Information & cyber security
Everything we do comes down to information. Digital, physical, and verbal. In products, processes, and in people. At GEA, we are deeply committed to protecting all kinds of sensitive information for the benefit of our customers and partners, and for our corporate success.
The need for information security is constantly growing – especially as digitalization and remote work increase. Since everything we do is based on information, and systems are becoming ever more interconnected, securing information is an imperative for future success. At GEA, information security is a prime strategic priority. We shape and design our value creation processes to ensure information is handled securely. By protecting our own and our partners’ company information, we will all have the right environment and the peace of mind to focus on what we do best: engineering for a better world.
Comprehensive information security approach
GEA strives to be the world’s leading technology group, providing innovative and sustainable solutions for sophisticated process industries. Our strategy is based on our central goal to be the partner of choice for customers worldwide. Accordingly, we have a profound, secure, effective, and efficient Information Security Management System (ISMS) in place. At GEA, we work hard every day to achieve this. We operate and continuously improve our global ISMS, which consists of preventive, detective, reactive, and corrective security measures against growing security threats. From top management to every employee, each member of the GEA Group worldwide is committed to protecting the information of our customers and partners as well as our own, in the best possible way within their area of responsibility.
Protecting all types of sensitive information
Our approach is to protect all kinds of sensitive information: intellectual property, strategic, pricing, personal information and other know-how information processed by GEA, regardless of its format. Information security applies to physical, electronic, and verbal information alike. Our goal is to adequately protect all information assets from theft, loss, unauthorized disclosure, unlawful access, misuse, unauthorized modification, and destruction.
We achieve this by covering the core values of information security – confidentiality, integrity, and availability – also known as “CIA.”
Confidentiality
Prevents or minimizes unauthorized access to information
Integrity
Ensures the reliability and correctness of information
Availability
Ensures that authorized subjects are granted timely and uninterrupted access to information
To learn more about the different pillars of Information Security at GEA, click on each link below:
Information security management system
Within the Information Security Management System, GEA operates and maintains two lines of defense against major security risks.
Supplier security
GEA defined Information Security requirements for suppliers to work with GEA information assets.
Product security
We protect our products against possible attacks in order to ensure the business processes of our customers.
Business continuity management
With the help of the GEA strategic BCM approach, GEA can respond quickly and adequate to possible disruptions in the core processes and minimize any resulting damage.
Production security
GEA OT Security focuses on strengthening the cyber resilience at GEA Factory Shopfloors globally.
We continue to face physical and digital risks that are ever changing. That is why we can never be complacent and why security is so high on our agenda.
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