2021 Cybersecurity: Assess Your Risk, published by PMMI – The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, examines cyber threats to manufacturing through 2020–2021 incident analyses, industry surveys, and expert interviews to map vulnerabilities and response gaps. Key focus areas include IT/OT convergence and network segmentation, IIoT/cloud/edge risk and secure-update practices, workforce and insider risk management and training, and OEM/supplier chain-of-custody with remote-access controls; examples range from unsecured sensors to compromised service portals. The analysis indicates organizations tend to underinvest in tested recovery plans, and charts highlight common attack vectors and detection challenges. The report reveals where manufacturers and OEMs are prioritizing investments to strengthen cyber resilience.
Published by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, in March 2021. Based on surveys, interviews, and secondary analysis from manufacturers, OEMs, and cybersecurity industry experts collected 2019–2020.
