by Enrique Hernandez | May 22, 2026 | Manufacturing Cybersecurity
A mid-sized injection molding manufacturer had a strange week last spring. Orders from their largest customer were suddenly erratic. Delivery schedules kept changing. Communications from the customer’s buyer went silent for two days. Then the customer called and...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 15, 2026 | Manufacturing Cybersecurity
A packaging manufacturer we know rolled out EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response, the modern replacement for traditional antivirus) across their corporate environment without incident. Encouraged by the result, their IT team deployed the same agent, with the same...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 11, 2026 | Compliance & Frameworks
If your manufacturing firm supplies the Department of Defense and you handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI, the category of sensitive but unclassified data that the federal government needs to protect), you are on the path to CMMC 2.0 Level 2 certification...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 4, 2026 | Manufacturing Cybersecurity
A mid-size food processor we know of had a ransomware event last year that took three days of production offline. The root cause analysis identified the initial access vector pretty quickly. An engineer at their MES (Manufacturing Execution System) integrator had a...
by Enrique Hernandez | Apr 29, 2026 | Manufacturing Cybersecurity
Second shift comes on at your plant. Operators try to log into the MES and get kicked out. A few minutes later, someone sees an unfamiliar message on a server console. Within an hour, file shares are unreadable and the ERP is unresponsive. By the end of the shift,...
