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Security that never stops the line

In manufacturing, the cost of a security control that causes downtime is measured against the cost of the incident it prevented, and downtime usually wins the argument. HexaShield is built to be deployable on live production networks: passive discovery, industrial-aware detection, and validation that is approval-gated by default.

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to lost output
A stopped line converts directly into cost, and a spoiled batch cannot be restored from backup.
Where we are brought in

Three problems we are asked to solve on the plant floor

Keep the line running and keep the intellectual property. Everything else is downstream of those two. These are the three situations operations and security leaders bring to us most often across discrete and process manufacturing.

01

A line stops and nobody can say whether it is a fault or an intrusion

OT
The problem

Controllers and HMIs run software that predates the security team, often supported by an OEM contract that forbids modification. When output stops, the first hours go on establishing whether this is mechanical, a control fault or something else, and every one of those hours is production.

How HexaShield solves it

Operational Technology on HexaOT, passive by design across control and field systems, feeding the HexaShield SOC so that Managed SOC / MDR analysts hold plant context before an event rather than acquiring it during one. AI triage cuts the noise; people own containment.

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The business outcome

The fault-or-intrusion question is answered in the first conversation rather than the first afternoon. Engineering keeps its focus on restoring output, and the security answer arrives alongside the operational one instead of behind it.

02

Your process knowledge is your margin, and it is portable

CUSTODY
The problem

Recipes, tolerances, tooling designs and process parameters are the difference between you and a competitor with the same machines. They also sit in engineering file shares, on supplier portals and in the hands of contract manufacturers across several jurisdictions.

How HexaShield solves it

Content Custody on HexaCustody applied to engineering and process IP: assets tagged in metadata, transfers logged and gated by the Custody Agent, with a 24/7 SOC watching for anomalies and egress, plus dark-web monitoring through HexaInt.

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The business outcome

You can see where your process IP actually goes across the supplier base, and if it turns up somewhere it should not, it traces back towards a source rather than becoming an unresolved suspicion in a commercial relationship.

03

Every large customer now audits your security before they buy

GRC
The problem

Automotive, aerospace, defence and pharma customers all arrive with their own security schedule, their own questionnaire and their own deadline. Answering them is a bid activity, staffed by people who were hired to run operations.

How HexaShield solves it

Governance, Risk and Compliance on HexaComply, delivered as a managed service from gap assessment through to certification, with the evidence assembling itself as the business operates and third-party risk management built in.

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The business outcome

Customer security schedules become a repeatable answer drawn from one evidence base rather than a bespoke project per bid. Security assurance stops delaying commercial cycles and starts shortening them.

What sits behind it

The problems, and what answers each

Each situation, the capability that answers it and the platform it is delivered on
#The situationCapabilityDelivered on
01A line stops and nobody can say whether it is a fault or an intrusionManaged SOC / MDR, Operational TechnologyHexaOT, HexaSOC
02Your process knowledge is your margin, and it is portableContent CustodyHexaCustody, HexaInt
03Every large customer now audits your security before they buyGovernance, Risk & ComplianceHexaComply

What your customers and regulators are asking you to evidence

CMMC for the US defence supply chain · NIS2 where a manufacturer is in scope as an important entity · customer-imposed security schedules in automotive, aerospace and pharma supply agreements · ISO 27001 as commercial currency. CMMC in particular is a fast-moving programme.

We map the ones that apply to your jurisdiction, flag, licence or trade during onboarding rather than assuming them here. Compliance frameworks and regulatory requirements change over time; the specific frameworks in scope, and their current requirements, are confirmed and verified with your counsel during onboarding.

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Threat landscape

What actually goes wrong in Manufacturing

Ransomware with production impact

Manufacturing is among the most targeted sectors precisely because downtime creates urgency to pay.

Flat plant networks

Cells, lines and business systems frequently share a broadcast domain, so containment options are limited once an intruder is inside.

Legacy controllers

PLCs and HMIs running decade-old firmware cannot take an agent and cannot be patched without requalification.

Engineering workstations and removable media

The laptop that programmes the line moves between vendors, sites and networks.

Supply-chain and customer requirements

Primes increasingly pass their obligations down; failing an assessment costs contracts.

IP theft

Process recipes, tooling designs and quality data are competitive assets and are exfiltrated as such.

One connected picture

Plant floor and business systems, in one place

The line, the engineering workstations and the ERP that schedules them are usually monitored by nobody in common. That gap is how a phishing email becomes a stopped line. HexaCore closes it without putting a single packet onto the plant network.

Plant floor PLCs, HMIs, robots, historians
Engineering workstations Programming tools, project files
MES & ERP Production planning, orders, quality
Site IT & identity Mail, SSO, endpoints
Remote & vendor access OEM support, integrator sessions
Suppliers & customers Contract flow-downs, EDI, portals
HexaCore Resilience core Correlate · enrich · decide
A full inventory, no downtime Passive discovery, nothing probed
IEC 62443 and CMMC evidence One control set, several customers
24/7 agentic response Containment proposed, approval gated

Nothing here scans, and nothing acts on the plant network without an approval you configure. A control that risks the line loses that argument every time, so we do not ask you to have it.

Obligations

The regulatory picture

The frameworks and regimes that shape security programmes in this sector. HexaComply maps one control set across all of them.

IEC 62443

The reference framework for industrial automation and control system security, including zones and conduits.

NIST CSF 2.0

Widely adopted as the governing framework for manufacturing security programmes.

CMMC 2.0

Required across the US defence industrial base, built on NIST SP 800-171.

NIST SP 800-171

Protection of controlled unclassified information in non-federal systems.

NIS2

Manufacturing of critical products is in scope as an important sector in the EU.

TISAX

Information-security assessment expected across the automotive supply chain.

The approach

How HexaShield covers it

  1. 1Discover the plant without touching it

    HexaOT builds a live inventory of controllers, HMIs, drives and engineering stations from observed traffic alone.

  2. 2Detection tuned to process behaviour

    Industrial protocol awareness means an unexpected command sequence is recognised as significant rather than dismissed as noise.

  3. 3Prioritise by exploitability, not CVSS

    HexaInt maps live CVE intelligence to your actual devices; HexaStrike proves which exposures are genuinely reachable before you spend a maintenance window.

  4. 4One SOC for the office and the floor

    HexaSOC triages IT and OT together, which is how IT-to-OT movement is caught early rather than reconstructed later.

  5. 5Evidence for customers and primes

    HexaComply maps one control set to IEC 62443, NIST CSF, CMMC 2.0, NIST SP 800-171 and TISAX.

The platform

Modules that do the work

HexaOT

OT & ICS security

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AI agentic SOC & MDR

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HexaInt

Cyber & dark-web intelligence

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HexaComply

Compliance & TPRM

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HexaStrike

Agentic offensive security

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One accountable partner

Integrated capabilities and proprietary platforms under one operating model, so there is no gap between the team that detects something and the team that answers for it.

No rip-and-replace

We sit above the stack you already run and take telemetry from any source. Nothing here depends on you replacing tooling you have already bought and trained people on.

Transparency by default

Whatever you buy feeds HexaView, the same truth our analysts see, at the depth each audience needs, exported on demand for leadership, auditors and insurers.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Will deploying this risk production downtime?
It is designed not to. Asset discovery is passive, HexaOT observes network traffic rather than scanning or probing controllers, so it can be introduced on a live production network without the change-control conversation that active tooling requires. Anything intrusive is handled separately and requires explicit approval.
How do you handle PLCs that cannot be patched?
By managing the risk rather than pretending it can be removed. HexaInt establishes which vulnerabilities are actually relevant to your devices, HexaStrike validates which are genuinely reachable given your segmentation, and HexaSOC puts detection around the ones you cannot fix. That is a defensible position; an unpatched-device report is not.
What is IEC 62443 and do we need it?
IEC 62443 is the international standard series for industrial automation and control system security, covering zones and conduits, security levels and requirements for asset owners, integrators and product suppliers. It is not usually a legal requirement in itself, but it is the reference model that customers, insurers and regulators increasingly measure manufacturers against.
We supply the US defence industrial base. Can you help with CMMC?
Yes. CMMC 2.0 is built on NIST SP 800-171, and HexaComply maps your implemented controls to both, keeping the evidence current rather than assembled per assessment. Where the scope includes plant systems, HexaOT provides the asset and monitoring evidence that is usually hardest to produce.
Other sectors

We work across resilience-critical industries

MaritimeVessel OT, port systems and shore-side IT, under IMO MSC.428(98), IACS UR E26/E27 and USCG expectations. Media & EntertainmentPre-release content protected across studios, post houses and vendors, aligned to TPN and MPA control expectations. Casino & GamingPlayer account defence, property OT and evidence for PCI DSS and gaming licence conditions. Financial ServicesDORA and NIS2 evidence, ICT third-party risk and resilience testing that runs continuously. Critical National InfrastructureConverged IT and OT visibility, sovereign deployment, and evidence mapped to the NCSC CAF and NIS2. HealthcareMedical device and clinical system visibility that never interrupts care, evidenced for HIPAA and the DSPT.

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Tell us what you are protecting and where you feel exposed. We will map it to the right capabilities and set up a walkthrough.

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