Empowering manufacturing with secure, scalable communication solutions
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In today’s world, digital communication is essential. It accelerates alignment and processes between departments and locations, ensuring transparency and traceability. But there’s one crucial factor: communication must be secure! For companies in manufacturing, especially in highly regulated sectors like defense, security is not just important—it's legally required.
How secure communication ensures secure operations and production
In industries like manufacturing and defense, the requirements have steadily increased in recent years. In times when national security is increasingly in focus, manufacturing companies must be ready to scale quickly. But how do you prepare for this? One important aspect is efficient communication and training, which must be both scalable and absolutely secure.
Here are three key factors that manufacturing companies should keep in mind when it comes to the security of their communication:
1. Security training reduces risks
Imparting the right knowledge: Ensure your workforce has the necessary knowledge to avoid errors and risks. With eLearning courses integrated into your LMS and intranet environment, the training process becomes simpler, more efficient, and always accessible.
Progress and completion always traceable: The training modules should be structured in a way that progress can be tracked at all times. This not only provides better control but also ensures that employees are up-to-date and compliant.
Scalability: Turn every training program into part of the onboarding process for new hires. This way, knowledge is efficiently transferred while building a unified security culture across the organization.
Automatic refresher courses: Ensure all employees are regularly retrained, for example through annual refresher courses, keeping their skills and compliance current.
2. Role-based access control: security through clear permissions
Ensuring reliability: Control exactly who has access to what content—whether it’s training, a wiki, or the latest company news. A detailed role system and clearly defined user groups ensure that employees only have access to the information they need.
No unauthorized access: By assigning precise, need-based permissions, you ensure that no unauthorized individuals gain access to sensitive data or confidential information.
Voucher-based access: In manufacturing, where not every employee has access to a personal computer or even a personal email address, voucher-based access to communication platforms is a practical solution. This allows employees to use their own smartphones or publicly accessible devices to log in securely, eliminating the need to rely on less secure methods to access training and company information.
3. A 100% reliable platform: what to look for
EU-based hosting – a must for more security: The first and most important requirement for a secure digital platform is EU-based hosting. Only this way can you ensure that your data is not subject to external government access, such as the Patriot Act. EU-based hosting ensures protection from unauthorized access while providing the necessary data security.
Certifications for maximum security: Ensure that your platform is protected by international certifications like ISO 27001 and ISO 27701. These certificates demonstrate that all security processes comply with the highest standards and are continuously monitored to ensure maximum protection.
Competent customer support: Reliable customer support from knowledgeable contacts is essential when it comes to fast and effective assistance. Especially in sensitive industries, it’s important to have a partner who can respond quickly to any concerns.
Cloud hosting for highest security: Although cloud hosting is often seen as controversial, it actually offers a significant security advantage. Through automatic updates and immediate security patches, a reliable provider ensures that your platform is always up-to-date with the latest technology. Cloud hosting thus provides higher security than hosting on your own servers, with continuous protection from emerging threats.
How Fellow Digitals ensures Data protection of the highest quality: Our ISO and NEN certification
Conclusion: Ready for the future of secure production
With a secure digital platform, manufacturing companies can not only make communication and onboarding more efficient but also elevate their security standards. With Fellow LMS and Fellow Intranet, companies have optimal solutions to ensure secure communication, efficient training, and compliance, while keeping employees engaged and well-trained.
Want to learn more about how digital solutions can make your production and communication safer and more efficient? Get in touch with us today!
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