Manufacturing
Penetration Testing

The attack that stops a line usually starts in an inbox. Someone in purchasing opens an invoice attachment, the attacker lands on a corporate workstation, and from that point the only question that matters is whether anything actually separates that workstation from the plant floor. Frequently nothing does: a flat network, credentials cached on a shared machine, or a supplier’s standing remote-maintenance connection with a password that has not changed in years. Manufacturing is the most targeted industry for ransomware precisely because downtime converts into lost output immediately, which makes paying look cheaper than recovering.

We test the IT side and the IT/OT boundary, not the controllers themselves. In practice that means starting from a compromised-workstation assumption on the corporate network and measuring how far it goes: Active Directory misconfigurations, credential reuse, lateral movement, and then whether your segmentation genuinely stops traffic headed toward production or merely makes it inconvenient. We also test the doors an outsider knocks on first — VPN gateways, exposed remote desktop, supplier and vendor access portals, and how the multi-factor implementation behaves when someone tries to work around it. The application work targets the systems the business actually runs on rather than the marketing site: supplier portals, customer ordering systems, and inventory dashboards. Cloud review covers the IAM policies and network controls wrapped around ERP and supply chain workloads in AWS, Azure, or GCP. Every boundary is agreed with your operations team before testing begins, so nothing we run reaches live control systems.

You get an experienced tester on the engagement, a report that ranks findings by operational impact rather than raw scanner severity, and the scope, methodology, risk ratings, and remediation evidence cyber insurance carriers now ask for at renewal. Retesting is free within 30 days, and we can typically start within 24 hours of authorization. We work with organizations across the Charlotte, NC area and nationwide.