For years, the manufacturing sector operated under the "security through obscurity" model relying on air-gapped systems and proprietary protocols to stay off the radar of mainstream cybercriminals. According to the Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report, those days are officially over. Manufacturing has emerged as one of the most targeted industries, not necessarily because its data is the most valuable, but because its tolerance for downtime is the lowest. In an industry where "minutes equal million
