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In 2025, manufacturing saw the highest share of cyberattacks among the leading industries worldwide. During the examined year, manufacturing companies encountered 27.7 percent of total cyberattacks. Organizations in finance and insurance followed closely, with 27 percent. Professional, business, and consumer services ranked third, with nine percent of reported cyberattacks.

Manufacturing industry and cyberattacks

The industry of manufacturing has been at the center of cyberattacks for a long time. The share of cyberattacks targeting organizations in this sector in 2018 was at 10 percent, while in 2025, it amounted to 27.7 percent. The situation is even more complicated when we look at the cyber vulnerabilities found in this sector. In 2024, critical vulnerabilities in manufacturing companies lasted 205 days on average.

IT perspective and prevention

With recent technology developments, cybersecurity is crucial to an organization’s success. Realizing this, companies have been gradually increasing cybersecurity investments. Thus, in 2024, the cybersecurity budget worldwide was forecast to increase to nearly 283 billion U.S. dollars. Roughly nine in ten board directors of companies worldwide in the professional services and media and entertainment industries say they expected an increase in the cybersecurity budget.