The main questions are:

1. How to increase asset performance while minimizing risk?
2. Which executives and teams need to be involved?
3. How can priorities be established?
4. How to secure wise investments for high-performance cybersecurity?

ALPHA has the following strategies:

1. Target alignment and engaging key – stakeholders;
2. Development of an action plan;
3. Initiation of an execution plan;
4. Transformation into assets and security through governance;
5. Reassessment and optimization.

Think Quality – Holistic approach for cyber security

Companies active in the field of machinery and plant engineering, as well as operators of industrial plants, are particularly at risk from cyber criminals. They have to reckon with severe economic damages, e.g. plants come to a standstill or ransom demands. Simple technical hurdles, such as virus protection programs or spam filters, are inadequate. Even unconditional trust in those employees who work in a protected area is not enough to ensure security.

ALPHA’s approach is holistic, because it not only takes into account the technical implementation and the identification of strengths and weaknesses of an IT system or unit, but also approaches to exclude psychological tactics and manipulations, e.g. also on the basis of ISO 27001 or the regulations of the DSGVO: