The advent of AI in manufacturing has brought about many efficiency gains and benefits such as better ROI for plant operations, which includes increased uptime performance and efficiency. But AI also has opened manufacturing systems, especially OT that wasn’t made to be networked but now is, to a much larger threat landscape.
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For a special webinar that is part of our Digital Transformation Academy—a partnership between Smart Industry and our sister brand IndustryWeek—SI has enlisted two experts who specialize in manufacturing cybersecurity to talk to our audience about the special challenges that AI brings to modernized plant systems and environments.
Tim Freestone is chief strategy officer and AI-first strategist with Kiteworks, vendor of a software platform designed to manage and secure sensitive and proprietary data communications.
Carolyn Duby is field CTO and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, vendor of a data platform designed for flexible data management and analytics across any cloud and on-premises environments.
Freestone and Duby will join the conversation starting at noon on Thursday, Aug. 28, during a program hosted by Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl.
So, don’t forget to register and watch live in two weeks or check out the replay of the program anytime your schedule allows. An email from Smart Industry and IndustryWeek will notify you when a replay is available for viewing after the live webinar airs. Also look to Smart Industry's LinkedIn HQ for updates.
