Every year we learn more and more painfully that the use of information technology requires a very special new security discipline: cyber security. "Classic" security looks primarily at risks from technology failure, human error or force majeure events. The focus of cyber security planning and implementation, on the other hand, is on considering and combating threats from malicious acts by third parties. Cybersecurity also considers risks from nature and technology, but focuses on targeted and untargeted attacks from any network, from so-called cyberspace.

 

For years, cyber security has also been an issue in the digitalisation of production, the so-called Industry 4.0. It was recognised early on that with all the progress that can be achie ...