Manufacturing cybersecurity training built for every role
Protect production, strengthen your workforce and stay ahead of today's threats. Infosec helps manufacturers build cybersecurity capabilities across every role — from employees identifying phishing attacks to IT and cybersecurity teams protecting connected OT.
Why security awareness matters in manufacturing
As cybercriminals target credentials, employees and interconnected systems in manufacturing environments, security awareness training helps your workforce recognize threats early and make safer decisions that protect operations.
27.7% of incidents
Manufacturing was the most targeted industry for the fifth consecutive year.
(IBM X-Force 2026)
56% of breaches
Human behavior remains a major factor in manufacturing breaches.
(Verizon DBIR 2026)
4x supply chain growth
A growing risk for manufacturers reliant on interconnected suppliers and systems.
(IBM X-Force 2026)
Top manufacturing cybersecurity threats
Modern manufacturing environments create a wide attack surface. Connected technology, valuable data and complex supply chains require organizations to prepare for cyber threats across both people and systems.
Ransomware & operational disruption
Attackers know manufacturers depend on uptime. Ransomware and extortion can interrupt production, restrict access to critical systems and create costly operational delays.
IT & OT vulnerabilities
As traditional IT systems and operational technology become more connected, weaknesses in one environment can create risk for the other. Teams need the knowledge to understand and protect increasingly interconnected systems.
Supply chain attacks
Manufacturers rely on extensive networks of suppliers, software providers and other third parties. Compromised accounts, systems or software elsewhere in the supply chain can introduce risk into your environment.
Intellectual property theft
Product designs, proprietary processes, research and other intellectual property make manufacturers attractive targets. Building cybersecurity awareness and capability across your workforce helps protect the information your business depends on.
How cybersecurity impacts manufacturing environments
Cybersecurity readiness helps manufacturers protect production, sensitive data and connected systems.
- Keep production running: Prepare your workforce to recognize, prevent and respond to threats that can interrupt critical manufacturing operations.
- Protect critical data & intellectual property: Build the awareness and technical capabilities needed to better protect proprietary processes, designs, credentials and other sensitive information.
- Strengthen IT and OT cybersecurity: Develop cybersecurity capabilities across the teams responsible for protecting connected business systems, industrial environments and critical infrastructure.
- Prepare your workforce to respond: Give employees, technical teams and leaders training relevant to the cyber risks and responsibilities they face.
Build cybersecurity readiness across every manufacturing role
Cybersecurity isn't the responsibility of one team. Effective manufacturing cybersecurity requires employees, technical professionals and leaders to understand the risks they face and how to respond.
Employees and plant-floor teams
Build awareness about phishing, social engineering, credential theft and other attacks that can put your people, data and operations at risk.
IT and cybersecurity teams
Develop the capabilities to defend interconnected environments, respond to incidents and protect the systems your organization depends on.
OT and ICS professionals
Build deeper knowledge of operational technology, industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) environments and the cybersecurity threats affecting modern production.
Security and business leaders
Strengthen cyber workforce readiness with role-based development that supports operational resilience, cybersecurity requirements and evolving business risk.
How do manufacturers become more cyber secure?
Building manufacturing cybersecurity readiness takes more than one type of training. Strengthen your defenses by preparing employees to recognize threats, reducing risky behaviors and developing the technical capabilities your cybersecurity workforce needs to protect critical environments.
How Infosec supports manufacturing
Building cybersecurity readiness across a manufacturing workforce requires ongoing training that can scale with your organization. Infosec helps you manage learning across teams and locations, keep training aligned to changing risks and track progress over time.
- Make ongoing training easier to manage: Use pre-built programs, automation, learning paths and reporting to deliver training across teams and locations without creating unnecessary administrative work.
- Keep pace as cyber risks change: Give your workforce access to current learning that addresses foundational cybersecurity practices, evolving attack techniques and emerging technologies.
- Track progress across your workforce: Monitor training participation, completion and program performance so leaders and administrators have greater visibility into cybersecurity development across the organization.
Manufacturing cybersecurity compliance & frameworks
Manufacturers may need to address multiple cybersecurity frameworks, standards and contractual requirements. Training helps your workforce understand its responsibilities and develop the necessary capabilities to support your broader cybersecurity and compliance program.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 provides a risk-based approach organized around six Functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
NIST has also developed manufacturing-specific guidance to help organizations apply the framework to manufacturing environments.
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
Manufacturers working within the U.S. Department of Defense supply chain may need to meet applicable Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements based on the information they handle and their contractual obligations.
IEC 62443
The IEC 62443 series addresses cybersecurity for industrial automation and control systems and can help organizations establish security practices for industrial environments.
ISO 27001
ISO/IEC 27001 provides requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system.
Build your 12-month security awareness program
Manufacturing security awareness training, mapped out for you
Keep security top of mind throughout the year with a ready-to-use security awareness plan designed for manufacturing organizations.
The 12-month plan helps you build a recurring program with security awareness training, phishing simulations and reinforcement activities covering relevant cybersecurity topics throughout the year.
Ready to strengthen manufacturing cybersecurity?
Build cybersecurity readiness across the roles that keep your organization running. Talk with an Infosec advisor about training for your employees, cybersecurity professionals and technical teams.
Frequently asked questions
Why is cybersecurity important in manufacturing?
Manufacturers depend on connected systems, reliable production and valuable intellectual property. A cybersecurity incident can disrupt operations, compromise sensitive information or create risk across interconnected IT and OT environments.
Building cybersecurity readiness across employees and technical teams helps protect the people, systems and information your organization depends on.
What cybersecurity training do manufacturing employees need?
Training should reflect each employee's role and exposure to cybersecurity risk.
Employees across the organization benefit from ongoing security awareness training covering topics such as phishing, social engineering, credential security and safe technology use. IT, cybersecurity and OT professionals need deeper technical training aligned to the systems, technologies and responsibilities they manage.
For manufacturers, ongoing awareness training can reinforce safer behavior across corporate offices, production environments and distributed locations while supporting a broader culture of shared cybersecurity responsibility.
How does the NIST Cybersecurity Framework apply to manufacturing?
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides a voluntary, risk-based approach for managing cybersecurity risk. It organizes cybersecurity outcomes around six Functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
NIST's Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Manufacturing Profile applies those principles specifically to manufacturing environments, including operational technology, industrial control systems and other manufacturing systems.
Security awareness and training are also included within the Protect Function of CSF 2.0, making workforce education an important part of a broader cybersecurity risk management program.
Can Infosec help manufacturers meet security awareness training requirements?
Infosec IQ helps organizations deliver and document ongoing security awareness training across their workforce. It includes role-based training, phishing simulations, automated programs and reporting that can support security awareness requirements within broader compliance and cybersecurity programs.
How can manufacturers improve cybersecurity readiness?
Manufacturers can strengthen cybersecurity readiness by combining effective security controls with ongoing workforce development. That includes building security awareness across the organization, developing technical capabilities, preparing IT and OT teams for their responsibilities and adapting training as risks change.