Industrial systems are becoming increasingly interconnected, automated and specialized for complex tasks. In the industrial environment, many plants and their components are insufficiently protected against cyberattacks due to their long life cycles. Once an attacker managed to gain access to one part of the system, taking over, spying on or manipulating other parts of the system is almost childsplay. For plant manufacturers as well as operators, a successful attack can result in loss of reputation, financial damage and danger to life and limb of staff.

The IT security of industrial plants is one of the research areas of the scientists at Fraunhofer AISEC. The topic Industrial Security provides information about their work and concrete research results on securing industrial systems.