Manufacturing Cyber Risk & Resilience Advisors
When technical risk becomes business risk, leadership needs a clear call.
Partner-led, vendor-neutral cyber advisory for manufacturers where uptime, safety and operational continuity are mission-critical.
Confidential first conversation · NDA available up front
- Production uptime exposureHigh
- IT/OT segmentationPartial
- Incident decision rightsUndefined
- Board reporting cadenceQuarterly
Vendor-neutralRecommendations aren’t tied to any product
Partner-ledThe person you meet leads the work
OT-awareUptime and safety come first
Board-readyRisk in business terms, not scan exports
When clients call us
Leaders call us when cyber risk stops being an IT problem.
01
Production uptime or safety is exposed
A cyber weakness now threatens a line, a batch, or a safety system, and someone has to decide what to do about it.
02
The board wants a straight answer
Directors need business-level insight into cyber risk, not a vulnerability dump or a vendor pitch.
03
IT and OT converged without governance
Plant networks connected faster than ownership, policy and monitoring could keep up.
04
An incident happened, or readiness is overdue
Leadership needs decision frameworks and steady support before, during and after a cyber event.
05
Growth or M&A widened the exposure
New plants, new systems and new owners, with no consolidated view of the risk you just acquired.
What we do
Three ways to engage.
We help manufacturing leaders reduce cyber risk without disrupting operations. Every engagement centers on IT/OT convergence, cyber risk governance and executive decision support.
Flagship · Retainer
Executive Cyber Risk Advisory
Ongoing, partner-level counsel for leadership and the board: risk reporting, OT-aware prioritization, incident readiness and a strategic security roadmap.
Fixed scope
Manufacturing Cyber Risk Posture Assessment
An executive-level evaluation of IT/OT exposure, uptime and safety impact, and governance gaps, delivered as a clear, prioritized roadmap.
Readiness & live support
Incident Readiness & Response Advisory
Tabletop exercises, decision frameworks and leadership support during cyber events, so the people accountable can make the call.
How we measure
Three lenses. One decision.
Most assessments hand you one kind of answer. We measure exposure, control maturity and AI governance separately, then translate all three into the decision leadership actually has to make.
Scores are reported side by side and never blended into a single vanity number.
0–100
Cyber Risk Score per asset
Technical exposure
Every host is scored with a weighted model (Critical ×10, High ×5, Medium ×2, Low ×1) and tiered Low to Critical. Informational noise never moves the number.
0–4
maturity scale, 11 SOC 2 criteria
Control maturity
ID-coded interview questions scored on verifiable practice, not intent, with binary red-flag checks that surface deal-breakers fast.
12
AI-specific risk domains
AI governance
From data handling to human oversight of outputs: the AI risks that traditional control frameworks were never designed to cover.
Who we serve
Built for operations that can’t simply be rebooted.
Discrete & process manufacturing
Line uptime, quality and worker safety across plants that were never designed to be connected.
Food & beverage production
Batch integrity, food safety and recall exposure, with seasonal capacity that can’t absorb downtime.
Safety-critical operations
Environments where a cyber event can become a safety event, and decision rights must be clear in advance.
Private equity portfolios
Cyber due diligence, 100-day plans and comparable risk scoring across manufacturing portfolio companies.
Professional services
The same discipline for firms whose “production line” is client confidentiality: legal, financial and advisory.
Case study · Professional services
A regional law firm needed to know where its risk actually lived.
We scored 800+ hosts, interviewed leadership against SOC 2 and AI-risk frameworks, and reported all three lenses side by side. The answer was precise, and so was the plan.
800+
hosts scored on a 0–100 risk scale
~94%
carried zero actionable findings
1
asset held every critical-severity finding
2
AI risk domains with no documented controls
Our difference
Experience you can’t buy from a tool vendor.
Piper Secure advisors bring decades of real-world manufacturing cybersecurity leadership. We’ve sat in the plant manager’s office and the boardroom, often in the same week.
- Hundreds of manufacturing facilities secured globally
- Enterprise IT/OT convergence programs led end to end
- Cyber risk presented to boards in business terms
- Incidents managed where downtime carried multi-million-dollar consequences
Vendor-neutral by design: our recommendations aren’t shaped by product quotas or integrator relationships.
Insights
Briefings for leaders, not just practitioners.
New briefings are on the way. In the meantime, talk to a partner.
Talk to a partner, not a sales team.
A 30-minute confidential conversation to understand what’s at stake and whether we’re the right fit. NDA available before any technical discussion.