You already know the math: when a line stops, you lose the repair time, every unit that line would have produced, the labor standing around waiting, and the order you now ship late. And the threats to uptime aren't just mechanical. A ransomware hit that locks up your office network can idle the floor as fast as a broken machine — especially when the systems that run your equipment share a network with email and accounting. Most IT providers treat a manufacturer like an office that happens to have a warehouse.
When control systems, office PCs, and guest WiFi all share one network, a phishing email on a laptop can reach the machines that run production — the exact path to a line-stopping ransomware event.
Without proactive monitoring, patching, and tested backups, an hour of downtime is lost output, not just a help ticket — and recovery is slow when nobody planned for it.
Insurers and larger customers now demand MFA, EDR, tested backups, and access control before they'll write a policy or keep you in the supply chain — and you have to prove it.
A single flat network turns every threat into a plant-wide threat. We put the shop floor on its own protected zone, tightly control what passes between it and the IT side, and monitor the boundary — so systems can talk when they need to and stay walled off when they shouldn't. Uptime and security are the same conversation for a manufacturer, and we run both.
Because a single flat network turns every threat into a plant-wide threat. When control systems, office PCs, and guest WiFi share one network, a phishing email on an office laptop can reach the machines that run production. Segmentation puts the shop floor on its own protected zone, controls what passes between it and the IT side, and contains a breach instead of letting it spread.
Yes — and it's one of the most common ways manufacturers get hurt. Ransomware that encrypts your office systems can idle the floor if production depends on them, and on a flat network the malware can reach control systems directly. The defenses are the same fundamentals good IT security provides: tested backups, endpoint protection, MFA, and segmentation.
It directly supports them. Carriers now require MFA, endpoint detection, tested backups, and access control before they'll write or renew a policy — and your larger customers are starting to require the same in their supply chain. We put those controls in place and document them so you can answer the questionnaire honestly.
If you handle Controlled Unclassified Information anywhere in your DoD supply chain, you're likely on a path to CMMC, and many manufacturers are. The cyber-insurance and segmentation work above overlaps heavily with what CMMC requires. We cover that path in depth on our defense contractors page.
Proactive, monitored IT focused on uptime — patching, backup, recovery, helpdesk.
Shop-floor and office networking with the IT/OT segmentation that contains a breach.
CMMC readiness built on the same controls — for the supply chain you're part of.