Driving Secure Growth for Industry 4.0
With advances in Industry 4.0, enterprises are leveraging industrial IoT (IIoT) and advanced digital manufacturing technologies to harness the power of data. These also open up plants and manufacturing industry to vulnerabilities from the growing threat landscape. Ensuring R&D safety, mitigating supply chain disruptions and securing assembly lines are vital. HCLTech Dynamic Cybersecurity Framework, based on digital foundation and digital trust, offers comprehensive cybersecurity services enhanced by AI and predictive analytics for proactive threat responses.
Enhancing Operational Resilience for Manufacturing Firms
HCLTech addresses cybersecurity challenges in Industry 4.0 with comprehensive solutions. These include safeguarding asset and vulnerability management, identity and access management, incident monitoring, third-party risk assessment, 360-degree plant and OT security and more. Leveraging AI and analytics, HCLTech’s solutions proactively mitigate threats, ensuring operational security and compliance.
Data security and data privacy
HCLTech’s data security and data privacy services protect enterprises against cyber threats like intellectual property theft and unapproved third-party access using data masking, fine-grained access controls and active database monitoring.
360° SecureOT framework
HCLTech’s 360° SecureOT framework secures key aspects of the operational chain — such as digital manufacturing assets, workers, connected technologies and processes — against cyber threats and business disruptions.
Cloud security
HCLTech’s cloud security services address real-time database and cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities crucial for Industry 4.0, securing the hybrid cloud environment, detecting and responding to threats and securing every digital touchpoint.
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
HCLTech’s GRC services, through a combination of deep domain knowledge and security expertise, safeguard enterprises against third-party cybersecurity vulnerabilities like phishing and identity theft, enhancing compliance and reducing risk.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Cybersecurity for Manufacturing & Industry 4.0
Manufacturers face a distinct mix of threats across both information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). The most significant risks include intellectual property theft (especially from R&D environments), ransomware that can shut down production lines, supply chain compromises introduced through third parties and attacks on industrial IoT (IIoT) devices that can trigger unplanned downtime, operational disruption, or even safety incidents.
Protecting intellectual property and sensitive production information is a top priority. Our data security and data privacy services apply controls such as data masking, fine-grained access management and continuous database activity monitoring. These measures help ensure that proprietary designs, process recipes and regulated customer data are accessed only by authorized users, reducing exposure to both insider threats and external attackers.
No, this is the best time. Security is most effective when it is built into your Industry 4.0 foundation rather than added later. Starting early with the HCLTech total resilience framework helps embed security and trust into every new IIoT deployment, cloud migration and connected workflow from the outset. This approach typically reduces long-term cost and complexity compared to retrofitting controls after systems are already live.
Our approach is grounded in the Total Resilience framework, designed specifically for digitally connected manufacturing environments. We focus on securing the convergence of IT and OT, going beyond traditional enterprise security to deliver end-to-end protection for plant operations, industrial control systems, connected workers and IIoT devices. The goal is to enable Industry 4.0 adoption through stronger resilience, greater visibility and digital trust.
Manufacturing ecosystems depend on vendors, integrators and logistics partners, which expands the attack surface. HCLTech supports organizations with third-party risk assessment services and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) capabilities to identify, evaluate and reduce vendor-related risks. This helps limit exposure to attacks originating through the supply chain, including credential compromise, phishing-based access and exploitation of insecure partner connections.
