IT & Security for Manufacturing

Purpose-built managed IT for manufacturers: protecting production floors, meeting regulatory obligations, and giving boards the visibility they need.

NIS2 is coming. Your auditors are asking questions about IT controls. Your board wants security posture reports. And your current IT provider is not equipped to answer any of it.

Manufacturers face a particular challenge: the intersection of operational technology on the factory floor with cybersecurity threats that grow more sophisticated every quarter. You need a partner who understands compliance readiness, auditor confidence, and board-level reporting – not just ticket resolution.

Sound familiar?

These are the challenges we hear from manufacturing clients every week.

Production floor devices need the same protection as office laptops

NIS2 and industry auditors are asking questions your current IT provider cannot answer

Board wants monthly security posture reports but you have no way to generate them

Previous IT providers treated you as a small account with generic service

Endpoint sprawl across factory floor, offices, and remote workers

How we help

Our COSAINT model gives manufacturers a structured path from reactive IT to security-first operations. Every tier includes our enterprise security baseline – MFA, endpoint management, 24/7 SOC monitoring, and automated reporting – with additional capabilities as complexity grows.

Manufacturing clients typically start with COSAINT Managed or COSAINT Complete depending on size and infrastructure complexity. If you have on-premises servers, network infrastructure, and production floor devices, Complete is usually the right fit. If you are cloud-first with a smaller footprint, Managed provides the same security depth without the infrastructure management layer.

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Regulatory landscape

Manufacturers operate under multiple overlapping frameworks. We help you build the controls and evidence that satisfy all of them simultaneously.

NIS2 Directive

ISO 27001

GDPR

Industry-specific quality certifications (ISO 9001, ISO 13485)

Manufacturing IT FAQ

How do you handle production floor devices that cannot run standard endpoint protection?

We assess each device individually. For Windows-based production systems, we deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with custom exclusion policies that protect the system without interfering with production software. For legacy or embedded systems that cannot run modern endpoint protection, we implement compensating controls: network segmentation, application whitelisting, and enhanced monitoring of network traffic to and from those devices.

Will your security policies disrupt our production workflows?

No. We design security policies with manufacturing operations in mind. This means custom conditional access policies that accommodate shared workstations, Intune device profiles tuned for production floor use cases, and change management processes that align with your production schedules. We test every policy change in a controlled manner before deployment.

How quickly can you respond to a security incident on the production floor?

Our MDR partner Blackpoint Cyber provides 24/7 monitoring and response. Critical alerts trigger immediate response, and containment actions can be taken within minutes. For production environments, we pre-define response playbooks that balance security containment with production continuity, so an isolated incident does not unnecessarily halt an entire production line.

What COSAINT tier is right for our manufacturing business?

Most manufacturing clients start with COSAINT Complete. This tier includes everything in Managed (full helpdesk, security baseline, device management, Microsoft 365 administration) plus on-premises server management, network infrastructure support, and the infrastructure monitoring that production environments require. If you have minimal on-premises infrastructure and are primarily cloud-based, COSAINT Managed may be sufficient.

Can you help us prepare for NIS2 compliance?

Yes. Our security baseline maps directly to the technical measures required by NIS2. We provide documented risk assessments, incident response plans, business continuity procedures, and the security controls evidence that regulators expect. For clients pursuing formal NIS2 readiness, our COSAINT Strategic tier adds vCISO advisory and Microsoft Sentinel SIEM for the advanced monitoring and reporting that the directive anticipates.

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