Production downtime costs $22,000 per minute.
Your OT security better not cause it.
PacketViper secures manufacturing OT environments – PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, production networks – without active scanning, agents, or anything that could interrupt a production line.
The most dangerous security tool in a manufacturing environment is one that can break what it’s protecting.
$670 million. One ransomware attack. Multiple continents.
A major automotive manufacturer experienced a ransomware attack that forced production shutdown at multiple plants across North America, Europe, and Asia – simultaneously. The infection entered through an IT network, traveled across the IT/OT boundary through an insufficiently segmented network, and reached production systems. The shutdown cost an estimated $670 million in lost production.
Manufacturing OT networks are increasingly connected – to enterprise IT systems for production data, to supply chain partners for just-in-time coordination, to cloud platforms for analytics and remote monitoring. Every connection is an attack surface. And every attack surface that reaches a production network represents a potential production shutdown.
Manufacturing security has a unique constraint that most security tools ignore: you can’t stop a production line to deploy an agent update. You can’t schedule a maintenance window on a 24/7 continuous process. You can’t actively scan network segments where a scan packet might trigger unexpected behavior in a PLC mid-cycle.
Transparent. Passive. Effective. Production never stops.
PacketViper deploys as a transparent bridge on manufacturing OT networks – at the IT/OT boundary, at production segment boundaries, at supplier connectivity points. No agents. No active scanning. No configuration changes to production systems.
Passive discovery builds a complete inventory of every device on the production network from observed traffic – every PLC, HMI, sensor, historian, and legacy controller – without sending a single probe packet. The inventory builds continuously; new devices appear automatically when they communicate.
AMTD deploys deceptive manufacturing infrastructure – fake PLC endpoints, simulated historian interfaces, decoy HMI services – that look legitimate to an attacker moving laterally from a breached IT system. The attacker spends reconnaissance time on decoys while PacketViper captures their fingerprint and enforces containment.
IT/OT boundary enforcement monitors all traffic crossing from enterprise systems to production systems. Traffic that doesn’t match the established baseline – an enterprise workstation suddenly trying to communicate with a PLC, a supplier connection attempting lateral access beyond its expected scope – triggers inline enforcement.
OT-native security for production environments
Passive OT Asset Discovery
Complete production network inventory without active scanning or agent deployment – built entirely from observed traffic.
IT/OT Boundary Enforcement
Inline inspection and enforcement at the production network perimeter – stops ransomware before it reaches production systems.
Manufacturing Protocol Awareness
Modbus, S7COMM (Siemens), and DNP3 natively supported – understands your production protocol stack at the packet level.
AMTD for Manufacturing OT
Deceptive PLC and HMI infrastructure defeats post-breach lateral movement – attackers waste time on decoys, not production systems.
Production Segment Isolation
Lateral movement between production cells detected and contained inline – the watertight bulkhead principle applied to OT networks.
Manufacturing Playbooks
Automated response procedures designed for production network scenarios – unknown devices, protocol anomalies, lateral movement events.
Zero disruptions. Full coverage.
Production disruptions in manufacturing deployments – passive operation cannot cause the outage it’s preventing.
S7COMM (Siemens), Modbus, and DNP3 natively supported – common manufacturing OT protocol stack fully covered.
Attack pattern directly addressed – production cell isolation, protocol anomaly detection, and AMTD apply to the documented technique.
Every stakeholder in manufacturing security
For Security Teams
IT/OT convergence has created attack paths that didn’t exist five years ago. Inline enforcement at the boundary is the only thing that stops ransomware from reaching production before it’s contained.
For OT Operators
Production continues. No maintenance window required. No agent deployments. No active scanning. The security layer is completely transparent to production systems.
For Leadership
A ransomware event that stops production costs far more than the ransom. The automotive industry has demonstrated this repeatedly. Preemptive IT/OT boundary enforcement is the cost-effective alternative.
See what your firewall never told you.
Show us your production network topology. We’ll identify the IT/OT boundary gaps and show you what the attack path looks like – before an attacker shows you first.
Ransomware typically enters through IT network connections and spreads laterally into OT environments through inadequately segmented IT/OT boundaries. Once inside, it targets engineering workstations, historian servers, and HMIs – disrupting production and, in some cases, directly manipulating industrial processes. Propagation happens in minutes; human response cannot keep pace.
PacketViper's Hive architecture provides millisecond-speed containment: when a device shows ransomware propagation behavior, PacketViper blocks it immediately and propagates that block to every unit across the plant – stopping lateral movement before it reaches production systems. No playbook, no human decision, no delay.
PacketViper enforces the Purdue Model boundaries in practice rather than just in theory – deploying inline at Level 3.5 (DMZ between enterprise IT and OT) and at Level 2 boundaries to prevent unauthorized communications between zones. Native S7COMM and Modbus support ensures PacketViper understands manufacturing protocol traffic and enforces accurately.