Cybersecurity for manufacturing
Agentless OT/SCADA deception, anti-ransomware defence and 24/7 SOC — the Passeca bundle for manufacturers whose OT systems cannot safely run agents and who cannot afford a minute of unplanned downtime.
Passeca's manufacturing bundle is built around Passeca Deception — agentless, air-gap-capable decoys that mimic OT and SCADA assets to detect intrusion with near-zero false positives. Because many legacy or safety-critical OT systems cannot safely support conventional EDR agents, Passeca pairs deception with Halcyon anti-ransomware and a 24/7 SOC to defend both the plant floor and the corporate IT that connects to it.
What defines manufacturing cybersecurity?
Manufacturing is the most-targeted sector for ransomware, governed by NIS2 resilience duties, and defined by OT systems that cannot take agents. The bundle is built around that reality.
NIS2 & OT security
NIS2 covers specified manufacturing subsectors, with entities generally classified as important or essential depending on the applicable criteria, imposing risk-management measures, governance accountability and incident-reporting timelines on those in scope. Alongside it sits the practical imperative of OT security — protecting the industrial control systems that run production and critical infrastructure.
Ransomware that halts production
Manufacturing is the most-hit sector for ransomware because downtime is measured in lost output, not just data. An encryption event on OT systems can stop a line for days, and the exfiltration extortion that accompanies it threatens proprietary processes.
OT/SCADA exposure
Operational-technology networks were designed for reliability, not security. Legacy PLCs, unpatched HMIs and flat networks mean an attacker who reaches the OT layer can often move freely — and many of these systems cannot safely support conventional EDR agents.
IT/OT boundary crossings
The erosion of the air gap between corporate IT and plant-floor OT creates paths from a phishing victim to a production line. Most damaging OT incidents begin as ordinary IT compromises that traverse into the OT network.
Agentless OT deception — the control manufacturers can actually deploy
Standard security tools assume you can install an agent. Many legacy or safety-critical OT systems cannot. Passeca Deception is the rare control built for that constraint.
OT and SCADA systems run deterministic, real-time processes on legacy operating systems. Installing agent-based EDR can destabilise a controller, void a vendor warranty, or is simply impossible on the device. That leaves the most safety-critical part of a manufacturing network with no detection — the exact place an attacker aims to reach.
Passeca Deception solves this by deploying decoys and breadcrumbs that look like engineering workstations, PLCs and industrial protocols. They are not real systems, so interactions with them are strong indicators of suspicious activity — delivering intrusion detection with near-zero false positives. It is agentless, deploys in roughly two hours, is air-gap capable, and runs purpose-built OT decoys — not IT decoys repurposed for a plant floor.
The Passeca bundle for manufacturing
OT deception, anti-ransomware defence and a 24/7 SOC — assembled to protect production uptime and meet NIS2 obligations.
Passeca Deception (OT/SCADA decoys)
Agentless, air-gap-capable decoys and breadcrumbs that mimic OT and SCADA assets. Near-zero-false-positive intrusion detection for the plant floor — the control that makes manufacturing defence possible.
Passeca DeceptionRansomware protection (Halcyon)
Dedicated anti-ransomware defence for the IT estate that connects to OT — pre-execution prevention and recovery capabilities, including encryption-key capture and decryption where technically supported, and EDR tamper protection.
Ransomware ProtectionSOC-as-a-Service (24/7)
24/7 monitoring, detection and response on Passeca's SIEM (PassIRP) and AI automation layer (PassAI-Guard) — correlating IT and OT deception alerts so a boundary crossing is seen before it reaches production.
SOC-as-a-ServiceNIS2 compliance
NIS2 scope assessment, risk-management measures, governance accountability, and incident-reporting processes — with evidence mapped once to also serve ISO 27001 for manufacturers pursuing certification.
NIS2 ComplianceDetecting an intruder inside an OT network
An anonymised engagement showing how agentless OT deception works in practice.
A manufacturer with a flat, largely air-gapped OT network had no visibility into lateral movement on the plant floor and could not deploy agents on its legacy controllers. Passeca deployed OT/SCADA decoys across the OT zone and connected the alerts to the 24/7 SOC.
During a red-team exercise, the decoys alerted on reconnaissance of fake engineering assets before the simulated attacker reached any real production system — demonstrating detection without touching the controllers.
Manufacturing & OT cybersecurity, answered
The questions plant, security and compliance leaders ask before defending OT environments they cannot instrument with agents.
Why can't standard agent-based EDR run on many OT systems?
How does Passeca Deception protect OT/SCADA environments?
Can Passeca Deception work in an air-gapped OT network?
What makes agentless OT deception unique in the market?
How does Halcyon fit into the manufacturing bundle?
What does NIS2 require of manufacturers?
Can Passeca run a 24/7 SOC for a manufacturing operation?
How does Passeca handle the IT/OT boundary?
Can't put agents on your OT systems?
You are not alone — that is exactly the constraint Passeca Deception was built for. Tell us about your plant network and your NIS2 obligations, and we will show you how agentless OT deception delivers detection without touching a controller.
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