The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has transformed how industries operate, delivering efficiencies and insights previously unimaginable.
Businesses across manufacturing, logistics, energy, and supply-chain sectors are now rapidly connecting legacy factory equipment, RFID-enabled assets, and operational technologies to cloud-based analytics platforms. But as companies accelerate their adoption of these powerful technologies, they’re opening the door to a growing and often overlooked security crisis. Simply put, the industrial edge, where legacy equipment interfaces directly with modern cloud services, has become a new and urgent cybersecurity battleground.
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Source: RFID Journal
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