
Imran Husain, Global Chief Internet Information Security Officer at MillerKnoll, spoke about the often underestimated arena of manufacturing. Data backups may be boring, Husain warns, but ignoring them comes at a potential large cost.Manufacturing has long been viewed as slow to adopt new technologies. As Husain describes, for years the sector’s reliance on manual controls and isolated systems shielded it from much of today’s cyber threats. That all changed with the emergence of IoT, putting previously offline levers onto the internet for efficiency and cost savings. With connectivity, however, came vulnerability. “Most did not forecast the types of threat attacks that could happen as a result of these ...