Introduction: The Rise of IIoT and Security Challenges With Industry 4.0 and 5.0, Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices have revolutionized manufacturing, energy, and logistics. However, their rapid adoption has introduced critical cybersecurity risks. By 2025, 75 billion IoT devices will be operational globally, with 40% deployed in industrial sectors. Yet, Gartner reports that 80% of IoT...

Once you’ve identified and assessed the risks that exist for the purposes of the audit, you have four possible responses to choose from:Risk avoidance involves identifying a risk and making a decision to no longer engage in the actions associated with that risk. For example, an organisation may decide...

One area of primary concern for administrators today is privacy. Not only are you charged with keeping data accessible, but that accessibility must be limited to certain parties, and those parties seem to change regularly. In healthcare, for example, records may be restricted to a patient and a doctor,...

Make sure you understand the scope and terms of hardware and service-level agreements (SLAs). This can help avoid frustration and prevent unexpected disruptions from crippling your business. The following are key metrics you should be familiar with: Probability The meaning of the word probability is usually self-explanatory; however, actual...

When you’re doing a risk assessment, one of the most important things to do is prioritise. Not everything should be weighted equally, because some events are more likely to happen than others. Also, some risks are acceptable to a company, while others would be catastrophic for the company. Calculating...

Risk assessment is also known as risk analysis or risk calculation. For the sake of consistency, we will use the term risk assessment throughout this discussion. Risk assessment is concerned with the threats, vulnerabilities and consequences of a loss of information processing capabilities or a loss of information itself....

To protect your assets, you need to be able to identify the threats to them – the more specific you can be, the better. It is easy to say “you could lose data”, but that is a hazard, not a threat. The threat is what would cause you to...

Every field of study has a few terms or words that are unique to that field to help people in the field communicate with each other. The study of risk is no different. acceptable use policy/code of conduct: Agreed-upon principles established by a company to govern how that company’s...

Today, with the rapid progress of digital transformation, internet and network systems have gained more importance than ever before. In this context, network security has become an area that companies and individuals should give utmost importance. Network security protects the security and privacy of data by providing protection against...

Data security is a vital issue for every organisation and individual today. In this article, we will address the answers to the question of how to ensure data security and detail the basic steps to be applied in this process. The first step in ensuring data security is to...