Leveraging AI in Manufacturing: Enhancing Efficiency, Quality, and Safety
Summary: Manufacturers are adopting AI for predictive maintenance, quality control, inventory management, supply chain management and autonomous robots, and Dragos notes that the AI model is usually cloud-hosted, requiring external network connections from the facility that create a potential attack path. Dragos reports that in 2022, 83 percent of its manufacturing clients had undocumented or uncontrolled external connections to their OT process environments, and that external connections are one of the top threat behaviors used by ransomware groups.
What you should know: Ransomware groups rank external connections among their top threat behaviors, and 83 percent of Dragos's manufacturing clients could not fully account for those connections into OT - the same links now being opened to reach cloud-hosted AI models.
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