The industrial manufacturing sector is large and diverse, but the majority of manufacturing enterprises face similar IT security and risk management challenges in both maintaining a secure IT system and meeting requirements to maintain the privacy of customer information:

• Hackers are a constant treat to any business with an online presence. Websites defacements, denial of services, credit card and identity theft are just a few of the attacks that businesses are exposed to every day.
• Transmitting, processing or storing credit card information requires compliance with the Payment Card Industry Standard (PCI DSS).
• If a security breach is taking place or has occurred, manufacturers need to have a plan to quickly respond to the incident. In such situations, it is also necessary to ensure digital evidence is identified, preserved, and analyzed for use in the legal process if needed.
• Manufacturers need also to keep up with technology advancements while maintaining assets and information systems that are protected and secure.

To address these challenges, manufacturers must include security controls to their infrastructures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s information and communications.

How ERM can Help:

Assistance from specialists like ERM ease the burden of both interpreting requirements, keeping abreast of changing regulations, and fulfilling industry and federal demands.