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TXOne Networks delivers convenient and reliable cybersecurity for the era of IT-OT convergence
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TXOne Networks delivers convenient and reliable cybersecurity for the era of IT-OT convergence

If you have a profitable manufacturing business , you will be targeted by hackers .” This is the stark warning given by Dr Terence Liu , CEO of TXOne Networks and Vice President of Trend Micro . For more than two decades Liu ’ s single-minded pursuit has been the eradication of cyber risk to industrial control systems ( ICS ).

During a year in which we saw ransomware attacks on both the Colonial Pipeline , which supplies 45 % of the US East Coast ’ s fuel , and JBS Foods , the world ’ s largest meat supplier , President Joe Biden has released a call to action for large-scale improvements to ICS cybersecurity - a call which has been answered by TXOne Networks .
Speaking from his office in Taipei , Taiwan , Liu discusses the importance of adaptive cybersecurity for ICS shop floor protection and shows how this can be achieved from network to endpoints with maximised operational integrity for both legacy and modernised assets .
Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting systems , networks , and computer programs from digital attacks in which hackers seek to change or destroy sensitive information , extort money from targets , or disrupt business activities . Hackers are
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