The same unpatched device is a completely different problem depending on the industry it sits in. In finance, it is a compliance exposure. The regulations behind PCI DSS, FFIEC and SOX expect continuous monitoring, and a single blind spot can turn a routine audit into a very bad week. In retail, it is often a scanner or a temporary workstation brought in for the holiday rush, quietly handing an attacker a path into POS and inventory systems. In manufacturing, it is a connected HMI or PLC on a live production line that cannot simply be pulled offline to patch whenever it suits IT. In automotive, it is a single robotic cell or AGV, where one incident can stop an entire line and burn through revenue by the hour. In telecom, it is scale itself. Hundreds of thousands of distributed endpoints, and only the ones you can actually see are the ones you can defend. Different sectors, different stakes, one common thread. The endpoint that causes the breach is almost never the one anyone was watching. Whatever the sector, we build on the same foundation: Omnissa Unified Endpoint Management, tuned to each industry rather than forced onto it. We mapped out what this looks like sector by sector: https://lnkd.in/ezPrcdkt #Cybersecurity #EndpointSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure Omnissa - Vivien Tan, Anoop Nair, Edna Lim, Lynette Lim, Asghar Reza, Umesh Goyal, Mudit Singhal, Vijay joshi Anunta - Ajit Aloz, Rajkumar Solomons, Sudesh Bhosle, Devesh Kacha, Philip Lopes, Rajashree Majumdar, Jerin Raju, Subramaniam Krishnan.
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