Safeguarding Manufacturing Technology is Essential
Manufacturing faces major ransomware risks that can stop production, disrupt supply chains, and cause costly downtime. Limited visibility across OT systems and air-gapped networks hinders consistent security enforcement across sites, especially with legacy systems lacking cybersecurity. Compliance with ISO 27001 and NIST guidelines highlights the importance of securing SCADA environments through robust access controls, MFA, and continuous system monitoring. Effective management of third-party and temporary worker access is essential to minimise the risk of insider threats.
Risks in Manufacturing
- Ransomware is a significant threat to the manufacturing sector, capable of halting production lines, disrupting supply chains, and causing costly downtime and revenue losses.
- Due to OT systems, central teams often lack the visibility to uniformly enforce policies across different sites, including IoT devices and endpoints.
- In manufacturing environments, air-gapped networks often isolate systems, making it challenging for administrators to enforce consistent security policies across multiple sites. The reliance on legacy systems, originally built without cybersecurity considerations, further increases operational risk.
- Key compliance frameworks like ISO 27001 and NIST provide essential guidance for protecting sensitive information and intellectual property in manufacturing, with a strong focus on securing SCADA environments through role-based access control (RBAC), least privilege, MFA, and continuous monitoring to prevent unauthorised access and insider threats.
- The manufacturing sector often relies on temporary workers or faces high employee turnover. Therefore, securing third-party vendor management and governance is essential.
Secure, Automate, and Stay Compliant with Sectona
- Ensure the Principle of Least Privilege with the Sectona stack, comprising PAM, EPM, and CAM, to prevent breaches and ransomware.
- Automate the generation of audit-ready and downloadable reports with configuration details for seamless compliance reporting, such as ISO and PCI.
- Manage or remove local administrative rights and enable application control across all endpoints in your organisation.
- Manage, secure, and rotate passwords, SSH keys, and secrets within the solution’s purpose-built vault.
- Automate periodic review of entitlements and certification of access.
- Simplify compliance with benchmark-based and auditable least-privilege enforcement, allowing easy export of session recordings and logs to streamline regulatory inspections.