APURVA MEHTA CTO AND CO-FOUNDER , VERSA NETWORKS

As Tom Canning , Vice President of Global Sales IoT and Devices at Canonical , explains : “ Businesses need to take a long , hard look at where their burden of security lies , and seriously consider putting trust in IoT applications to support and manage networks . That way , managers can be confident that they ’ re futureproofing through technology , which can automatically remediate any security issues . “ It ’ s no longer a case of one-size-fitsall in the smart era of Industry 4.0 . Device hardware is not static and manufacturers must recognise that the future does not lie in this form of vulnerable hardware , but instead in software-defined capabilities .

“ As attacks continue to accelerate , more action is needed to protect and futureproof the manufacturing industry . It will take investment and a real commitment to change how the industry thinks about security in relation to smart infrastructure . The billions of existing IoT devices were not deployed overnight , and the security problems they inherit will not be fixed overnight , either .”

104 September 2023