical starting point, but there’ s a broader lesson to be learnt. Longterm resilience depends on protecting even the most inconspicuous assets when it makes sense, because a single weak point could put the entire system at risk. ■
Patrik
Tikka www. abb. com
Patrik Tikka is Product Market Manager at ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation. By connecting its engineering and digitalization expertise, ABB helps industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable so they outperform. At ABB, it calls this‘ Engineered to Outrun’. The company has over 140 years of history and around 110,000 employees worldwide.
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