Fashion Industry (Securely) 4.0ward

The fashion market segment is going through a significant technological upgrade. The need to meet modern consumer expectations and desires requires wholesale changes in the way the fashion ecosystem has historically shared information and manufactured products. Fashion cannot use existing security guidance due to the consumer expectations that a fashion product provides a unified physical experience. The addition of significant new technology increases the risk of intellectual property loss. The fashion industry requires a list of minimum-security controls that address the entire ecosystem of fashion from the fashion houses to the supply chain to the factory floor to address information security concerns. This paper begins the process of developing a minimum viable list of controls by combining controls from the Purdue model with recommended controls from the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). The paper focuses on proposed controls for the fashion sector; however, they apply to any manufacturing pivoting to Industry 4.0.