
Important step towards greater cyber security
The ZVEI welcomes the European "Cyber Resilience Act" and has been advocating horizontal regulation from the manufacturer to the user for years in order to create uniform rules.
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The ZVEI welcomes the European "Cyber Resilience Act" and has been advocating horizontal regulation from the manufacturer to the user for years in order to create uniform rules.
Many companies find it difficult to establish efficient cyber security structures for various reasons. This is the result of a study commissioned by Secunet.

The risk of cyber attacks has increased rapidly in recent years. Internal IT employees are often unable to efficiently prevent an attack or respond adequately to an attack.

In the course of digitalization, there is rightly a lot of talk about cybersecurity. But safety technologies have also made great progress with this development. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Lumme, Product Manager Extreme at Steute Technologies, explains these developments in an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer.

A new study by Trend Micro reveals that 54 percent of companies worldwide are dissatisfied with the maturity of their cyber risk assessment capabilities.

Claroty's new cloud-based cybersecurity platform xDome gives companies added resilience in the operational and cyber areas.

Wibu-Systems, provider of the software protection and licensing technology CodeMeter, supplies manufacturers of standard software as well as companies from the automation and electronics industries.
Digitization and security retrofit
In order to remain competitive, industry must move with the times and digitize both processes and (infra)structures. The opportunities are manifold: manufacturing companies can increase efficiency, save costs, meet growing functional and safety challenges and develop new business models such as entire "industrial services as a service". But what if the equipment used for this cannot be networked appropriately or is inadequately equipped in terms of cyber security?

Disrupted supply chains and hacker attacks: The Russian attack on Ukraine is also being felt by the economy.

The number of cyberattacks has risen rapidly in 2021. With the growing networking and integration of software, operational technology (OT) is also increasingly becoming the focus of attackers.