If you think banks, insurers and credit card companies are the only enterprises that need worry about cybersecurity, think again.
Ransomware attacks increased significantly last year, with criminal groups specifically identifying manufacturers as vulnerable and profitable targets. In 2021, manufacturing accounted for 65 percent of industrial ransomware incidents, according to Peter Vescuso, vice president of marketing at industrial cybersecurity provider Dragos and a member of the Manufacturing Leadership Council, a division of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) focused on digital transformation.