Explain why the manufacturing sector needs to manage cyber risk.

Explanation should include the following:

• Unmanaged risk can cause loss in product, time/productivity, reputation, and/or profit/revenue.
• The protection of the product may also ensure public/consumer safety.
• Every organization is vulnerable to common and unique types of threats.
• Organizations must identify vulnerable areas, along with the potential for actual threats, so they can plan operations to reduce the effect of those threats.
• Because all threats cannot be completely eliminated, organizations must address responses to threats as well as contingency plans for continuous manufacturing operations.

Process/Skill Questions:

• How should an employer protect the company against malicious industrial espionage, disgruntled employees, and high-end hackers?
• What type of prevention method can ward off cybercrime in your organization?
• Why do you need to have a list of cybersecurity roles and responsibilities for the organization’s workforce and managers?
• What makes the manufacturing sector unique in terms of cybersecurity?
• What would happen if an attacker would access the industrial control systems (ICS) in a manufacturing enterprise?
• What is the impact of a cyber incident on the physical environment in a manufacturing enterprise?