Securing MQTT for IIoT: Best Practices for a Safer Industrial Ecosystem
As Industrial IoT (IIoT) adoption accelerates, the MQTT protocol has become a cornerstone for efficient real-time data exchange in manufacturing, energy, and critical infrastructure. However, security vulnerabilities in MQTT configurations can expose industrial systems to cyber threats, including unauthorized access, data breaches, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Understanding how
Survey results: The Future of Industrial IoT in 2025 – Key Trends & Insights
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is evolving rapidly, bringing new opportunities and challenges for industrial organizations worldwide. Companies across manufacturing, energy, logistics, and transportation are embracing AI-driven automation, predictive analytics, and real-time data processing to optimize operations. However, scalability issues, integration complexity, and ROI
The Role of Stakeholders in IIoT Security
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) continues to revolutionize industries, but with this growth comes an increased responsibility to secure these systems. During IIoT World's ICS Cybersecurity Day, our speakers shared their perspectives on IIoT Security, ranging from stakeholder responsibility
Three main risks that prevent companies from adopting IIoT solutions
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has brought a lot of benefits and disruptive innovations. Despite this, there are 3 main IIoT project risks that prevent companies from adopting IIoT solutions: IIoT security; lack of open standards; integrating legacy M2M/OT
A New Approach to IIoT Security
As more operational technology (OT) devices and industrial control systems (ICSs) are connected to information technology (IT) systems over the Internet, the attack surface expands to billions of insecure devices, many of which cannot be patched. That in turn creates
How to Actively Secure Your Industrial Environment In the New Era of Distrust
Today’s sophisticated Operations Technology (OT) environments have a large attack surface with numerous attack vectors. Without complete coverage, the likelihood of getting attacked is not a matter of ‘if’; it’s a matter of ‘when’. Security for OT has gained significant attention
Attack Vectors in the… Trillions?
The growing attack surface of the new Industry 4.0 internet is a big problem. On this everyone agrees. But underneath the headlines and the frequent “patch now” warnings from firewall vendors is a more ominous reality few are talking about: the
Top risks to organizations in current IIoT environment
The number of cyberattacks, data breaches and overall business disruption caused by unsecured IoT/IIoT devices are increasing because many companies don’t know the depth and breadth of the risk exposures they face when leveraging IoT devices and other emerging technologies. IoT
How would you secure over 10 million IIoT devices?
Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices will comprise the majority of the billions of IoT devices deployed over the next decade. How will the information security market meet this onslaught of technology? The consumer market is not a useful guide for this analysis.