As the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) continues to gain traction among manufacturers, data protection has become a paramount concern for engineers, managers and business leaders. While the IIoT has enabled extensive innovation, it has also exposed companies to new threats that are constantly changing and evolving.
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has responded to this concern with its Data Protection Best Practices White Paper.
“Protecting IIoT data during the lifecycle of systems is one of the critical foundations of trustworthy systems,” said Bassam Zarkout, executive vice president, IGnPower and one of the paper’s authors. “To be trustworthy, a system and its characteristics, namely security, safety, reliability, resiliency and privacy, must operate in conformance with business and legal requirements. Data protection is a key enabler for compliance with these requirements, especially when facing environmental disturbances, human errors, system faults and attacks.”
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