CyberCertPrepOT Security FundamentalsOT Fundamentals: Threat Landscape & Attack VectorsEASYFree question
When ransomware affects a manufacturing plant, the most damaging OT-specific impact is usually:
- A.Loss of production availability when operators halt or lose control of physical processes
- B.Reset of employee email passwords which the plant's identity provider restores in minutes
- C.Defacement of the public-facing marketing website, a guarantee that holds across every firmware revision still in service
- D.Exfiltration of customer credit-card numbers, a behavior guaranteed by the protocol state machine itself
Why A is correct
In OT, availability is paramount, so the dominant ransomware consequence is downtime: plants frequently shut down production either because control/visibility is lost or as a precaution to contain the spread. The financial and safety stakes of stopped production often exceed the ransom itself.
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