Fleets Confront Cybersecurity Risks as Technology Evolves
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The trucking and logistics sector is grappling with rising network complexity and risk with the increasing pressure to adopt new technologies, according to a study June 11 from network technology company.
The report surveyed senior executives across the transportation and logistics sector. Respondents indicated that their top priority over the next 12 months is simplifying and lowering network costs at 70%. This was followed by enhancing network performance and security visibility (57%) and reducing workload on IT teams (51%).
“We really increased both network complexity and risk,” Aryaka Chief Marketing Officer Ken Rutsky said. “Figuring out how to deliver on applications across these complex hybrid networks has become harder and harder. I think the report shows that organizations are dealing with it, but also struggling with it. The other thing that’s happened, of course, and it’s probably not to anyone’s surprise, is threats have increased dramatically.”
Respondents also viewed staying ahead of cybersecurity threats as their biggest daily networking challenge at 81%, followed by cost-effective modernization (62%) and understaffed IT teams (60%). They also noted that ransomware and malware threats are their top network security concern (77%), with policy enforcement (66%) and remote access control (64%), second and third, respectively.
“Every organization is under target now,” Rutsky said. “The second part of it is, as networks have gotten more complex by using the cloud and hybrid infrastructure, the attack surface has gotten bigger also. And so, it has really raised cybersecurity front and center as a challenge for organizations.
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“I think that it dovetails straight into, as they modernize their network and their application infrastructure, it creates new risk as well as stretches the team more.”
The Aryaka report also found that only 28% of respondents have started implementing solutions to mitigate network and security challenges. This compares with 56% who are still either evaluating GenAI risks or outright unprepared.
Rutsky noted that the transportation sector is going through a rapid technical transformation. This process includes the merging of physical and digital infrastructure and organizations becoming more distributed. He sees the trend impact essentially every sector, with transportation facing additional concerns related to critical infrastructure and the economy.
“Organizations are under tremendous pressure to use generative AI to get more competitive and more productive,” Rutsky said. “The first step in managing and understanding something is just having visibility to it. So even knowing where GenAI is used within the organization is a challenge for networking and security teams.”
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Rutsky pointed out that the criminals also are leveraging these technologies to improve their cyberattacks. He even compared it to an arms race between transportation companies and the criminals.
“At Aryaka, we’re applying AI in order to drive better threat intelligence, better protection, as well as securing just specific attacks that are AI-specific,” Rutsky said. “So when you think about the attack, there are two aspects of it. For example, I can use AI to build better ransomware, deepfakes and the like, and we see that happening across the industry. But I can also look at organization’s usage of GenAI and say, ‘How can I attack that?’ And so, it is both doing better at your baseline security, the threats we’ve always managed, but now also dealing with these new threats.”
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