In the age of Industry 4.0, new challenges for IT security in industrial automation arise from increasing digitalisation. Just as the efficiency and reach of production multiply with increasing networking, the vulnerability of overall IT systems also increases. The high risk of targeted cyber attacks and the associated damage and production downtime calls for new concepts in dealing with IT security in the automation industry.

While large companies often already have their own emergency teams (so-called Computer Emergency Response Teams, CERT) and specialised product security teams (Product Security Incident Response Teams, PSIRT), these are usually not available in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or have only limited resources. In additi ...