Your business was built to produce. Decisions on business processes, organizational structures, supply chains, and plant locations are about optimizing operations to generate more value for your customers. And whether you’re in oil and gas, automotive, pharmaceuticals, or something else, it’s an exciting time to be a producer. Opportunities abound among the increasing agility, digitization, and automation that define the new era of production in our connected society.
Today, the lines between production and business environments have blurred. Production elements that used to be confined to the plant floor are now connected and communicating in all directions—to each other and to other plants, as well as to business decision makers and suppliers. Production now extends beyond your plant’s walls.
The benefits of this growth are profound: the heart of your business is beating faster and more efficiently. Unfortunately, this vital organ—the production environment—now faces more cyber exposure and cyber threats, which means more overall business risk.
When everything connects, your attack surface expands, more vulnerabilities appear, and traditional security controls become insufficient. Health, safety, and environmental concerns also rise. And these challenges will only grow over time. The time to begin securing your connected production environment is now, or you may be facing untold financial and reputational impacts to your business.
