The IIoT is being defined by many participants across the energy sector, as well as the healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation sectors, each of which needs to consider security.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) states that a successful attack on an IIoT system has the potential to be as serious as the worst industrial accidents to date (e.g., Chernobyl and Bhopal), resulting in damage to the environment, injury, or loss of human life. There is also risk of secondary damage, such as disclosure of sensitive data, interruption of operations, and destruction of systems during such an attack. The results of attacks on IIoT systems may be widespread and comparable to large natural disasters, but stemming from malicious intent. This will result in damage to brand and reputation, material economic loss, and potential damage to critical infrastructure.

With consideration for geographically distributed IIoT systems, Praetorian offers comprehensive corporate security and product security solutions that are unified through software to help ensure that disruption of an isolated system does not cascade and have global effects.