Manufacturing IT
Protecting a business where downtime is measured in units not produced.
Manufacturers need the standard controls — MFA, endpoint detection, email security, patching, tested immutable backups — plus segmentation between office systems and production equipment. Much plant equipment runs unsupported operating systems that cannot be patched, so the practical control is isolating it, restricting what it can talk to, and being able to recover production systems quickly.
Production equipment often runs old Windows versions the machine vendor will not let you touch. You cannot patch your way out of that, so you contain it: separate VLANs, firewall policy that permits only the traffic the machine requires, no direct internet access, and controlled vendor remote access instead of a permanent open tunnel.
Plant staff share terminals, work in gloves, and rotate across shifts. Security models designed for office knowledge workers fail here and get bypassed.
We design account models, MFA methods and session behavior that plant employees can actually follow, which is the difference between a policy and a workaround.
When a manufacturer is hit, the loss is production hours plus the cost of restarting a stopped process. Recovery priority matters: ERP and receiving usually come first, because nothing else can start without them.
We build recovery order into the plan rather than deciding it during an incident.
Common questions
It can be, with a controlled path: dedicated account, restricted destination, MFA, logging and access that is enabled when needed rather than left permanently open.
It can be isolated and monitored, which is the realistic control when patching or replacing is not an option.
We review your network, security posture, cloud tenant and recovery plan, then hand you a plain-language report of what we found and what it means for the business.
