This field notes guide explains how Identity Security Posture Management helps manufacturing organizations defend against the sector’s high volume of cyberattacks driven by credential abuse, phishing, malware, and supply chain compromise. It emphasizes that manufacturing environments face unique identity risk due to IT and OT convergence, non-human identities such as IoT devices and automation systems, and limited visibility across complex ecosystems. ISPM is presented as a continuous, proactive security discipline that provides real-time visibility into all human and machine identities, privileges, and risk across applications, plants, and partners, rather than a one-time IAM upgrade. The guide introduces a 12-point framework covering identity integration, analytics, continuous monitoring

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