Manufacturing
Manufacturers face a unique double exposure. Direct downtime cost from line stoppage measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour, and longer term damage to customer and supplier relationships. Industrial control systems were designed for isolated operation, and that isolation is increasingly an illusion. We help manufacturers secure production with engagement models that respect change windows and never block the line.
Sector specific challenges
OT and IT convergence without security
Office networks bridging into production networks is now standard practice for analytics, predictive maintenance, and remote support. Without proper segmentation it becomes a single attack path from a phishing email to a stopped production line.
Supply chain and connected product security
Manufacturers increasingly ship connected products and rely on third party software in production systems. Both ends of the supply chain create attack surface that does not appear on the corporate network diagram.
Targeted ransomware on production
Multiple public incidents have shown ransomware operators specifically targeting production scheduling and MES platforms. Recovery requires tested immutable backups and a playbook prepared for the specific systems that run the floor.
Our approach
Work with manufacturing clients starts with infrastructure inventory across OT and IT, segmentation review against the Purdue model, and ransomware readiness assessment focused on production systems. Then we layer industrial protocol monitoring, EDR on the corporate side, and an IR retainer briefed on the specific production stack.
Recommended services
Managed Detection and Response
SOC that takes action, not just sends alerts.
→Security Audit and Risk Assessment
An honest picture of where your defenses really stand.
→OT and Industrial Control Security
Securing OT and ICS without stopping production.
→Hardware and Embedded Security
Security review of IoT, embedded firmware, and hardware products.
→Ransomware Readiness
Validated readiness against modern ransomware operators.
→Incident Response Retainer
Pre arranged IR capacity for when an incident actually hits.
→Standards and regulators
Frequently asked questions
Can security work proceed without a production stop?
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Almost always yes. We use passive monitoring on the production side, schedule any active testing for planned maintenance windows, and run a clear escalation path with operations leads to abort any test that risks the line.
How do you handle legacy PLCs and HMIs that cannot be patched?
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Compensating controls. Tight segmentation around the legacy assets, monitoring for the protocols they speak, and strict change control on anything that touches them. The goal is to make exploitation impractical even though the legacy system itself stays in place.