Most manufacturing cyber incidents do not begin on the plant floor. The initial compromise typically occurs in an unremarkable, IT-adjacent system – a phishing email, a vendor’s remote access account, an exposed application server. What happens in the hours that follow determines whether the incident remains in a contained IT

Manufacturing OT environments contain more than PLCs and production equipment. A typical environment can include PLCs, DCS, SCADA, HMI, engineering workstations, MES, historians, enterprise systems, remote access, and third-party connections.  These systems perform different functions and have different relationships with the production process.  That makes OT visibility a broader requirement