18 July 2024 — 5 min read
Data protection issues in air-gapped factory-floor environments
The downtime costs for highly automated factory-floor environments are some of the world’s highest, estimated at anywhere from $1 million to $10 million per hour, and up. So it should be no surprise that many manufacturing enterprises seek to eliminate the possibility of a network-borne cyberattack by air gapping their factory-floor IT and operational technology (OT) systems.