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Cyberattacks are on the rise. Surprisingly, small-to medium-sized businesses are a huge target. There was a 424% increase in new small business cyber breaches last year. Since COVID-19, the US FBI reported a 300% increase in reported cybercrimes. No business wants to experience downtime. When you're in manufacturing, the financial cost of downtime can be significant.


Operational technology (OT) describes environments comprising of Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS). OT has a high inherent risk as compared to IT systems due to weak access control across physical & logical regions, high functionality-dependent design principles, and complexity of personnel involved in various project stages.


TÜV SÜD is one of the first providers offering IACS cybersecurity certifications according to IEC 62443 – a set of security standards to secure IACS.

Mr. Young-Joon Park, Senior Team Leader of Advanced Manufacturing at TÜV SÜD Korea, will explain about what OT cybersecurity is, why it's getting important and how IEC 62443 standard can help companies secure their OT infrastructures.

Especially as the security needs of an industrial control system differ greatly from those of office IT starting with the main objective – plant availability – and ending with the overall situation in the industrial environment, such as long discontinued systems,

Mr. Carlos Alves, Head of Digital Enterprises Services of Siemens Ltd. Seoul will share "Defense in Depth", a multilevel security strategy developed by Siemens AG that includes technology, training measures and improvements to the organizational structure in order to enhance Plant Protection, Network Security and System Integrity.

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