Mechanical and plant engineeringVDMA study 'Industrial Security 2019' - the results
After 2013, the VDMA has once again conducted a survey on industrial security among manufacturing companies in Germany. The key results in a series of images.
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© VDMA-Report Industrial Security
Compared to 2013, random external influences (e.g. untargeted emails with viruses, WannaCry, phishing) were primarily responsible for security incidents for the first time (47%). Medium-sized companies in particular (251 to 1,000 employees) have been heavily affected in the past two years. This was followed by "internal perpetrators" with 38% and targeted external influences with 26%.
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