The AI Industrial Revolution: Securing the Factories of the Future
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10-Mar-2026
While we're all playing with AI chatbots on our laptops, a much more dangerous and exciting revolution is happening out in the dirt, grime, and mission-critical reality of industrial networks. Cisco’s VP of Product Management for Cisco's Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, Samuel Pasquier, joins Techstrong TV to discuss their 2026 State of Industrial AI report, revealing how "physical AI" and machine vision are rapidly transforming everything from manufacturing floors to power grids. But as Pasquier explains, giving autonomous robots and connected machines a mind of their own means organizations are now facing a terrifying skills gap as they scramble to secure an exponentially growing attack surface.
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