1H 2026 Examination of Cyber Hostility and Operations

Unified Cyber Defense for the Manufacturing Industry

Protect production environments, secure critical systems, and stop identity-driven attacks across the entire manufacturing supply chain.

139%

Manufacturing organizations saw a 139% increase in targeted attack incidents from 2024 to 2025.

$5.56M

At $5.56M, manufacturing had the third-highest average breach cost, behind healthcare and financial services.

#1

Manufacturing is the #1 targeted industry four years in a row, representing 26% of all incidents.

How Cynet Secures the Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturers operate in one of the most targeted and operationally fragile sectors. Widely distributed environments, aging systems, mixed cloud and on-prem infrastructure, and identity sprawl make it difficult for security teams to maintain visibility and resilience.

Production uptime, intellectual property protection, and supply chain integrity depend on preventing cyberattacks and disruptions. Yet adversaries increasingly leverage credential misuse, ransomware, lateral movement across systems, and vulnerabilities in third-party integrations.

Why Manufacturers Choose Cynet

Select a risk to see how Cynet responds.

The Risk

Protect Production Lines, Critical Systems, and Plant-Floor Identities

Manufacturing environments feature a mix of legacy equipment, specialized user accounts, machine identities, and modern cloud-based systems. Attackers often target these identities to manipulate production logic or gain access to the environment.

Cynet's response

Cynet secures manufacturing operations by continuously monitoring high-risk identities across critical systems, terminals, engineering workstations, and remote maintenance accounts. Through CyAI and Cynet's 24x7 CyOps MDR team, compromised identities and endpoints are automatically isolated, keeping production moving and production networks secure.

  • Identity
  • Endpoint
  • CyAI
  • CyOps 24x7 MDR
The Risk

Prevent Ransomware & Downtime Across Production Environments

Ransomware can halt manufacturing operations, freeze plant-floor systems, disrupt robotics and PLC communications, and cascade through global supply chains.

Cynet's response

Cynet protects production uptime through early detection of ransomware and anomalous behavior across endpoints, engineering tools, critical systems, and network traffic. Leveraging SOAR playbooks to rapidly contain threats and isolate impacted devices, Cynet supports uptime and security across production environments.

  • Endpoint
  • Network
  • SOAR
The Risk

Secure the Supply Chain, Third-Party Access, and Distributed Facilities

Manufacturers rely on complex supply-chain partnerships, contractors, and remote integrators who often require elevated access, making them perfect targets for adversaries.

Cynet's response

Cynet strengthens supply chain resilience by monitoring identity behavior and privilege changes across all remote access points and detecting anomalous connections, data exfiltration attempts, and adjacent network scanning via NDR and UBA. By enforcing least-privilege access, Cynet prevents unauthorized changes to production logic and manufacturing systems.

  • Identity
  • NDR
  • UBA
The Risk

Secure the Supply Chain, Third-Party Access, and Distributed Facilities

Intellectual property is the most valuable asset in manufacturing, making R&D environments a prime target for attackers.

Cynet's response

Cynet secures high-value assets by detecting unauthorized file access, suspicious process behavior, and anomalous data transfer activity. By correlating signals across endpoints, cloud apps, network traffic, and end-user behavior, Cynet can automatically block malicious domains, isolate compromised accounts, and stop exfiltration attempts.

  • Endpoint
  • Cloud apps
  • Network
  • User behavior
The Risk

Maintain Compliance & Audit Readiness Across Manufacturing Environments

Regulatory and insurer demands around visibility, logging, and response capability continue to rise for manufacturing systems.

Cynet's response

Cynet supports manufacturers' compliance and regulatory requirements by delivering audit-ready visibility across endpoints, users, identities, cloud, and network, and automating log collection and compliance reporting through CLM and SIEM. Cynet provides clear attack timelines, IOCs, and remediation instructions via CyAI and our 24x7 CyOps MDR team.

  • CLM
  • SIEM
  • CyAI
  • CyOps 24x7 MDR

Where Operational Efficiency Meets Unified Cyber Defense

Manufacturers often manage security with teams stretched across front office, supply chain, and plant floor responsibilities, all while confronting threats that continue to evolve in speed, scale, and sophistication. Cynet removes operational strain by delivering broad, unified protection without the overhead of managing multiple tools. Manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and assemblers can finally strengthen security without slowing production or overextending their teams.

Endpoint Security

EPP · EDR

Blocks malware and fileless attacks at execution.

Identity Security

ITDR · UEBA

Catches credential theft and account takeover in progress.

Network Security

NDR

Spots command-and-control traffic, then isolates the host.

Email Security

Inbound · Internal

Stops phishing and weaponized attachments before delivery.

Cloud & SaaS Security

CSPM · SSPM

Finds misconfigurations and risky permissions across cloud and SaaS.

Mobile Protection

iOS · Android

Extends the same protection to phones and tablets.

Security Automation

AI SOC Method · CyOps + CyAI

Combines AI-powered detection and remediation with expert human judgment to deliver faster, more accurate security operation.

CyOps 24x7 MDR

Managed Detection & Response

24x7 expert monitoring, investigation, and response from Cynet's MDR team.

Schedule a call with an expert to learn why manufacturing organizations trust Cynet.

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