Industrial sectors like energy, utilities, and manufacturing are facing the highest number of cyber incidents globally, accounting for 25.7% of attacks in 2024, according to Kaspersky.

Despite the growing risk, only 19% of cybersecurity leaders feel confident in their resilience strategies, and a mere 45% of manufacturers consider themselves adequately prepared.

Cyberattacks in these sectors can trigger power outages, environmental disasters, and massive financial losses, making business continuity and data protection critical priorities.

Industrial control systems remain prime targets, especially as digitalization increases the attack surface and raises the stakes of system compromise.

Kaspersky recommends eight steps to build cyber resilience, including asset inventory, risk assessments, essential security, anomaly detection, audits, network segmentation, SOC development, and infrastructure stress testing.

These strategies aim to transform basic cyber defenses into advanced, ongoing security frameworks to keep operations running and reputations intact.

Kaspersky’s Industrial CyberSecurity platform offers dedicated OT-grade tools and XDR capabilities to help enterprises implement these steps and respond to threats effectively.

Organizations must embrace cybersecurity as a core business function—not a luxury—if they want to survive the next wave of industrial cyberattacks.