Hardening manufacturing cyber resilience
Safeguard operational uptime with phishing-resistant and hardware-backed security for every human, machine, and agent.
Modern cyber risk at the IT & OT boundary
Manufacturing remains the most targeted industry of cyber attacks for five years due to its pivotal role in the global supply chain and its wealth of information-rich IP. Malicious actors are using AI-powered automation to supercharge phishing and ransomware, creating costly unplanned downtime and supply chain consequences. Between legacy SCADA infrastructure and lateral movement risks, the pressure to modernize is intense.
If your IT and OT boundary can be compromised, your operational resilience, supply chain, and revenue are at risk.
IT and OT convergence
Conventional air-gaps are no longer; 72% of OT attacks originate from IT entry points.
Supply chain vulnerabilities
180,000+ systems exposed monthly create endless lateral entry points across the vendor ecosystem.
Agentic AI & autonomy
Autonomous machine-to-machine actions create unmonitored endpoints vulnerable to privilege escalation and disruption.
Industrial constraints
Shared workstations , mobile-restricted zones, and protective gear render legacy authentication unreliable and a safety hazard on the factory floor.
“Our aim was to eliminate account takeovers by adopting stronger MFA. Adopting YubiKeys has made it easy for us to continuously move our authentication strategy forward. Our goal is to enable passwordless authentication for all users in the future.”
Evolve your cybersecurity strategy to outpace modern threats.
This requires high-assurance solutions providing a unified defense from the production floor to the boardroom.
Prioritizing OT boundary hardening by securing human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication is a foundational pillar of resilience. Establishing a cryptographic root of trust with hardware passkeys and hardware security modules closes vulnerable gaps, safeguarding operational uptime and IP across the entire value chain.
“We introduced YubiKeys in our power operation SCADA systems to increase security with MFA. This process allows an operator to come on shift, authenticate quickly, and to take actions when appropriate, without any system interruptions. MFA ensures only authenticated users can gain access to operate the system.”
Secure your manufacturing ecosystem: humans, machines, and agents
The YubiKey
Secure human-to-machine communication: Deploy phishing-resistant multi-factor and passwordless authentication, to harden user access across critical IT, OT, SCADA and ICS environments.
The YubiHSM
Secure machine-to-machine communication: Protect the cryptographic foundation of automated processes, ensure the authenticity of components, and safeguard production integrity.
The bridge to passwordless built for manufacturing resilience.
Hardware passkeys such as the YubiKey deliver the strongest defense against modern phishing threats, offering phishing-resistant multi-factor and passwordless authentication. Based on open standards like FIDO2 and WebAuthn, YubiKeys use cryptographic authentication to verify users and ensure that credentials cannot be reused or intercepted. As a portable root of trust, the YubiKey moves with your employees—from the boardroom to the factory floor—securing every touchpoint in the manufacturing lifecycle.
The YubiKey advantage
Bridge infrastructure: Secure everything from legacy SCADA to cloud ERPs with one multi-protocol key. Multi-protocol support: FIDO U2F, WebAuthn/FIDO2 (passkeys), OTP/TOTP, OpenPGP and Smart card/PIV, and enables you to bridge to passwordless.
Eliminate credential risk: Stop phishing by removing vulnerable shared secrets with SMS, passwords, and mobile push notifications.
Industrial durability: IP68-certified and battery-free; works without internet for reliable 100% MFA coverage.
Frictionless productivity: Fast tap-and-go authentication across shared workstations, mobile-restricted factory floors, and corporate offices.
Regulatory assurance: FIPS 140-3 validated and aligns with NIST SP 800-63B, IEC 62443, NIS2 and Essential 8 to ensure you are audit-ready and compliant.
“By leveraging YubiKeys and the YubiHSM, a small form factor and powerful hardware security module, we increase the security of our supply chain at Schneider Electric.”
Protecting manufacturing with highest-assurance security
Read our white paper to learn the critical need to modernize MFA and secure the supply chain, and ensure product integrity with high-assurance security.
Cryptographic protection for the autonomous factory floor.
The ultra-portable YubiHSM , a hardware security module, provides hardware-backed protection for servers, applications and computing devices. By digitally signing firmware and components it prevents counterfeiting and ensures only genuine code enters your assembly line. In an era of agentic AI and software-defined power with autonomous decisions, the YubiHSM is the foundation for safeguarding industrial IP and operational safety across the end-to-end lifecycle.
The YubiHSM advantage
Versatile nano deployment: an innovative ‘nano’ form-factor that allows for flexible deployment into any standard USB slot.
Industrial scale security: enterprise-grade cryptographic security without the cost or complexity of traditional HSMs.
Protect product integrity: Sign firmware to eliminate counterfeiting and ensure only authorized code runs on systems.
Regulatory assurance: FIPS 140-3 validated to support highly regulated and industrial environments.
“YubiKeys are fast, robust and best-in-class: a best-in-class device and best-in-class security. It’s very smooth, and saves time compared to the people who have to enter the TOTP because you need to type six numbers, for every account. It’s much faster just to touch a key.”
Best practices to get started with phishing-resistant MFA at scale
Learn the six deployment best practices that can help your organization accelerate adoption of modern, phishing-resistant MFA at scale using the YubiKey.
Simple deployment. Scalable security.
Accelerate the deployment of phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication across your telecommunication ecosystem and supply chain with YubiKey as a Service—a complete, scalable approach to streamline the onboarding journey from purchase to adoption.
Simplified procurement
Seamless pre-enrollment
Managed global delivery
And more, with YubiKey as a Service
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We’re here to help! Talk to our experts on how you can secure access for every employee, partner, and client—without compromise, with Yubico as a Service, designed for businesses with 500+ employees seeking scalable authentication solutions.
