How Legacy Manufacturing Systems Make a Hacker’s Job Easy
  • Outdated manufacturing systems are an easy target for ransomware, crippling production lines. Securing legacy systems is critical to avoid costly business disruption and data breaches.
  • Phishing is the main entry for attackers in manufacturing, leading to 87% of all incidents. Employee training is crucial to prevent these threats and protect critical systems.
  • To combat ransomware and phishing, manufacturing must use multi-layered defenses. These include employee training, network segmentation, and strong authentication to build resilience.

As we see in the Trustwave SpiderLabs 2025 Manufacturing 2.0 Threat Report, the manufacturing sector is facing a rapidly increasing number of cyber threats with ransomware and phishing attacks being the attacker’s primary weapon.