Cybersecurity is no longer a matter of you. In the heart of the European industry, the digital threat has gone from being a distant possibility of a quantifiable and real loss. A new report warns that one in three industrial companies on the continent has suffered damage to cyber attacks that reach, and even exceed 5 million euros. And most worrying: experts warn that incidents will continue to grow if defenses in operational technology (OT) environments are not reinforced.
Millionaire losses that affect the entire industrial chain
According to the study prepared by Kaspersky and VDC Research, the most common economic damages range between 88,000 and 885,000 euros per attack, but almost a third of the companies analyzed recognize losses of up to 4.4 million euros. Some even exceed 8.8 million euros in a single incident.
The most affected sectors, such as energy, manufacturing, transport and public services, have seen how cyber attacks paralyze production lines, generate inventory waste and cause important logistics delays. All this directly impacts the benefits and confidence of customers.
Unplanned stops, the hidden cost of a bad cyber -defense
The report details that the response to incidents already represents almost 24%of the total cost associated with the gaps, followed by the direct loss of income (20.7%) and the unplanned operational stops (16.9%). The latter are especially harmful: 60% of affected organizations ensure that the stops last between four and 24 hours.
“Unplanned stops can cost millions of dollars to organizations, which makes them a critical problem for industrial and manufacturing companies,” says Andrey Strelkov, responsible for the line of industrial cybersecurity products in Kaspersky. “Strengthening cybersecurity is essential to avoid gaps that end up causing expensive failures in equipment and stops.”
The answer: specific industrial safety and adapted to the OT environment
The complexity of industrial environments requires solutions specifically designed for them. Therefore, Kaspersky has developed an OT protection ecosystem, with its Kaspersky Industrial Cybersecury (Kics) platform as a central axis. This XDR (detection and extended response) solution offers complete coverage of critical infrastructure, centralized management, safe response to incidents and ability to operate in distributed environments.
The key is to anticipate: identify vulnerabilities, segment networks, train staff and have tools that detect anomalous behaviors before they become millions of millions.
