About 64 percent of companies in the manufacturing sector suffered a cyberattack during the preceding 12 months, according to Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor, which surveyed 1,610 IT and security professionals across more than 100 countries.
The finding is similar to the finding among organizations overall (68 percent), but the manufacturing sector experiences more cloud-infrastructure attacks than any other industry surveyed. Among manufacturing companies that detected an attack, 85 percent spotted phishing in the cloud compared to only 58 percent across all verticals; 43 percent faced user-account compromise in the cloud as opposed to 27 percent among all industries; and 25 percent dealt with data theft by hackers in the cloud compared to 15 percent for organizations overall.
“The manufacturing sector relies heavily on the cloud to work with their supply chain in real time,” said Dirk Schrader, vice president of security research at Netwrix. “This makes their c
