With siloed IT and operational technology (OT) systems, manufacturing organizations face unique cybersecurity challenges. They need comprehensive security operations solutions that enhance visibility, integrate seamlessly with both environments, and provide real-time threat intelligence for swift incident resolution.
Manufacturing organizations must safeguard their attack surface from threat actors aiming to steal data or cause downtime. Below are some of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges they face, highlighting the complexities and risks associated with their IT and OT environments.
With Industry 4.0, manufacturers still using older operating systems like Microsoft XP or Vista face increased potential vulnerabilities due to the integration of advanced technologies.
Because OT is typically on an isolated network, IT has no visibility into OT systems, reducing its ability to detect potential malicious activity.
The difficulty of connecting isolated IT and OT toolsets like SCADA means forces analysts to spend more time pivoting between them to investigate alerts, slowing response times.
Threat actors perceive manufacturers as more willing to pay ransoms to prevent downtime, making them a high-value target for phishing and ransomware—ransomware attacks targeting manufacturing have risen nearly 30% in the last year.
Read the Case StudyWith GreyMatter, my team doesn’t have to do a lot of chair swiveling; we can see everything happening on one platform, which has enabled us to quickly identify and respond to threats.
ReliaQuest GreyMatter provides security operations solutions for the manufacturing industry, addressing critical cybersecurity needs through advanced monitoring, enhanced visibility, enriched incident response, and up-to-date threat intelligence.
GreyMatter integrates with your IT and OT infrastructure to monitor vulnerabilities and provide new visibility into potential cyber threats.
GreyMatter leverages bi-directional integrations with IT and OT security systems and data stitching to enrich incidents with data from other tools and threat intelligence, saving analysts time and accelerating response.
With nearly 70% of attacks against organizations in the manufacturing sector involving spearphishing, GreyMatter Phishing Analyzer effectively mitigates this threat by automating the entire phishing defense process for user-reported emails.
The Model Index report in GreyMatter provides clear, understandable metrics to easily communicate value to the business.
Seamlessly integrate GreyMatter into your existing security operations tech stack to enhance visibility across your tools and gain the context and insights you need to operationalize security and protect your business.
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ReliaQuest is the augmentation dream team for detection and response teams. They offer a concise platter of options from detection and response to hunting, automation, and platform pivoting . And for the truly technical detection and response teams, they understand and display the skills we expect."Cyber Defense Manager, $7.4B Global Consumer Goods Manufacturer
One of the areas we’ve recognized big time savings with GreyMatter is through the Microsoft Office 365 integration. The automation playbooks allow us to perform actions in less than 2 minutes, instead of having to log into the O365 console every time we want to so something simple like block a suspicious email address, which takes 2-3x longer.Director of Security, Fortune 1000 Global Manufacturing Company
When you have visibility into all your data regardless of where it lives, it allows for the use of automation, which significantly cuts down on response time. It's kept our team focused on the highest and most critical risks to our organization. We've been able to achieve extraordinary results with ReliaQuest and GreyMatter.CISO, Fortune 500 Industrial Manufacturing
GreyMatter enhances security operations for manufacturing organizations by integrating both OT and IT environments to reduce tool pivoting, improve visibility, and help your team better manage risk. See it in action to experience how GreyMatter can optimize your security operations and help you better manage risk.
