Industries · Manufacturing

Manufacturing

For factories, plants, and production teams.

How Aithsense can watch the Windows systems that support design, planning, and production-related activities in manufacturing environments, reducing risk while limiting disruption.

Typical Challenges

  • Windows systems indirectly connected to production lines.
  • Legacy applications that are hard to upgrade or replace.
  • Sensitive design and planning data stored on endpoints.
  • Limited maintenance windows to make security changes.

How Aithsense Can Help

  • Observe behavior on Windows machines used for engineering, planning, and production support.
  • Highlight activity that looks unusual compared to normal usage patterns.
  • Provide investigation timelines that show what happened on key endpoints.
  • Suggest response steps that aim to reduce risk while limiting disruption.
Real-world attacks

It has happened in manufacturing.

Publicly reported incidents in this sector, and where Aithsense's detections apply.

2019

Norsk Hydro (LockerGoga)

LockerGoga ransomware hit the aluminium producer, forcing several plants to switch to manual operation. The company was widely praised for its transparency and put the cost at around $70 million.

Where Aithsense helps

Hunts for the credential theft and Active Directory abuse used to spread ransomware, and gives early warning before encryption reaches production.

2017

NotPetya

Destructive malware spread through a compromised update to Ukrainian accounting software, then worldwide across corporate networks. Manufacturers and logistics firms including Merck and Maersk suffered major outages and losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Where Aithsense helps

Detects worm-like spread, credential harvesting tools and mass remote execution early enough for the Incident Responder agent to isolate hosts in seconds.

2025

Jaguar Land Rover

A cyberattack forced JLR to shut down its IT systems and halt vehicle production in the UK and abroad for weeks, with knock-on effects across its supply chain.

Where Aithsense helps

Hunts the identity abuse and social engineering used against IT service desks, and contains compromised accounts before attackers reach production systems.

Explore Aithsense for Manufacturing

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