How do these attacks impact businesses and humans?

We have, so far, seen some of the impactful attacks in the OT world and have managed to pick up some lessons from each of them. Most of them point us in the same direction: toward finding a stable solution to be able to apply to both the IT and OT worlds. We have seen some of the amazing benefits of the convergence of IT and OT with Industry 4.0 and how it impacts businesses, thrusting them forward toward success in the data and AI worlds. However, when the fast-paced digital transformation is not intertwined with the right security and monitoring, we will see it hampering businesses in a negative way. We have also learned from previous attacks that the impact on the OT world is visible not only on the business (monetary or reputation loss) but also, unfortunately, on human lives too.

It is especially important to understand the risk appetite of any organization. Based on this, they can focus on how to improve their IT/OT security...