Security trends in the manufacturing industry - June 2017

The good news? In 2016, the manufacturing sector clients monitored by IBM® Security Services experienced fewer attacks than our clients across all industries. The bad news? In manufacturing, the proportion of “security incidents”—those attacks to which we give our most serious classification— was almost 40 percent higher than the average across all industries (see Figure 1). Overall, the 2017
IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reveals that manufacturing was the third most-attacked sector in 2016.