Maintain Your Supply Chain.

Business Continuity

Operational Resiliency is crucial for digitizing processes for Industry 4.0.

Digital production systems create efficiencies and accelerate workflows, but you’ll need the security posture to protect them. Cloud services, IoT integrations and M2M communications can be difficult to monitor and are thus susceptible to cyber-attacks. But, you can avoid downtime by proactively designing redundancy and resiliency into your infrastructure and integration SecOps into your business.

Redundancy 

Just like your manufacturing lines, you want to identify single points of failure in your IT systems. By identifying which systems are impacted by outages, you can perform a cost-benefit analysis to right size your IT investment. Interruptions increasingly come from software bugs, programming errors, service provider interruptions, and cyber criminals as communications hardware is generally reliable. 

Prevent and Prepare 

Get started with a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Security Risk Assessment, or a Network or Data Center Assessment. You'll want to identify infrastructure gaps and vulnerabilities, so you can build a plan to address them. You'll also want to closely examine your Disaster Recovery processes from Backup and Recovery capabilities to who is responsible for declaring a disaster and information is required to make that decision. 

Connect, Protect, Compute.

Data & Connectivity

IoT and M2M integrations, 5G, and edge computing are revolutionizing manufacturing.

IoT & M2M Integrations 

IoT & M2M integrations create efficiencies, provide automation opportunities, and harvest the data needed to make big decisions. IoT sensors produce a lot of data, which is why machines are often better suited to analyze and execute data-driven decisions. By setting parameters ahead of time, your IoT and M2M systems can accelerate production and reduce downtime, enhancing product margins. 

Edge Computing 

With all the data produced by IoT sensors, you may wonder how you'll get that traffic to your data center and back to the machines that need it. Edge computing systems were designed for this purpose. With Edge Computing, you can reduce response time save bandwidth by placing compute and storage near the point of data generation. 

5G 

You may have production locations where reliable bandwidth for IoT devices is unavailable or cost prohibitive. 5G is the next generation mobile network that will connect machines, IoT devices, and other objects, making it the perfect upgrade to accommodate AI and efficient supply chain operations.