Industrial Manufacturing Industry Overview
As modern life becomes increasingly dependent on industrial control systems (ICS), it becomes more important than ever to secure them. However, while more connectivity means more convenience, it also means more vulnerability.
SCADA systems, old OT and new IT environments, and even your manufacturing floor all depend on reliable, secure moving parts that do what they are expected to do — day in and day out. State-of-the-art cybersecurity protocols enable modern industrial systems to meet production requirements, combat state-sponsored threats, and continue to underpin the modern economy.
From network monitoring to document management and automated compliance, the right cybersecurity protocols keep the industrial sector going — so it can continue to keep us going.
Protecting Manufacturing Organizations
The Challenge
All manufacturers must have strategies in place to ensure the free flow of information across their supply chains but must also safeguard that information from industrial espionage, nation-state adversaries, and malicious insiders. Manufacturers are also under pressure to meet increasingly stringent export requirements such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
Manufacturers' most valuable IP often comes in the form of unstructured data, such as CAD files, source code, and formulas. The problem is that many cybersecurity solutions lack the ability to recognize or protect such data.
Our Solution
Business-critical data and intellectual property held in CAD tools and document management systems need a data-centric security approach to reliably stay in safe hands. Fortra's Data Protection solutions lie at the core of this approach, allowing manufacturing organizations to stop IP theft and help them share data securely across their supply chain.
Our out-of-the-box dashboards and an integrated rapid start-up enable manufacturers to quickly identify structured and unstructured sensitive data, effectively classify that data, and enforce security policies to proactively prevent security incidents and data breaches. From data discovery, to deep visibility, to metadata-driven insights and accurate policy enforcement, organizational leaders can rest assured that our solutions will deliver end-to-end security, from your endpoints to your cloud environment. Meanwhile, our Vulnerability Management and Integrity & Compliance Monitoring solutions will locate and mitigate potentially exploitable vulnerabilities, manage your security configurations, and ensure immediate and long-lasting compliance.
The Benefits of Cybersecurity in Industrial Manufacturing
IT/OT Integration
Safely integrate old OT and new IT environments with critical security controls
Safely integrate old OT and new IT environments with critical security controls
Simplify Compliance
Get built-in templates covering the standards, security policies, and regulatory compliance requirements for industrial control systems (ICS)
Get built-in templates covering the standards, security policies, and regulatory compliance requirements for industrial control systems (ICS)
Prevent Production Slowdowns
Secure controllers, network devices, Active Directory, data historians, and more without jeopardizing productivity
Secure controllers, network devices, Active Directory, data historians, and more without jeopardizing productivity
Complete Network Mapping
Gain visibility into your network of industrial manufacturing facilities around the world
Gain visibility into your network of industrial manufacturing facilities around the world
Detect Anomalous Behavior
Surface stealthy attacks with continuous threat detection and behavioral monitoring
Surface stealthy attacks with continuous threat detection and behavioral monitoring
Fortra Solutions for Industrial Manufacturing Organizations
Data Types We Protect
Fortra’s Manufacturing Cybersecurity Case Studies
Fortra is on the front lines of securing manufacturing services in cyberspace. Here are a few examples of our commitment.
Large Manufacturer Defends Against a $400M Breach
A $30b manufacturing and consumer goods company with over 60,000 employees relied on intellectual property to maintain their advantage in a competitive market. When a senior research scientist left, he downloaded over 20,000 sensitive documents and took at least 150 of those to his new employer. The organization estimated the cost of the data breach at $400 million.
Pen Test Harvests 900 User Credentials from Multi-National Manufacturer
A pen tester tasked with completing an internal penetration test on a large, multi-national manufacturer used Core Impact and Cobalt Strike to gain access to first thirteen machines, then a couple hundred, and ended by taking over the entire domain—after a previous pen test had revealed "nothing in particular."
Manufacturer Reduces Phishing Click Rate by 20%
Reliably deploying multilingual cybersecurity training that thousands of worldwide employees—speaking a combination of English, French, German, Mandarin, Spanish, and Thai—will enjoy and complete is a difficult ask. That was the challenge a global manufacturing company faced as increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, phishing scams, and other security risks threatened their overall performance.
Fortra Secures Design Files of Large Footwear & Apparel Manufacturer
A large footwear and apparel manufacturer sought to protect highly sensitive design files and intellectual property as those files moved internally within the organization, as well as when they were sent to partners and third-parties in different countries. With that in mind, the organization aimed to balance between two competing demands: securing IP and facilitating employee collaboration and productivity.
Secure Industrial Manufacturing with Fortra
Industrial manufacturing is of critical concern to both communities and cybercriminals alike. Find out how Fortra can help you mature your ICS systems today.