Growing connectivity across industrial operations, supply chains and public infrastructure is changing the way cyber risk spreads, making incidents more likely to have consequences that extend beyond a single organization, according to an executive from Nexa Resources. As OT (operational technology) becomes increasingly interconnected, industrial cyber risk is evolving into a broader resilience challenge that can affect business continuity, critical services and economic stability. In response, industry leaders are being encouraged to adopt new approaches to understanding and managing industrial cyber risk, with a focus on strengthening resilience across interconnected ecosystems rather than individual organizations alone.
“Cyber incidents also now go beyond enterprise boundaries. They can disrupt physical processes or critical national services and cause domino effects across sectors. As interconnection grows, managing cyber risk is becoming a resilience challenge with implications far beyond one organization,” Marco Túlio Moraes, chief information security officer at Nexa Resources, wrote in a World Economic Forum (WEF) post.
As industrial operations become…
