Manufacturing · Self-assessment · Free
Manufacturing Security Assessment.
Twenty questions across the five risk domains that actually matter for manufacturers — OT/IT segmentation, ICS/SCADA hardening, IP protection, supply chain, and incident response. About ten minutes. No email required to see your score.
- Mapped to NIST CSF, NIST 800-82r3, IEC 62443
- Maturity scored Initial → Optimized per domain
- Scoring runs locally in your browser
- Optional written report + roadmap on request
OT/IT Security ICS / SCADA IP Protection Supply Chain Incident Response
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What it covers
Five domains. Twenty honest questions.
Built around the threat picture we actually see in manufacturing engagements: ransomware crossing from corporate IT to the shop floor, customer questionnaires with teeth, and the hard reality that some HMIs simply cannot be patched on a normal cadence. The assessment gives you a maturity score per domain so the conversation with leadership can be about the gap — not the score.
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OT/IT Security
Segmentation between corporate IT and the shop floor — the most-abused ransomware path into manufacturing.
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ICS / SCADA
Hardening of PLCs, HMIs, historians, and the maintenance workflow that keeps them patched.
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IP Protection
Protecting CAD files, formulations, process know-how, and customer / contract data from theft and exfiltration.
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Supply Chain
Supplier and customer security requirements, third-party access, and the questionnaires that show up before purchase orders.
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Incident Response
What happens between the alarm and the first shift back online — the discipline that turns a ransomware event into hours instead of weeks.
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What does the assessment cover?
Twenty questions across five domains: OT/IT segmentation, ICS/SCADA hardening, IP protection, supply-chain security, and incident response. Each answer maps to a maturity level (Initial, Developing, Managed, Optimized) cross-walked to NIST CSF, NIST 800-82r3, IEC 62443, and where relevant CMMC 2.0 / NIST 800-171.
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How long does it take?
About ten minutes. You can stop at any point — your answers are scored locally in the browser and never leave your device until you choose to request a written report.
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Do I need to give an email address?
No. The assessment runs entirely client-side. If you want a written report and a 30/60/90-day plan from our team, you can request one at the end — but the score itself is yours immediately.
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Is this a substitute for a real audit?
No. It is a fast, honest self-check — meant to surface the obvious gaps a manufacturer should fix before a customer questionnaire, a cyber-insurance renewal, or — worst case — a ransomware event. A formal audit, pen test, or CMMC assessment is a separate engagement. See penetration testing and CMMC compliance.
About this manufacturing cybersecurity assessment
What this assessment measures — and why OT downtime is the metric that matters.
This manufacturing cybersecurity readiness assessment is built around the controls that matter most when an attacker compromises a manufacturer: the OT/IT segmentation boundary (IEC 62443 zone-and-conduit model), industrial control system (ICS/SCADA) authentication and patching, intellectual property protection, supply-chain risk, and the incident-response coordination needed when production loss is measured in dollars per minute. The questions cover the same domains NIST CSF 2.0 (Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) emphasizes for critical-infrastructure organizations, plus CMMC 2.0 controls for defense manufacturers operating under DFARS 252.204-7012, plus the CIRCIA 72-hour reporting expectations that apply to critical-infrastructure sectors.
Scoring runs locally in your browser — nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly request a written report. The output emphasizes the OT/IT convergence risks that bridge IT-grade attacks (ransomware, business email compromise, identity attacks) into OT-grade impact (production stoppage, safety system failures, IP theft) — the place where 2024-2026 manufacturing incidents have concentrated most heavily.
How manufacturing security teams typically use these results
Three patterns: (1) OT/IT convergence baseline — as manufacturers connect ICS to enterprise IT for predictive maintenance and quality analytics, the assessment surfaces where that convergence has outpaced the security architecture; (2) customer audit response — OEM customers (especially in automotive, aerospace, defense) increasingly require supply-chain cybersecurity attestations; (3) cyber-insurance renewal — manufacturing carriers have tightened OT-specific underwriting after the high-profile ransomware-driven production stoppages of 2023-2025.
What to do next
Cyberuptive serves discrete and process manufacturers, including DoW supply-chain manufacturers facing CMMC 2.0 Level 2 requirements, with managed cybersecurity programs that span both IT and OT environments. Our Managed Detection and Response covers IT-side identity and endpoint threats with active containment authority, our managed firewall service enforces the OT/IT segmentation boundary, our penetration testing services include OT-aware scoping when production environments are in scope, and our CMMC 2.0 compliance services deliver the full controls baseline DoD prime contractors require from subs.
Related reading: MDR vs MSSP vs SIEM: a 2026 buyer's guide · CMMC 2.0 timeline for Pacific contractors.
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