Manufacturing Resilience in the AI Era:  5 - Cybersecurity as a Manufacturing Issue

Manufacturing Resilience in the AI Era: 5 - Cybersecurity as a Manufacturing Issue

July 20, 2026 · 38 min · Season 7 · Episode 5

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Katherine Blough discusses the importance of viewing cybersecurity as a core operational risk in manufacturing, highlighting the vulnerabilities introduced by modern technology.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Connected Frontier, host Katherine Blough reframes cybersecurity from a back-office IT responsibility into a core operational risk that directly impacts manufacturing continuity. She dismantles the dangerous myth of the "air-gapped" factory floor, illustrating how modern connectivity, remote access, and AI integration expand the attack surface into physical shop-floor machinery and data pipelines. Listeners will gain actionable strategies for bridging t...

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