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Resilience must be built into IoT strategy, says Wireless Logic
As industries increasingly rely on connected devices to keep their operations running, network resilience has never been more important. IoT is everywhere, connecting smart grids in energy infrastructure, machinery in manufacturing and patient monitoring devices in healthcare. With connected devices embedded in so many essential services, avoiding downtime as a result of a cyberattack is critical.
We talk to Iain Davidson, Head of Product Marketing at Wireless Logic, about why organizations must build resilience directly into their IoT strategy.
“Organizations must shift their mindset from if a cyberattack will happen to when. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we must recognize the IoT must have resilience built in at every stage. While good security hygiene helps prevent cyberattacks, resilient-by-design is the best long-term habit, shaping system reliability, availability and compliance before things can go wrong.”
“AI is making cybercrime faster and easier to scale and regulation is evolving to match these new threats. Most recently, the first stage of the Cyber Resilience Act (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act) took effect, introducing reporting obligations for manufacturers that calls for greater visibility and insight into the security of their products with digital elements. However, regulatory compliance is not an all-encompassing solution; resilience requires looking beyond it to how breaches are detected and contained across the wider system.”
“Security must not be retrofitted. As IoT deployments scale across critical infrastructure, organizations must embed continuous visibility across all assets, implement multi-vendor incident response plans and design with resilience as a priority to avoid damaging, costly outages.”