She explained that customers want smart solutions, and they are telling Siemens that they want more, but they are concerned whether they can trust the solution. “The growth is more than 30% and it’s really getting into the steep part of the curve,” Schulz-Kamm said. And security will be more important than ever.
By 2020, we will have billions of devices that are connected. And in the 2000s, the IoT was coming, with connected facilities/plants/sites being the focus. In the 1980s, it was about connected products. While security might seem to be a recent concern for the world, the company and others like it have been worrying about this issue for more than three decades.
Eva Schulz-Kamm, Global Head, Government Affairs, Siemens, spoke today on “digitalization and the importance of cybersecurity.” Schulz-Kamm, a physicist by training, is responsible for global affairs and is based in Berlin. Here at Siemen’s press event on cybersecurity in Munich, the company is focusing on the issue of trust - without trust in digitalization, industrial users will not embrace the IoT and connected technologies.
