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Manufacturing & Industrial
Unsupervised vendor access to plant systems is the entry point in a growing share of industrial ransomware. Close it without slowing the line.
The pressure
What this sector is up against
Manufacturers run converged IT/OT estates - ERP, MES and engineering workstations alongside plant-floor systems - maintained by OEM and integrator engineers who need remote access to equipment they supplied. Manufacturing is now among the most ransomware-targeted sectors, and unsupervised, always-on vendor access is the common entry point. Customer security audits and IEC 62443 expectations increasingly ask manufacturers to prove exactly who can reach production systems, and what they did there.
Frameworks that apply
How Tanflow helps
Controls mapped to this sector's reality
OEM and integrator engineers reach plant and engineering systems through a recorded, command-controlled gateway - not standing VPNs.
Remote maintenance runs inside approved, time-boxed windows tied to work orders, then expires automatically.
BLOCK + TERMINATE policies stop dangerous operations on production databases, servers and engineering systems before they execute.
Connection groups isolate sites, lines and cells so an engineer sees only the systems in their scope.
Session replays and command logs prove controlled access for customer security audits and OT security programmes.
In practice
A machine OEM and a midnight breakdown
A packaging-line OEM must connect remotely to diagnose a stalled machine. With Tanflow: the plant grants a scoped JIT session approved by the shift engineer; the OEM connects through the browser gateway with vaulted credentials, seeing only that line's systems; risky commands are blocked and the whole session is recorded; access ends when the line is running again. The next customer security audit sees a controlled, replayable record - not an open vendor tunnel.
Business outcomes
What it means for the business
Security, compliance and efficiency in the same motion - the results leadership and auditors both care about.
- Ransomware's favourite entry point - unsupervised vendor access - closed
- OEM and integrator engineers reach only the lines and cells in their scope
- Destructive commands on production and plant systems blocked outright
- Customer and IEC 62443 security audits answered with session evidence
- Remote maintenance kept fast, but time-boxed and fully recorded
Live in 2-4 weeks
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