OT Resilience: How to Prevent Cyberattacks in Manufacturing

In August 2025, JLR suffered a cyber attack that brought both direct financial repercussions and wider estimated losses of US$2.5bn to the UK economy, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026.

Manufacturers are high value targets to cyber criminals, with high costs of downtime and the wider supply chain impact. 

The report found that just 20% of organisations maintain a dedicated OT security team and around a third actively monitor OT systems with specific security tooling. 

Taking place on 18 August at 3pm BST, an Acronis webinar, The OT resilience blueprint: Protecting industrial operations from cyberattacks and downtime, will host experts on OT cybersecurity.

AI for cybersecurity

Nearly all respondents to the World Economic Forum's survey expect AI to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in the year ahead.

The percentage of respondents assessing the security of AI tools has nearly doubled from the previous year, from 37% in 2025 to 64% in 2026.

While AI poses new risks, manufacturing and supply chain leaders are also leveraging it to bolster defences.

The manufacturing, supply chain and transportation sector reported a higher utilisation of automated security operations (59%) compared to other defence methods.

Implementing automated operations allows lean security teams to hand off high-volume, repetitive tasks, freeing up human specialists to focus on strategic operational oversight and incident response.

What you'll learn

The webinar will explore six areas of industrial security management, including the role of availability and uptime as primary targets.

Participants will learn methods to reduce downtime through operational technology recovery metrics. These include recovery time objective, recovery point objective and mean time to contain and recover.

Attendees will also see protection strategies for supervisory control and data acquisition systems, programmable logic controllers, engineering workstations and other industrial control system components. 

The expert speakers will examine approaches to secure legacy and air-gapped environments without creating costly downtime. Compliance requirements will also be addressed, including IEC 62443, NERC CIP and FDA 21 CFR Part 11, with guidance on meeting standards without slowing production.

Register for The OT resilience blueprint: Protecting industrial operations from cyberattacks and downtime and leave with a practical framework you can apply immediately.

Who will speak

Three specialist organisations with industrial security experience, Acronis, GuidePoint Security and Copia Automation, will contribute to the discussion.

Each speaker has experience securing operational industrial environments against contemporary threats.

Ryan Davis, Senior Director of Enterprise Sales at Acronis, will be joined by Subramani Rao, Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Solutions Strategy at Acronis.

Mary Gannon, Operational Technology Incident Response Lead at GuidePoint Security, will contribute expertise in incident management.

Adam Gluck, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Copia Automation, will present alongside J.D. Perham, Solutions Architect at Acronis.

Register for the Acronis webinar now to learn how to take action for OT security.