With the arrival of the EU's NIS 2 standard, manufacturing leaders responsible for securing cyber-physical infrastructure face some new challenges. The regulation reflects a current trend also seen in updated cybersecurity standards like NIST CSF 2.0 and new qualification requirements for cyber insurance. Specifically, NIS 2 compliance requires manufacturers to invest as much in recovery measures (backup, disaster recovery, incident response planning) as the latest cyber defense measures.

This session examines the people, process and technology strategies that manufacturing tech leaders can adopt to protect cyber-physical infrastructure for NIS 2 compliance - with special focus on the computers that manage, monitor and configure operational technology in facilities without local IT staff and/or that are air-gapped.