![]() Organizations can then take their findings from the simulations run in their digital twins and apply them to the real-world object. These simulations help organizations understand the outcomes of various scenarios, which helps with planning, predictive maintenance, design enhancements, and the like. Regardless of the industry, organizations use digital twins to run simulations that can be performed faster, easier, cheaper, and with lower risk in the digital twin than the real-world environment. That kind of modeling has proven very useful to the manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, energy, utilities, healthcare, life sciences, retail, and real estate industries. Digital twins change in real-time to match the originalĪ digital twin is not static: it takes in the same data - often supplied in real-time - that its real-world twin does and changes accordingly. The object represented by a digital twin could be a physical item such as an aircraft or an environment such as a building or manufacturing plant, a virtual replica of a technical system, an environment that already exists, with all the real-world processes simulated by the technology duplicated in the digital twin, or a replica of plans for those objects.Īccording to some, a digital twin can also be a duplicate of a person such as an employee or a persona - a digital representation of an individual entity such as a customer or a company. The beauty of digital twins is that they allow the testing and behavioral analysis of real-world systems using data from the system itself. ![]() “There are a lot of cybersecurity and potential hacker infiltration opportunities in this kind of technology,” Bothwell says. Some say digital twins could not only create new entry points for those types of attacks but could present opportunities for new attack types - including what one security expert described as the “evil digital twin.” Technology experts and security leaders say digital twins can be as vulnerable to existing threats as conventional information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments. Digital twins are vulnerable to threats and need to be protected ![]() “Here we have another tool, and it can be beneficial, but it still needs to be hardened, it still needs cybersecurity applied to it, the connection to the internet has to be secured, and the data has to be protected,” says Brian Bothwell, a director in the science, technology assessment, and analytics (STAA) team at the US Government Accountability Office and author of a February 2023 GOA report on digital twins.
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