BANGALORE: According to a Kaspersky Lab survey of 3,900 IT professionals worldwide, industrial and production businesses have security priorities that are drastically different from service-based industries. Industrial sectors can value (or under-value) certain types of data far differently than other businesses, and even amongst different industrial sectors, security priorities canvary greatly.

Industrial Data Security Priorities: By the Numbers

The adage that “no two businesses are alike” is especially true when comparing businesses in corporate and services sectors (e.g., Education, E-Commerce, Healthcare) to industrial businesses. Kaspersky Lab’s survey classified respondents across 17 different business sectors, including the Manufacturing and Utilities & Energies sectors. These two industrial sectors stand apart from the others based on the designs of their IT networks – industrial machines managed by highly-specialized industrial software – and how these businesses have vastly different priorities for securing these networks.

To illustrate this point, the following tables show how these two business sectors responded to questions about what types of data they value the most, and what types of data they lose most often in security incidents.The tables also show how these response rates are ranked (e.g., highest, lowest) when compared to the responses of the other 15 business sectors included in the survey. These polarized responses show that industrial businesses value certain types of data more highly than any other type of business, and shows whether or not this data is being stolen at a comparatively higher rate.

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