Contact Us
Associated Content
Manufacturing
Protect Plant Operations and Accelerate IT/OT Threat Response
Gain unalterable network truth across IT/OT environments to prevent costly factory downtime, secure smart manufacturing data pipelines, and satisfy tight regulatory audit requirements.
Loading…
Overview
Address convergence blind spots, unmanaged legacy devices, plant downtime, and compliance risks
Unplanned factory downtime causes severe operational and financial risks for manufacturers. Plant floor outages cost industrial enterprises thousands of dollars per minute in lost output, wasted raw materials, and missed customer SLAs. Complex multi-tier visibility rules and strict cybersecurity reporting mandates (such as EU NIS2, IEC 62443, and CMMC 2.0) require complete operational visibility for security, auditing, and fast recovery.
Visibility gaps between legacy OT and corporate IT infrastructure delay threat detection, which prolongs outages and strains incident response resources. Intelligent electronic devices and legacy plant-floor hardware lack support for endpoint security agents. Unmanaged plant hardware creates security gaps during operational disruptions, allowing lateral movement, ransomware propagation, and credential abuse to occur undetected before security teams isolate the fault.
Brief
Securing Smart Manufacturing and Protecting Production Uptime
Keep critical production processes free from threats and disruption with ExtraHop RevealX.
Challenges
Avoid the financial and operational impact of plant downtime
When a plant goes offline, financial damages accumulate exponentially through direct production loss, supply chain penalties, and recovery overhead. Managing operational technology (OT) cyber risk and adhering to mandatory incident reporting—driven by regulatory frameworks like NIS2—is critical to mitigating these catastrophic financial consequences.
Threat actors use AI to discover vulnerabilities quickly and iterate exploit scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series PLCs. Attackers execute unauthorized read and write operations on programmable logic controllers using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools, which disrupts critical manufacturing workflows and causes operational downtime.
Legacy plant-floor controllers (PLCs) operate without endpoint agents and crash or stall under active scans, which causes unexpected factory downtime.
Attackers take advantage of unmonitored lateral movement between enterprise IT and operational technology networks, causing financial losses on production lines.
Regulatory frameworks like NIS2 and IEC 62443 mandate tight 24- to 72-hour breach notification windows, creating compliance risks for organizations lacking visibility.
OPPORTUNITIES
Build operational resilience with unified visibility
ExtraHop RevealX builds operational resilience across industrial enterprises. RevealX provides unified visibility across IT and OT environments to maintain data integrity, secure environmental and IoT data pipelines for ESG mandates, and monitor multi-tier supply chains to manage geopolitical risks.
Unified visibility
ExtraHop delivers unified visibility across IT and OT environments to maintain data integrity, secure environmental and IoT data pipelines for ESG mandates, and monitor multi-tier supply chains to manage geopolitical risks.
Automated asset discovery and dependency mapping
Automatically discover, classify, and map dependencies for every asset on the network, using advanced analysis to identify anomalies and provide context-aware alerts based on observed behavior.
Accelerated performance troubleshooting
Utilize an intuitive investigation workflow that enables teams to drill down from high-level metrics to transaction records and packets in three or fewer clicks, significantly reducing the time required to resolve performance issues.
Solutions
Secure IT/OT convergence with unalterable network truth
ExtraHop RevealX provides network truth by decoding proprietary and standard protocols, including Modbus, BACnet, and OPC UA. RevealX deepens coverage for OT environments by detecting threats in real time through behavioral and rule-based detections during active operations. RevealX reveals attacks and vulnerabilities through continuous passive, agentless monitoring. RevealX generates unalterable forensic audit trails to fulfill compliance mandates—including NIS2, IEC 62443, and CMMC 2.0—while meeting 24- to 72-hour reporting windows during continuous industrial operations.
Modernizing Industry 4.0 operations while satisfying regulatory demands requires complete visibility across east-west and north-south traffic. Real-time visibility across assembly lines, distribution centers, and hybrid-cloud managed sites enables security teams to prevent outages and breaches. The network provides an immutable source of truth because threat actors can alter logs and endpoint data.
RevealX uses cloud-scale machine learning to identify attacks that evade signature-based tools. Cloud-scale AI analyzes behavioral baselines to detect living-off-the-land (LOTL) tactics and credential abuse targeting shop floor controllers.
Line-rate decryption of TLS 1.3 and PFS allows RevealX to expose lateral movement and unauthorized data staging inside encrypted industrial traffic. Line-rate decryption provides the independent observation required for an industrial Zero Trust Architecture.
How RevealX solves it
Network detection and response (NDR) passively taps network traffic via span ports or optical taps to map and baseline industrial protocols safely during ongoing production.
ExtraHop monitors perimeter boundaries to identify initial access attempts, C2 beaconing, and unauthorized data exfiltration in real time.
ExtraHop spots lateral movement and unauthorized remote access between factory floor zones, fulfilling ISA/IEC 62443 event-logging and monitoring rules.
RevealX supplies rapid telemetry to verify incidents instantly for regulators.
RevealX decodes over 90 protocols at 400 Gbps, providing persistent visibility across unmanaged PLCs, HMIs, and robotics where organizations cannot install endpoint agents.
How ExtraHop supports manufacturing industry compliance and regulatory requirements
Industrial Network Security
IEC 62443 Compliance
Supports the validation of the Purdue Model and detects lateral malware movement across zones. RevealX continuously monitors industrial network traffic to ensure conduit communication strictly matches security policies.
Critical Process Integrity
NIST CSF 2.0
Detect unauthorized command injections or parameter changes in Modbus, EtherNet/IP, and PROFINET protocols. RevealX flags protocol anomalies indicating potential production or safety system tampering.
Essential Service Resilience
EU NIS2 Directive
Identify living-off-the-land (LOTL) tactics, unauthorized firmware updates, and lateral pivots. RevealX provides unalterable forensic evidence and real-time visibility to satisfy strict 72-hour breach reporting windows.
Operational Resilience
UK CAF Alignment
Supports NIS event detection principles by automating asset discovery and providing persistent metadata history required to demonstrate "Achieved" status during regulatory audits.
Defense Supply Chain Integrity
CMMC 2.0 Safeguards
Automates Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) protection across hybrid IT/OT networks. RevealX spots unauthorized data staging, exfiltration, and credential abuse targeting engineering designs or CAD blueprints.
Data Integrity and Audit Readiness
ALCOA++
Passive, unalterable packet capture provides a reliable data integrity and defensible audit trail that threat actors cannot wipe or manipulate. RevealX consolidates NDR, NPM, and IDS backed by full packet capture into a single platform, reducing investigation times by over 60% during compliance audits.
PERFORMANCE
Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)
Quickly identify, investigate, and resolve disruptions to critical assets and IT infrastructure and catch credential abuse with unified IT/OT visibility.
NPM overviewPinpoint latency and throughput issues across SCADA networks, industrial control systems, and plant floor operations with high-fidelity telemetry.
Accelerate root-cause analysis with a 3-click workflow from high-level metrics down to packet inspection.
Unify operational visibility across OT engineering and SecOps teams during incident investigations.
Sustain factory uptime during incident response by bridging SOC and NOC/OT workflows.
Monitor plant-floor systems and unmanaged legacy PLCs without deploying software agents that risk operational downtime.
Validate cloud and infrastructure migrations by auto-mapping dependencies against established network baselines.
Ensure high performance across production lines and smart manufacturing supply chains.
Combine long-term metadata with scalable PCAP for an unalterable forensic record of industrial network transactions.
Automate compliance evidence generation for IEC 62443 audits and NIS2 risk management reports.
SECURITY
Network Detection and Response (NDR)
Use the power of network visibility, cloud-scale machine learning, and advanced analytics for real-time detection, rapid investigation, and quick, confident response to threats.
NDR overviewIdentify lateral movement, credential abuse, and early-stage ransomware targeting SCADA systems, OT networks, and plant floor workloads.
Detect signature-less threats by using cloud-scale machine learning and behavioral baselining across encrypted east-west traffic with line-rate TLS 1.3 decryption.
Automatically discover and classify unmanaged legacy PLCs and plant floor assets without installing agents.
Decode 90+ protocols across industrial (Modbus, BACnet, OPC UA) and IT environments at speeds up to 400 Gbps. ExtraHop monitors core infrastructure protocols, including DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and TCP/IP, to secure connected industrial devices and SCADA systems.
Map dependencies between IT and plant networks to eliminate single points of failure.
Automatically generate evidence for IEC 62443 and NIS2 audits with continuous, unalterable transaction logs and real-time monitoring of sensitive data flows.
Accelerate root-cause analysis with streamlined investigation workflows and deliver consolidated network intelligence to SOC and NOC teams.
Validate segmentation boundaries between plant networks and public subnets.
“ExtraHop RevealX reduces the risk of breaches and improves the efficiency for our workforce. It leads to cost savings from retiring other technology solutions, and employee satisfaction has also improved. On a scale of one to 10, I’d say ExtraHop is a 10.”
Head of portfolio management
manufacturing company
Source: Forrester® Consulting, “The Total Economic Impact™ of ExtraHop RevealX” February 2026
