Cyber threat landscape for the manufacturing industry in 2025

UK organisations and businesses continue to be a prime target for cybercriminals. Join us as we explore the threat landscape across the UK for data loss, delving in to manufacturing specifically, combining internal and external risks and threats.

Sector-specific vulnerabilities

The document breaks down these operational exposure points by exploring:

  • The unique prevalence of unauthorised access inside manufacturing plants, making up 32% of its internal data incidents due to weak access privileges
  • The critical disruption caused by legacy hardware dependencies and productivity prioritisation, which frequently delay essential software security patching
  • The rising success rate of highly targeted social engineering schemes, including spear-phishing and executive whaling, which actively exploit siloed corporate structures

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Cyber threat landscape for the manufacturing industry in 2025

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