Manufacturing doesn’t have cybersecurity figured out.
It just lives where failure can’t hide.

In this episode of CyberCast, Joel explores why manufacturing acts as an early warning system for every other industry. Not because it’s more mature, but because the consequences of cyber risk show up immediately.

When a factory goes down, there’s no workaround. Lines stop. People idle. Revenue waits. And the incidents that cause the most damage rarely start with sophisticated attacks—they begin with blind see spots, familiar assumptions, and decisions that felt reasonable at the time.

This conversation looks beyond frameworks and tools to unpack what manufacturing teaches us about:

• Downtime as a business metric—not an IT one

• Why “good people” don’t reduce cyber risk

• Identity failures as the new cause of outages

• Security decisions that break when they ignore real workflows

• What manufacturing’s pragmatic use of AI gets right—and wrong

• Why cybersecurity is always a leadership responsibility

You don’t need to run a factory to feel the impact of this episode.
If your business depends on uptime, trust, or continuity, the lessons apply directly.

Because the real question isn’t if something breaks.
It’s what happens when the line stops—and whether you were ready.