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Data Security for Manufacturers

March 4, 2025
The dire shortage of skilled labor has propelled greater reliance on automation, digital capabilities, and AI – and all that makes manufacturers more susceptible to cybercrime.

The number one concern for US manufacturers continues to be the shortage of available labor – which has prompted their steady advance toward automation, and then to digitalization, and lately to Artificial Intelligence, to fill in the missing resources. All that progress is creating a significant volume of data that is vulnerable to attack. A cloud-based software developer assesses the problem and offers some tips for addressing the risk.

Learn more – and what to do about it – in this installment of the Great Question podcast.