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Threat predictions for industrial enterprises 2025
- APTs are focusing on institutions and enterprises involved in new tech research and development as the demand for technical know-how grows.
- Increasing geopolitical turbulence, sanction wars, and the artificial restriction of access to efficient technology is boosting the drive to violate the intellectual property rights of leading enterprises.
- The improper use of AI technologies in the IT and operational processes of industrial enterprises may lead to the unintended disclosure of confidential information and to new security threats.
- Developers of security solutions for Linux have to catch up with solutions protecting Windows infrastructure.
- Insufficient investment of product developers or technology providers in their own information security guarantees that their customers will experience incidents.
- Almost every large industrial organization is its own vendor, multiplying all of the risk factors.
- The availability of so many tools for working with industrial equipment makes developing and implementing an attack on an industrial enterprise’s main production assets significantly easier than just a few years ago.
- Industrial enterprises have automated production, and inventoried and documented systems and processes which make them more vulnerable to attack.
- OT technology developers and suppliers are facing the problem that existing mechanisms built into their products may no longer be effectively safeguarding their intellectual property.
- The connection points of small remote industrial infrastructure facilities typically use inexpensive network equipment, not even designed for industrial use, which can be manipulated as an entry point into the IT or OT network.
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