When the factory stops, everything stops.
Manufacturing is where cyber meets physical. A ransomware attack doesn't just encrypt files, it shuts down production lines, delays shipments, and costs millions per day in lost output. STS secures the convergence of IT and OT environments with programs designed for industrial operations.
The reality facing manufacturing.
Manufacturing is the most targeted industry for ransomware, surpassing even healthcare and financial services. The convergence of IT and operational technology (OT), reliance on legacy SCADA and ICS systems, just-in-time supply chains, and the catastrophic cost of production downtime create a perfect storm for attackers who know manufacturers will pay to resume operations.
What keeps manufacturing leaders up at night.
OT/IT Convergence Risk
Connecting industrial control systems to IT networks for efficiency and monitoring has created attack paths from corporate email directly to production-floor PLCs. The air gap is gone, but the security architecture still assumes it exists.
Legacy SCADA/ICS Systems
Production systems running Windows XP, unpatched HMIs, PLCs with default passwords, industrial control systems were designed for reliability and longevity, not cybersecurity. Many can't be patched without shutting down production.
Ransomware Targeting Production
Attackers specifically target manufacturers because production downtime is catastrophically expensive. Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, Toyota, the playbook is proven and the payoffs are massive.
Supply Chain Attacks
Manufacturers are both targets and vectors for supply chain attacks. A compromised supplier introduces risk into your production. A breach in your systems introduces risk into your customers' operations.
CMMC for Defense Manufacturing
Defense contractors in manufacturing face CMMC certification requirements that overlay onto industrial environments never designed for the security controls NIST 800-171 demands.
We understand that you can't patch a PLC during a production run, that OT networks have different availability requirements than IT networks, and that the person managing the SCADA system is a process engineer, not a security analyst. Our solutions respect industrial operations reality.
Solutions built for manufacturing.
OT Security Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your industrial control environment, asset inventory, network architecture review, vulnerability assessment, and risk analysis. We identify the critical risks without disrupting production.
Network Segmentation & Architecture
Design and implement Purdue Model-aligned network segmentation that isolates OT from IT while maintaining the data flows that operations need. Prevent lateral movement from corporate networks to production systems.
Industrial Monitoring
Passive OT network monitoring that detects anomalous behavior in industrial protocols without introducing latency or risk to production systems. We see threats in your OT environment without touching your PLCs.
Manufacturing Incident Response
IR plans that account for production continuity, safety system integrity, and supply chain notification requirements. Because in manufacturing, the incident response has to protect people and processes, not just data.
Supply Chain Risk Management
Evaluate supplier cybersecurity posture, implement vendor security requirements, and monitor critical supply chain partners for indicators of compromise. Aligned to NIST 800-161.
CMMC for Manufacturing
CMMC readiness programs designed for manufacturing environments where CUI lives on production-floor systems, engineering workstations, and shop-floor terminals that don't fit neatly into traditional IT security controls.
Framework-mapped. Audit-ready.
“A precision manufacturing company with 200 employees implemented OT network segmentation and passive monitoring, detecting and blocking a ransomware attempt that entered through a compromised vendor VPN before it reached any production systems.”