Articles Tagged with ''cybersecurity''

China Cybersecurity Law Targets Troves of Data Collected by Electric Vehicles

July 28, 2021

BEIJING—On September 1, a new cybersecurity law in China takes effect that tightens rules on how data can be collected and shared with third parties in the automotive and other industries.

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Cybersecurity and Robotics Systems: Vulnerabilities and Solutions

June 29, 2020

RoboBusiness Direct’s session with Counterpoint Research’s Satyajit Sinha will explore current and future cybersecurity threats to networked robotics systems.

Honda Halts Output at Some Plants After Cyber Attack

June 9, 2020

TOKYO—Honda Motor Co. said a cyberattack has disrupted its internal network and brought some of its assembly plants around the world to a standstill.

Cybersecurity for Today’s Assembly Plant

As assembly plants become more connected to both suppliers and customers, cybersecurity is becoming more important

John Sprovieri

May 15, 2020

On May 12, 2017, hackers launched a "ransomware" cyberattack that would eventually infect 300,000 machines in 150 countries over a three-day period.

Austin Weber

May 10, 2019

Hackers are one of the biggest threats to digital factories and Industry 4.0 initiatives. If conveyors, fastening tools, robots and other equipment are not secure, state-of-the-art production technology can be rendered useless.

ISO Issues Guide to Prevent Cyberattacks

April 17, 2019

GENEVA, Switzerland—he International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has issued new guidelines to help manufacturers prevent cyberattacks and other digital threats that are becoming increasingly common.

MDISS Extends ISA Guidelines to Connected Medical Devices

February 26, 2019

BRONX, NY—The Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium has announced it is developing a set of recommended practices and profiles for securing medical systems based on the normative requirements in the widely used ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards for industrial automation and control systems cybersecurity.

Translating Manufacturing Data for the IIoT

An MES gateway appliance translates, rather than transfers, production line data for secure and reliable exchange with IT databases.

Keary Donovan

January 9, 2018

Capturing and controlling reliable production line data is the great mystery underlying the fulfillment of the promise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Beyond storage solutions, the data that’s available on machines hasn’t been communicated correctly with business systems. Accepted solutions for data exchange create organizational conflicts and security issues that raise difficult barriers.

US Says Critical Manufacturing Industries Are Under Cyberattack

October 23, 2017

WASHINGTON-–The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation warned in a report distributed by email last week that critical manufacturing, nuclear, energy, aviation and water industries have been targeted, along with government entities, in attacks dating back to at least May. The agencies warned that hackers had succeeded in compromising some targeted networks, but did not identify specific victims or describe any cases of sabotage.

Manufacturing and cybersecurity

John Sprovieri

June 6, 2017

On May 12, hackers launched a “ransomware” cyberattack that would eventually infect 300,000 machines in 150 countries over a three-day period.

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