{"id":204893,"date":"2026-04-22T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/why-manufacturing-companies-are-most-vulnerable-to-hacking\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:15","slug":"why-manufacturing-companies-are-most-vulnerable-to-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/why-manufacturing-companies-are-most-vulnerable-to-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Why manufacturing companies are most vulnerable to hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/x-force-threat-intelligence-index-manufacturing-most-vulnerable-hacking\">Why manufacturing companies are most vulnerable to hacking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/x-force-threat-intelligence-index-manufacturing-most-vulnerable-hacking\">https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/x-force-threat-intelligence-index-manufacturing-most-vulnerable-hacking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 15:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ibm.com\">www.ibm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.<br \/>\n    The second attack surface, according to Ahola, is connected products. \u201cIn consumer-facing segments such as automotive and consumer electronics, the number of endpoints can easily be in the millions, and companies have no control over the environments the connected products get exposed to,\u201d he said. Essentially, manufacturing companies face heightened cybersecurity risk because it isn\u2019t enough to protect just the mainframes, software and data that make up any IT system. Each \u201cjoint\u201d in the chain of manufacturing steps presents yet another potential point of entry for attack.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s index also contains some eyebrow-raising findings that seem to confirm the old adage that the vast majority of security threats\u2014from old-time espionage to the present-day AI-generated deepfakes\u2014are based on\u00a0openly available sources. For example, X-Force saw a 44% increase between 2024 and 2025 in the exploitation of public-facing data\u2014a broad category that includes a company\u2019s public website, sales brochures and social media postings.<br \/>\nThe good news is that there are plenty of measures manufacturing companies can take to mitigate risk. For starters, Ahola said, organizations need to \u201ctake a holistic approach to cybersecurity, covering all of IT, OT and connected products.\u201d Additionally, he advises against fragmented security practices. \u201cCurrently, too many companies have separate security organizations for each [department], leading to cracks in the armor and slower ability to detect attacks, as you can\u2019t correlate incidents across your entire business.\u201d In other words, in an industry riddled with large and varied attack surfaces, siloing adds insult to injury.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why manufacturing companies are most vulnerable to hacking https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/x-force-threat-intelligence-index-manufacturing-most-vulnerable-hacking Publish Date: 2026-04-22 15:36:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/content\/dam\/connectedassets-adobe-cms\/worldwide-content\/creative-assets\/ibs\/ul\/g\/c7\/23\/20230605_ibm_thomasprior_albany_1122.jpg\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-204893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204895,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204893\/revisions\/204895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}