Cisco And Tennessee's Transportation CIO Report On Cybersecurity Trends

Digital transformation is rapidly moving the transportation industry from a closed, proprietary and analog ecosystem to open, networked, always-on mobility platform. It is already a prime example of the efficiency and revenue-generating potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) and soon, as we are promised by legacy and upstart automakers, it will become the prototype of the autonomous, AI-driven, robotic future. Becoming digital, however, means a new life in the cybersecurity trenches. Cisco's 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report includes interesting findings from a survey of 180 chief information security officers and security operations professionals in the transportation industry. Here are the highlights, buttressed by commentary from Joe Kirk, CIO of the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), "moving Tennessee forward" for more than 100 years and winner of a 2017 National Roadway Safety Award.