Threat Alert CenterLearn More About Our Detection and Response Services
Your production environment and your enterprise network are now one attack surface
Industry 4.0 has connected plant-floor systems to enterprise networks, cloud platforms, and supplier ecosystems. That connectivity drives efficiency, and it has made manufacturing the most attacked industry on earth. Most security providers cover IT or OT. Kudelski Security covers both.
Plant-floor systems that were isolated by design are now connected to enterprise networks, cloud platforms, and supplier portals. OT environments run on systems with 15–30 year lifespans, many are dependent on operating systems no longer receiving security updates, with patch cycles constrained by production schedules.
When ransomware enters this environment, it does not stop at the IT boundary, it reaches production systems, halts output, and generates operational and financial consequences that no IT recovery plan was designed to address.
Modern manufacturing depends on deep digital integration with suppliers, logistics partners, and software vendors. Each integration point is a potential entry path. A compromise at a single node, a parts supplier, a software provider, a remote access credential, can propagate across your entire value chain without touching your own systems.
At global manufacturing scale, third-party cyber risk cannot be managed through periodic questionnaires. It requires continuous monitoring across every supplier and every connection.
Ransomware that reaches an OT environment stops production lines.
The cost is measured in halted output, missed delivery windows, and contractual penalties, not breach notifications. In manufacturing, downtime is the incident.
A compromise at one node in your supply chain propagates to customers, suppliers, and partners.
When digital dependencies run deep across thousands of integration points, a breach anywhere has consequences everywhere.
Forty percent of cyberattacks on manufacturers involve theft of IP theft: product designs, process formulas, and trade secrets (IBM X-Force, 2025).
IP theft does not disrupt today's production. It undermines tomorrow's competitive position.
NIS2, CIRCIA, CMMC 2.0, and SEC disclosure rules are converging simultaneously.
A material incident at a publicly traded manufacturer is now public within four business days of that determination, with immediate investor and media consequences.
Manufacturers operating across the US and EU face overlapping mandatory obligations with hard deadlines and material penalties.
Most security providers extend IT tooling into OT as an afterthought.
Kudelski Security covers both natively.
Our MDR for OT is built on the Claroty platform, recognized by Gartner as a Leader in Cyber-Physical Systems Protection, and delivered by analysts who understand industrial environments.
We hold Claroty Emerging Partner of the Year recognition for EMEA.
Twenty-four percent of manufacturing sites have no OT/ICS incident response plan.
Our 24/7 Incident Response retainer provides guaranteed response capacity from the moment an incident is declared, with analysts already familiar with your environment.
Kudelski Security has been recognized seven consecutive times as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for DFIR Retainer Services.
A Forrester Total Economic Impact study of Kudelski Security's MDR service documented $15.98 million in net present value over three years, including $3.9 million in SOC cost avoidance and $13.5 million in improved detection value, with 249% RoI and a breakeven point of under six months.
Tailored solutions with Industry expertise
Manufacturing is the most attacked industry worldwide, absorbing 27.7% of all global cyberattacks (IBM X-Force, 2025). Industry 4.0 connected once-isolated plant-floor systems to enterprise networks, cloud platforms, and supplier ecosystems, and attackers exploit that convergence because manufacturers have low tolerance for downtime and often pay to resume production quickly.
IT security protects data and business systems. OT security protects the industrial control systems, PLCs, and SCADA that run production lines. OT assets often have 15–30 year lifespans, run unsupported operating systems, and cannot be patched on normal cycles or host security agents. Kudelski Security covers both IT and OT from its Cyber Fusion Centers, so ransomware that crosses from one domain to the other is detected and contained.
When ransomware reaches an OT environment it stops production lines. 75% of ransomware incidents in industrial environments cause some OT disruption (Dragos, 2025). The cost is measured in halted output, missed delivery windows, and contractual penalties rather than breach-notification fees. In manufacturing, downtime is the incident.
Manufacturers operating across the US and EU face NIS2 (72-hour incident reporting, penalties up to €10 million or 2% of global turnover), CIRCIA, CMMC 2.0 for defense-adjacent suppliers, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and SEC disclosure rules for public companies. IEC 62443 is the reference standard for industrial control system security and is increasingly required in supply-chain contracts and cyber-insurance assessments.
Modern manufacturing depends on deep digital integration with suppliers, logistics partners, and software vendors, and a compromise at any node can propagate across the value chain without touching your own systems. Periodic questionnaires cannot manage risk at this scale. Kudelski Security combines third-party risk management with continuous attack surface and credential-leak monitoring across every supplier and connection.
Managed detection and response for OT is 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, and response purpose-built for industrial environments. Kudelski Security's service is built on the Claroty cyber-physical platform, recognized by Gartner as a Leader in Cyber-Physical Systems Protection, and uses passive, non-intrusive detection that respects the safety and availability constraints of legacy OT assets.
Safeguard IP, secure your supply chain, and prevent espionage-driven disruptions with Kudelski Security’s tailored solutions.
