European regulation is changing the identity design brief for Industry 4.0. In manufacturing, identity can no longer stop at workforce access or remote supplier access. NIS2 raises expectations for cyber risk management, reporting, and supply-chain security across 18 critical sectors, while the Cyber Resilience Act requires products with digital elements to be secure by default and maintained through their expected support period, with reporting obligations starting on 11 September 2026 and the main obligations applying from 11 December 2027.
This session explains why factories now need four identity planes: workforce, third-party, machine, and product. It shows how that shift changes the way organizations handle machine and gateway identity, product lifecycle trust, and the evidence needed for governance and incident response. Rather than treating NIS2 and the CRA as compliance checklists, the session turns them into a practical identity architecture problem for operations, suppliers, machines, and connected products.
Attendees will leave with:
- a clear model for separating workforce, third-party, machine, and product identities in a factory environment
- a practical view of how CRA changes product lifecycle identity, from secure defaults to updates and support periods
- a concrete understanding of how NIS2 shifts identity from access alone to evidence, review, and accountability after incidents or supplier activity
