The Global Manufacturing Threat Perspective highlights escalating cyber risks across the sector, driven by poor IT‑OT authentication practices, limited logging and visibility, and exploitable OT vulnerabilities. Ransomware and hacktivist activity continue to disrupt operations, with several OT‑impacting incidents recorded from 2022 to 2023. Dragos also tracks multiple threat groups targeting manufacturing environments. To strengthen defenses, organizations should improve network segmentation, enhance monitoring, secure domain authentication across zones, manage transient assets, and adopt critical ICS cybersecurity controls to reduce exposure and improve incident response readiness.

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