When it comes to industries that have a cyberattack target on their back, United States manufacturing is number one with a bullet, and it isn’t even close. Be it nation states or just bad actors, the threat to U.S. infrastructure will continue to grow in sophistication and volume in the months and years ahead.

According to the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024, more than 80% of ransomware attacks are impacted by the human in the loop. Something as simple as using a thumb drive to save files can have catastrophic consequences for the enterprise if an infected device is plugged into other computers on the network.