The volume of cyberattacks targeting manufacturers has been steadily increasing for quite some time. However, over the past few years, what had long been a gradual climb has become a meteoric rise — with the number of cyberattacks levied against manufacturers soaring upward at a dizzying pace.
In fact, the trend has proven so significant that, in 2021, manufacturing surpassed financial services to become the most heavily-attacked major industry in the world. Three years later and the industry has held onto that unwelcome distinction without interruption, as its share of the global cybercrime pie rose to over 25% of all incidents in 2023. Going forward it is highly unlikely that we will see this figure fall by any meaningful amount.