Once upon a time, IT security was a problem purely for the IT department. The attitude still persists in many quarters; one major surveyfound that nearly a third of UK boardrooms, across multiple industries, still felt that cybersecurity belonged in the IT department, rather than at the senior management’s table.
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is gathering pace. Numerous organisations in manufacturing, utilities and other industrial sectors are benefiting from the intelligence generated by embedding connected sensors throughout their environments, whether for proactive equipment maintenance, process streamlining and efficiencies, or even product innovation.
