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The financial services industry is a part of the economy that consists of institutions that mainly provide financial services to customers (retail or commercial). A vast number of these institutions include banks, insurance companies and investment corporations.

As an industry is the one that gathers the most attention from threat actors of different types and expertise levels. It is also quite diverse one playing host to the technologies of the past such as mainframes and old network topologies to cutting edge ones such the blockchain and advanced cryptography. Its diverse nature also ensures that the Financial Services industry plays host to a wide range of tangible assets - the obvious one being money in many shapes and forms - and intangible assets such as personally identifiable information (PII). All of the above need both to be protected but also be available to the general public to interact with that industry.

The technology industry consists of businesses that sell electronics, digital goods or support services on these goods. Most of these businesses invest heavily into research and development to bring customers the latest gadgets and services.

Nearly every aspect of our lives is touched by one - often more - technology driven objects. As such Technology is a heavily targeted industry where a successful attack can be used in a two-fold manner:

• Directly: where the company’s assets are the actual target of the attack, mainly in the context of corporate espionage. The assets in this case are primarily intellectual property and competitive advantage related information that exists within the company.
• Indirectly: in the context of a supply chain attack. The supply chain attack, while it does threaten the company’s reputation, it is an even bigger threat for all the company’s’ clients. This attack alone makes the technology company the entry to point to all other industries using its technology.

Orion-X’s full range of services can be applied against companies in the Technology Industry.

The software development industry is diverse and consists of organizations for development, distribution and maintenance of software. Such organizations typically utilize distinctive business models, mainly either license based on-premises solutions or cloud-based solutions such as SaaS, PaaS, etc.

The software industry has evolved greatly since inception in 1955. According to Gartner, by 2013, the software industry has grown to become a $400 billion industry. The industry analyst also forecasts that public cloud services will grow 23.1 per cent in 2021 to a total of $332.3 billion.

The software industry is plagued by a wide set of threats consisting of anything from insider attacks, lack of secure coding practices to treating security as an afterthought. To combat these threats software companies need to implement a Secure Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which should include regular source code reviews and application security testing.

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The Manufacturing Industry contains a bridge between the digital and the physical worlds. The manufacturing industry is a sector that engages in the creation of new products from materials or substances. The industry mostly runs factories or plants that produce new products that add value for customers all over the world.

In terms of exposure the Manufacturing Industry is one of the more exposed ones mainly due to the intricacies of the bridge between the digital and the physical worlds which requires lengthy and arduous tests for the interoperability of its different factor components leaving it to operate in outdated platforms.

The biggest threat facing the industry is intellectual property theft can lead to financial ruin. Other threats include running outdated firmware on control systems (SCADA) and lack of cyber security awareness training for staff.

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The healthcare industry functions as a provider of medical services to patients and their medical needs. The industry can be broken up into 4 segments, namely:

• healthcare services and facilities
• medical equipment and supplies manufacturers
• insurance and managed care
• pharmaceuticals

Looking at the definition of the Healthcare industry above, it becomes immediately clear that it draws characteristics - and the relevant threats - from different - other - industries, i.e. intellectual property (Technology Industry) when we are looking at pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Technology when we are talking about medical equipment, Financial Services when we discuss insurance and managed care, etc.

The industry is facing ever increasing threats from cyber criminals as more data than ever is being collected and more and more systems and equipment need to be made visible within a network to interoperate with one another. The increasing problems have become so severe that a security standard was created to protect individuals' medical records and other personal health information. Today we know this as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Another threat that has paralyzed the industry was disruptive malware known as ransomware which again was caused by lack of cyber security awareness training as well as outdated software.