High‑Tech Manufacturing
Industry Application Scenarios
The dilemma faced by the technology manufacturing industry in the new IoT era
In response to the wave of Industry 4.0 and ESG corporate sustainability development, high-tech manufacturing is gradually expanding digital technology investments. With the transformation and upgrade toward smart factories and IoT-enabled production lines, factory network architectures are shifting from closed to open, inevitably raising more cybersecurity challenges for OT management. According to the iThome 2024 Cybersecurity Survey, ransomware and hacker threats are among the top risks faced by technology manufacturers in 2024. In addition, supply chain attacks and insider data theft leading to confidential leaks have become critical defense targets for the high-tech manufacturing industry. Once a cybersecurity incident occurs, resulting in production downtime, the losses are immeasurable and can severely damage corporate reputation.
Challenges for manufacturing under the digital wave
Frequent hacker attacks
- Attacks causing production line shutdowns
- 24H monitoring of abnormal behaviors
- Lack of backup and redundancy mechanisms
Implementing cloud-based digital transformation
- ESG initiatives accelerating cloud adoption
- Scattered data across departments
- Old systems becoming blind spots
Security concerns in supply chain data exchange
- Lack of secure mechanisms for data sharing
- Enforce least privilege access by role
- Access permissions with numerous members
Requirements for a highly secure network environment
- Network security architecture requirement
- Internal compliance audit report requirements
- To integrate enterprise systems
Zero Trust File Management System enabling digital resilience in high-tech manufacturing
2023 Certification of Cybersecurity Service Capability by the Ministry of Digital Affairs ｜2023 Recognition of Autonomous Information Security Products
ASUS OmniStor Zero Trust File Management System, built on Cloud Native Data Protection, strengthens internal file authorization management, access security protection, and external sharing risk control for technology manufacturers. It also provides abnormal threat blocking and recovery mechanisms to meet both IT and OT security needs, ensuring business continuity and enhancing enterprise digital resilience.。
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Multi-layer defense to ensure uninterrupted manufacturing operations
Establishing multiple defense lines to block hacker s
- Encrypted transmission and storage to build the first line of cybersecurity defense
- Data anomaly alerts ensuring cloud file isolation
- Supporting ICAP integration with security applications
Cloud-native architecture reducing resource management burdens
- Single-platform reducing management and maintenance
- Software-defined storage offering high scalability
- Native cloud architecture enabling integration with enterprise applications
Multiple access methods combined with multi-factor authentication
- Diverse sharing and access models
- Support for SSO single sign-on to secure account and password access
- IP whitelisting to strengthen remote control
Strict monitoring and logging to mitigate malicious attacks in real time
- Transmission encryption with anomaly auto-detection
- Complete usage tracking file behavior monitoring
- Comprehensive backup and rapid recovery
Cloud adoption with data non-residency
- Confidential data non-residency enforcing the principle of least privilege
- Audit mechanisms to track data movement
- Watermarking to prevent files from leaking
Efficient recovery mechanisms ensuring uninterrupted operations
- Native HA architecture for continuous system uptime
- Syncand backup mechanisms ensuring data integrity
- Rapid data recovery ensuring business continuity
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Benefits of technology manufacturing applications
Strengthening industrial cybersecurity protection and accelerating digital governance
Through OmniStor’s single digitalization platform, enterprises can easily implement security protection mechanisms, eliminating concerns about cloud adoption. Factors that once hindered transformation can now be addressed with Zero Trust architecture and strict data governance, preventing confidential data leaks and vulnerabilities while enhancing the willingness and efficiency of digital transformation.
Immediate risk containment and efficient recovery to improve business resilience
In recent years, many high-tech manufacturers have suffered from cybersecurity incidents, with a significant portion experiencing operational disruptions due to insufficient defenses. In particular, OT environments are less mature than IT environments in terms of security deployment, lacking adequate experience and resources. OmniStor provides data protection at the device networking stage, quickly halting risks of data tampering or mass loss caused by attacks, and leveraging multi-layer backup mechanisms for rapid recovery, enabling equipment to resume operations in a short time and minimizing business losses.
Supporting ESG development plans to help enterprises achieve sustainability goals
In recent years, the technology manufacturing industry has aligned ESG goals with digital transformation, even making it a key indicator. As a result, cloud adoption has become a top priority. OmniStor assists technology manufacturers in leveraging cloud-native architecture and virtualization storage advantages to reduce hardware expansion needs, save resources and labor costs, and quickly consolidate complex product documents and R&D design data. This enables the implementation of energy-saving and paperless strategies, fulfilling net-zero carbon emission goals.
