Robotic Process Automation offers the ability to automate a number of repetitive tasks within a user environment with bots, alleviating an employee’s workload and massively improving the quality and completion speed of the results. However, with RPA potentially holding access rights to and handling a large amount of sensitive data, companies need to know how secure RPA can be. A fear of hacking is understandable.
Can RPA be hacked? Probably. By the very nature of hacking - abusing vulnerabilities in unforeseen ways to disrupt or damage a company's digital environment - it is impossible to confidently answer this question. Hack-proof systems have been breached numerous times. However, the nature of cybersecurity is as much about avoiding incidents as it is about limiting their scope, controlling the damage, and securing data in such a way that it renders such incidents less impactful. Therefore, while RPA might be hackable, a company can take many measures before that happens to reduce the risk and protect their interests.