Manufacturers and OEMs face an increasingly complex operational landscape. Regulatory authorities are tightening compliance standards, legacy OT systems are often unprepared for modern recovery demands and cyberattacks on production systems are growing more sophisticated and frequent.
The recent Jaguar Land Rover attack confirms that AI-powered threats targeting OT infrastructure are no longer theoretical. They're successfully disrupting real production environments and causing financial chaos.
Cyberthreats and compliance challenges are inevitable — preparation is nonnegotiable.
The compliance landscape is shifting beneath your feet
Regulatory authorities across process and discrete manufacturing sectors have recently updated compliance standards with a critical new emphasis: recovery capabilities from production outages. This shift aligns with evolving requirements from cybersecurity standards bodies and cyber insurance providers, all reflecting a sobering reality that modern cyberattacks on OT systems are increasingly likely to succeed.
For manufacturers, this creates a convergence of challenges. Your legacy OT systems — many running on decades-old platforms like Windows XP — weren't designed with today's recovery requirements in mind. Frameworks like IEC 62443, NIS2, NERC-CIP and GxP now demand robust resilience capabilities that many manufacturers still lack.
The financial stakes are staggering. According to research by ABB, manufacturers experience unplanned downtime at alarming rates, with nearly 70% facing outages monthly and 10% dealing with daily disruptions. At a median cost of $125,000 per hour, even a single day of downtime can translate to $1 million in losses. A week-long outage can knock $5 million off your balance sheet.
The cost of waiting
Plus, if compliance violations result in fines, contract losses or cyber insurance difficulties, costs can quickly spiral out of control. But the bigger risk is operational: When (not if) an incident occurs, will your recovery capabilities meet regulatory standards? Can you restore operations quickly enough to prevent catastrophic financial losses?
The difference between a few minutes of downtime and several hours, or days, isn't just operational — it's existential for many manufacturing operations. You need to protect your environment and be able to get it back up and running quickly in case of an incident.
A different kind of virtual conference for OT leaders
You’re not alone in facing a daunting set of challenges. In fact, you have some very good company in the manufacturing space. Leading manufacturers will come together at the 5th Annual Acronis OT Virtual Conference to share practical, field-tested knowledge and discuss how to navigate the new OT landscape. This won’t be a theoretical discussion. You'll gain insights from those who've been in the trenches.
Our guest speakers from InflexionPoint bring four decades of experience across the full OT value chain. Together with Acronis OT cyber resilience experts who have spent more than 20 years protecting infrastructures across manufacturing, energy, utilities, pharmaceuticals and transportation, they understand your specific challenges.
A holistic view of what actually works
The conference takes an unconventional approach by showing you how companies are actually preparing for compliance. Participants will discover not just what the standards say, but what organizations are implementing on the ground, what they're getting wrong and which processes make the biggest difference.
You'll discover how to:
- Prepare your plant for rising compliance standards now, before you're scrambling to meet new requirements under deadline pressure.
- Empower your plant workers for rapid self-service recovery in air-gapped environments, even for legacy OT systems. This capability is crucial when IT resources are hours away and every minute of downtime costs your organization dearly.
- Balance security with operational reality. The dilemma is clear: Your OT systems can't afford the downtime required for traditional security updates, but unprotected systems invite catastrophic risks. You need solutions designed specifically for OT environments that protect manufacturing infrastructure without disrupting production.
See real solutions in action
The conference includes a live demonstration of Acronis Cyber Protect for OT, where you'll see self-service recovery capabilities that enable non-IT staff to restore critical systems in minutes. Key capabilities you'll see demonstrated include:
- Universal Restore for recovering legacy systems to new hardware without compatibility issues.
- One-Click Recovery that empowers plant-floor personnel to restore failed systems without waiting for IT dispatch.
- Backup without downtime, conducting protection operations without taking OT systems offline or requiring reboots.
Join the conversation
Join the live Q&A session with experienced OT experts and gain direct access to professionals who understand the unique challenges of protecting operational technology in manufacturing environments. Bring your questions about compliance, recovery strategies, legacy system protection or air-gapped environment security.
Secure your place today and take the first step toward building the operational resilience your manufacturing operations demand.
About Acronis
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 21,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.
