“A sophisticated security concept can become a competitive advantage”

Dear Readers,

In Europe, losses caused by cyber­crime amount to bil­lions every year. That’s why the mechan­ical engi­neering sector is con­stantly working on solu­tions that improve the cyber resilience of supply chains and prod­ucts today and into the future. Safety and Secu­rity demon­strate many par­al­lels, with risk man­age­ment in par­tic­ular stim­u­lating both dis­ci­plines: this is the only way to quan­tify the effec­tive­ness of Safety or Secu­rity mea­sures and the exploitability of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties.

This will become a key task for product secu­rity, at the latest when the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) 2027 becomes manda­tory. Com­po­nent man­u­fac­turers, inte­gra­tors and plant oper­a­tors alike should pre­pare for this. There are dif­ferent methods avail­able, depending on whether you wish to sell thou­sands of cat­a­logue items or spe­cialist machinery within the EU. The CRA also applies to non-Euro­pean com­pa­nies that wish to place their prod­ucts on the EU market in future. 

I’m con­vinced that industry will master the chal­lenges of Secu­rity in the same way they did with Safety – and ulti­mately, a sophis­ti­cated Secu­rity con­cept will become a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage: finan­cially moti­vated cyber­crim­i­nals will simply look else­where. 

Yours
Max­i­m­ilian Moser