Protect Your Manufacturing Business Before a Cyberattack Costs You Everything
Cyber Insurance Group builds cyber liability coverage around the real risks manufacturing companies face, not a generic policy. Licensed in 28 states, backed by 12+ A-rated carriers.
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Technology Moved Faster Than Your Coverage Did
Most manufacturing companies we talk to haven’t thought about cyber risk until something already went wrong, or almost did.
You store customer data (names, payment info, maybe health records) and you’re not sure what your real exposure is if it’s breached.
You accept online payments or run point-of-sale systems, but have never confirmed whether a payment compromise is actually covered.
You’ve never been walked through what a ransomware attack would actually cost you in downtime, recovery, and lost business.
Your current policy, if you have one, was written before remote logins, cloud tools, and phishing emails became part of daily business.
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Why Cyber Liability Coverage Matters for Manufacturers
Manufacturers run production lines, vendor networks, and increasingly connected industrial control systems, putting them squarely in the crosshairs of ransomware gangs who know a halted assembly line costs far more per hour than a typical ransom demand. Manufacturers holding defense contracts face real federal obligations under CMMC and NIST SP 800-171, while most other manufacturers operate under no industry-specific cyber mandate and answer only to general state data breach notification laws.
Manufacturing ransomware incidents rose from 937 in 2024 to 1,466 in 2025, a 56% increase, according to Dragos’s 2025 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Year in Review, and Verizon’s 2025 DBIR found ransomware present in 35% of manufacturing breaches. Either way, a single ransomware incident that shuts down production or exposes vendor and customer data can carry costs no manufacturer wants to absorb alone, which is where cyber liability coverage comes in.
Our Comprehensive List of Cyber Coverage Operations
Don’t leave your organization’s security to chance. Explore our comprehensive list of coverage operations.
First-Party Coverage
If your systems go down or your data is stolen, this pays to get you back up and running, covering data recovery, lost income during downtime, and extortion demands, not just the IT bill.
See What’s CoveredThird-Party Coverage
If someone sues you because their data was exposed through your business, this covers your legal defense, regulatory fines, and settlement costs instead of coming out of your own pocket.
See What’s CoveredAdditional Coverages
Round out your policy with crisis PR support, breach-prep services, and employee security training, the pieces that keep a bad day from becoming a bad year.
See What’s CoveredThe Cyber Insurance Group Match
Our named process for finding the right coverage for your manufacturing business, fast and without the guesswork.
Tell us about your business
We ask what data you handle, what systems you run, and where your actual exposure lives before we talk price.
We match you across carriers
We compare options across 12+ A-rated carriers and explain the differences in limits, exclusions, and deductibles.
You’re protected
Nothing is bound until you approve. Once covered, we track renewals and revisit coverage as your business grows.
Real Cyberattacks on Manufacturing Businesses
If you run a manufacturing business, ransomware doesn’t just lock up your files, it can physically stop your production line, because the systems attackers target are often wired directly into your equipment.
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2021JBS USAMeat Processing
REvil ransomware forced the shutdown of beef and pork processing plants across the U.S., Canada, and Australia; the company paid an $11 million ransom to resolve the attack.
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2022Kojima IndustriesToyota Supplier, Japan
A ransomware attack on this supplier’s systems forced Toyota to shut down 14 factories and 28 production lines for about a day, because Toyota’s just-in-time manufacturing depends on supplier data systems staying online.
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By the Numbers
- Ransomware attack rates against manufacturing and production organizations were 23% in 2025, after two-thirds of manufacturers reported an attack in 2023.Sophos, The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2025. Source
What This Means for Your Business
Manufacturing’s cyber exposure is distinct because attacks frequently hit operational technology and industrial control systems directly tied to physical production, not just office IT and data. That means ransomware causes real production downtime and safety risk, which is why manufacturers need business interruption coverage sized to actual line-stoppage costs, not a generic data-breach estimate. Source.
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Cyber Insurance Group is a brand of The Allen Thomas Group, independent since 2003 and holding active insurance licenses in all 28 states we serve. No single insurer signs our paychecks. With 12+ A-rated carriers to choose from, our job is matching your business to the coverage that actually wants it.
Carriers we work with include Chubb, Travelers, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, Progressive, Cincinnati Insurance, Auto-Owners, AmTrust, and Western Reserve Group. Not every carrier writes in every state.
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Before You Decide
The objections we actually hear from business owners, answered straight.
Do manufacturers need cyber liability insurance?
Manufacturing is one of the few sectors where a cyber incident stops physical output. Sophos put the ransomware attack rate against manufacturing and production organizations at 23% in 2025, after two-thirds of manufacturers reported an attack in 2023. The loss shows up as idle lines rather than exposed records.
What does cyber liability insurance cover for a manufacturer?
Business interruption for halted production, the cost of restoring systems and data, extortion response and negotiation, forensics, and dependent business interruption where the incident happened at a supplier rather than at your plant.
What does cyber liability insurance not cover for a manufacturer?
It does not cover physical damage to plant and machinery, which belongs to your property policy, and the overlap at the boundary is worth checking. It also will not pay to modernize legacy control systems, and deliberate acts are excluded.
Why does operational technology change the insurance a manufacturer needs?
Because attacks frequently reach operational technology and industrial control systems tied to physical production, not just office IT. That means the real exposure is line-stoppage cost, and business interruption limits should be sized to what an hour of stopped production actually costs you, rather than to a generic data-breach estimate.
How much does cyber liability insurance cost for a manufacturer?
Most small businesses pay between $400 and $8,000 a year, with the average landing around $1,500, but manufacturers are priced on downtime exposure as much as on data, so the range widens quickly with plant size and revenue per hour. See the cost guide, or get a number for your operation.
We don’t handle customer data. Why would we need this?
Ransomware doesn’t need your customer data to hurt you, it targets the systems running your production line directly. The cost shows up as downtime and extortion demands, not a data breach notification bill.
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What Happens When Your Plant Stops?
Manufacturing cyber losses are rarely about records. They are about a line that stopped, a product already in the field, or an eligibility you lose.
Auto & OEM Suppliers
Your outage does not stop a supplier, it stops an assembly plant, and the line-down charges are contractual rather than caused.
See Auto Supplier CoverageChemical Manufacturing
The federal security program everyone still cites lapsed in 2023, which left a gap rather than a requirement.
See Chemical Manufacturing CoverageDefense & Aerospace
Seventy-two hours to report, and the real consequence is not cost. It is whether you stay eligible to hold the contract.
See Defense Supplier CoverageMedical Device
The only manufacturer here with a statutory product security duty, so your exposure is the device in the field, not the records in the office.
See Medical Device Coverage