Kroll has released its latest report,” The State of Cyber Defense: Manufacturing Cyber Resilience,” which is designed to highlight the unique challenges the manufacturing industry faces and the key ways the industry can become more cyber resilient. According to the company, the new report maps out the cybersecurity threat landscape the manufacturing sector currently operates in, looking at three key areas:
- Detection and response
- Cyber threat intelligence
- Offensive security (OffSec)
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Key Takeaways
- 28% of manufacturing respondents rate their overall cybersecurity program as “very mature”
- 8% of manufacturing industries surveyed employ the most mature capabilities compared to only 5% on average
- Manufacturing organizations appear to be most concerned about ransomware, followed by data leakage and phishing attacks
- Email compromise is the most common threat type, accounting for nearly half of Kroll incidents in the manufacturing industry
- Manufacturing organizations are more inclined to outsource their cybersecurity, which enables them to manage a smaller ecosystem of security platforms
