Weekly newsletter of Dr. Ir Johannes (JD) Drooghaag - Issue #10

It has been a while since I heard “don’t try to solve factory challenges with office solutions” the first time. Several decades to be precise, but it is still a valid rule and every now and then I hear myself saying it to some of the cloud advocates who haven’t quite understood industrial environments yet. …

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One of my favorite projects is also a wonderful use case to analyze if Industrial Cloud is feasible. With my background in the automotive industry and industrial automation, it should be no surprise that this relates to car part manufacturing. After joining AWS re:invent as analyst where I focused on Industrial Machine Learning and Cloud …

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Manufacturing and Infrastructure are driven by long-term investments and matching depreciation of technology and equipment. Industrial Equipment which is older than the specialists operating them is not uncommon. At the same time, cyberthreats are evolving in unprecedented pace. Impact and complexity of cyberthreats continues to grow and this trend will not change. When we realize …

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Around 80% of our global manufacturing capacity and infrastructure was not build in this century and that is a good thing. Long term investments mean commitment and a perspective of growth and stability. And it can also become a bad thing when we fail to ensure Cyber Security for the Industrial Control Systems. The challenges …

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A cyber incident will happen. Plan and prepare accordingly! There are two phases in a cyber incident that influence the duration and impact. First there is of course the type of attack and how sophisticated it is. Although we must do everything possible to prevent a cyber incident, it is hardly possible to guarantee that …

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After being celebrated as a technical skill for many years, Cyber Security is finally getting recognized as a crucial soft-skill. It is time we develop that soft-skill! For many years the focus of cybersecurity initiatives has mainly been on technology, which is of course important but does not cover the entire bandwidth of challenges and …

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Three basic elements of cybersecurity, which are also known as the foundation or cornerstones of cybersecurity, are by far the most effective and simple measures to protect organizations and infrastructure against cyber threats. Without these basic elements, the implementation of more advanced concepts like ZERO trust are not possible, and in fact, don’t make any …

Patching, segmentation, and identity/access control are by far the most effective and simplest of all cyber security measures. Read More »

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