Why Minutes Matter and Seconds Count in Industrial Cybersecurity


In production operations, steady uptime translates into continuous production, cost efficiency, and the uninterrupted flow of life-sustaining goods and services to customers, such as water, food and energy. Cyberattacks represent one of the highest risks to uptime across industrial sectors today, especially critical infrastructure. Leaders and operators must minimize cyberattack risks to avoid unplanned downtime, with its extensive costs and impacts.

Fortunately, when minutes matter and seconds count, industrial cybersecurity pays off, preserving critical uptime. Rockwell Automation protects your industrial operations using NIST-aligned defenses such as network security, asset inventories, threat detection, incident response, secure remote access, and more. Rockwell Automation’s deep industrial expertise, extensive experience implementing cybersecurity solutions for global organizations, and world-class cybersecurity partnerships can help you safeguard crucial minutes and seconds of uptime – along with all they represent.





Why Minutes Matter and Seconds Count in Industrial Cybersecurity


In production operations, steady uptime translates into continuous production, cost efficiency, and the uninterrupted flow of life-sustaining goods and services to customers, such as water, food and energy. Cyberattacks represent one of the highest risks to uptime across industrial sectors today, especially critical infrastructure. Leaders and operators must minimize cyberattack risks to avoid unplanned downtime, with its extensive costs and impacts.

Fortunately, when minutes matter and seconds count, industrial cybersecurity pays off, preserving critical uptime. Rockwell Automation protects your industrial operations using NIST-aligned defenses such as network security, asset inventories, threat detection, incident response, secure remote access, and more. Rockwell Automation’s deep industrial expertise, extensive experience implementing cybersecurity solutions for global organizations, and world-class cybersecurity partnerships can help you safeguard crucial minutes and seconds of uptime – along with all they represent.





Controlling Downtime Costs from Cyberattack


The infographic outlines specific cybersecurity risks in each of five industries along with practices that can lead to prolonged downtime in the aftermath of cyberattacks. The infographic offers clear defensive strategies to help counteract those risks.






Industrial Cybersecurity Practices that Reduce Downtime


As industrial operators know, unplanned downtime is extremely costly and disruptive. What they may not be as clear about is how extensive downtime from cyberattack can be – along with high costs of potential system and equipment damage, ransoms, recovery, fines, cyber insurance premium increases, supply chain issues and more. This whitepaper addresses the costs and risks, and provides several examples of cybersecurity defenses aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, to help OT leaders mitigate risks of downtime from a cyberattack.





Industrial Cybersecurity Practices that Reduce Downtime


As industrial operators know, unplanned downtime is extremely costly and disruptive. What they may not be as clear about is how extensive downtime from cyberattack can be – along with high costs of potential system and equipment damage, ransoms, recovery, fines, cyber insurance premium increases, supply chain issues and more. This whitepaper addresses the costs and risks, and provides several examples of cybersecurity defenses aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, to help OT leaders mitigate risks of downtime from a cyberattack.






Defending a Water/Wastewater Facility Against a Simulated Cyberattack


The video shows a dramatization of a cyberattack, carried out by a threat actor using a removable device commonly found in industrial operations. Viewers see how this type of attack is accomplished, how it’s discovered, and what steps are taken to respond to the attack and neutralize it.

The narrator describes modern cybersecurity practices and their value throughout the demonstration, such as continuous threat detection, managed Security Operations Center (cSOC) services, incident response, and more. The demo makes it clear: having the right industrial cybersecurity in place ahead of time can save precious minutes and seconds in a cyberattack.






Build Your Own Industrial Cybersecurity Business Case


Cybersecurity budgeting can be difficult. ROI is often predicated on risk reduction and knowing the value of losses cybersecurity can prevent or reduce, which may be unclear without the proper information at hand. This asset can help decision makers understand the value and long-term financial benefit of a modern cybersecurity implementation.

This asset provides actual categories of industrial cybersecurity defenses, example costs, risks of not implementing, and space for cybersecurity champions to load their own cost assumptions. Then it provides the steps and formulas to derive credible ROI calculations.





Build Your Own Industrial Cybersecurity Business Case


Cybersecurity budgeting can be difficult. ROI is often predicated on risk reduction and knowing the value of losses cybersecurity can prevent or reduce, which may be unclear without the proper information at hand. This asset can help decision makers understand the value and long-term financial benefit of a modern cybersecurity implementation.

This asset provides actual categories of industrial cybersecurity defenses, example costs, risks of not implementing, and space for cybersecurity champions to load their own cost assumptions. Then it provides the steps and formulas to derive credible ROI calculations.





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