Downtime is the ransom.
Visibility is the defense.
Manufacturers are the most-attacked sector for a simple reason: every idle hour on the line has a price tag, and much of the plant floor was never designed to be monitored. Vijilan unifies IT and OT security — 24/7 SOC, agentless xIoT visibility and CMMC-aligned evidence for defense suppliers — delivered through your MSP.
Managed security for manufacturing means one 24/7 SOC across both sides of the house: corporate IT (endpoints, identities, cloud) and the plant floor (PLCs, HMIs, historians and industrial IoT, monitored agentlessly). Threats are contained before they cross the IT/OT boundary, and defense-supply-chain manufacturers get evidence mapped to CMMC and NIST 800-171.
What manufacturing is actually up against.
Ransomware priced against line-downtime
Attackers know an idle production line costs more per hour than almost any ransom — which is why manufacturing tops the incident charts year after year.
Unmonitorable plant-floor systems
PLCs, HMIs and historians can't take agents and often can't be patched without a maintenance window. Most plants can't even inventory what's connected.
IT/OT convergence without segmentation
ERP-to-floor integrations and remote-vendor access create paths from a phished laptop to production equipment.
Supply-chain obligations flowing down
Primes push CMMC and NIST 800-171 requirements down to their suppliers — losing a contract over missing security evidence is now a real commercial risk.
Built for manufacturing, delivered through your MSP.
Agentless OT/xIoT monitoring
Managed xIoT discovers and monitors PLCs, HMIs, historians and industrial IoT with no agents, no reboots and zero production disruption — full visibility in minutes, not quarters.
One SOC across IT and OT
Corporate endpoints, identities, cloud and plant-floor telemetry land in the same 24/7 investigation queue, so a threat is followed across the boundary instead of lost at it.
Active containment, runbook-governed
On the IT side the SOC isolates and disables directly; on the OT side actions follow the engineering-approved runbook — containment without tripping production.
CMMC / 800-171 evidence
Monitoring, audit logging and incident-response documentation mapped to the practices defense suppliers must demonstrate.
Through the MSPs manufacturers trust
White-label delivery through your existing IT provider — one throat to choke, our SOC behind it.
Frameworks, mapped and evidenced.
No vendor makes you compliant — we run the technical controls your frameworks expect and hand you the evidence. Here's the mapping.
| Framework | How Vijilan helps |
|---|---|
| CMMC / NIST 800-171 | Continuous monitoring, audit and accountability logging, and incident-response evidence mapped to the assessed practices for defense suppliers. |
| IEC 62443 / NIST 800-82 | OT monitoring and response aligned to the zone-and-conduit model and ICS security guidance — visibility first, disruption never. |
| Cyber insurance | EDR coverage, MFA evidence, OT visibility and 24/7 response documentation satisfy the questions underwriters actually ask manufacturers. |
Common questions.
Can you monitor our plant floor without touching production?+
Yes — that's the design constraint Managed xIoT was built around: agentless discovery and monitoring of OT and industrial IoT with no reboots, no agents on controllers and zero network disruption.
Will the SOC take actions that could stop the line?+
No. OT response follows an engineering-approved runbook agreed at onboarding. On the IT side the SOC contains directly; on the OT side it acts within the boundaries your plant engineers set.
We're a defense supplier facing CMMC. How does this help?+
The monitoring, logging and incident-response practices CMMC assesses are exactly what the service produces — with evidence organized against 800-171 controls so your assessor isn't reverse-engineering screenshots.
We already have an MSP running our IT. How does Vijilan fit?+
Behind them. Vijilan is channel-exclusive: your MSP delivers the SOC service under its own brand, and the plant gets 24/7 coverage without adding another vendor relationship.
"Vijilan's team functions as a seamless extension of our own. Their ability to manage our data with Cribl and provide active remediation has freed up my internal resources to focus on bigger picture risks. It's a true force multiplier."
The checklists and vendor question lists partners use in this vertical, free to download.
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