Protect Manufacturing Data and Production Continuity
Manufacturing is the most targeted industry for cyberattacks globally. BrickStor SP defends intellectual property, production data, and operational continuity with real-time active defense, immutable protection, and rapid recovery at the storage layer.
Why manufacturing is under attack
Manufacturing has become the most-attacked industry worldwide. Adversaries target trade secrets, CAD/CAM files, process recipes, supply chain data, and production control systems. A single ransomware event can halt production lines, disrupt supply chains, and cost millions per day in lost output.
Many manufacturers operate converged OT/IT environments with legacy systems that expand the attack surface. Intellectual property stored as unstructured files — engineering drawings, formulations, specifications — is especially vulnerable to exfiltration and encryption by both external attackers and insiders.
Traditional storage was built for performance and capacity. It was not built to defend the data that keeps production running.
What BrickStor SP brings to every deployment
Four patented capabilities at the core of every BrickStor SP deployment. The next section covers what each one means inside a manufacturing environment specifically.
Active Defense →
Patented inline detection and response in the storage data path. Ransomware, insider misuse, and bulk exfiltration get stopped in under a second — before the write completes.
ABAC →
Attribute-based access control evaluated on every SMB, NFS, S3, and Web Drive operation. Data Centric Zero Trust — clearance, program, device, network, and behavior on each request.
ImmutaVault →
Patented virtual air gap built into the storage system. Immutable, indelible, isolated recovery copies that survive even attackers with administrative privilege.
Intelligent Bulk Remediation →
Patented surgical file-level recovery. After an incident, restore only the files the attacker touched in minutes — not the entire volume from snapshot over days.
How the pillars translate to IP, OT, and the supply chain
ITAR / EAR enforcement on the file share itself
ABAC evaluates nationality, clearance, and program assignment inline on every read — so the controlled technical data in your engineering vault is enforced by the storage system, not by a separate label tagger that the technical-data custodian has to police.
CMMC Level 2 evidence map
NIST 800-171 controls 3.1 (Access Control), 3.3 (Audit), 3.13 (System and Communications), and 3.14 (System Integrity) align to platform capabilities a CMMC assessor can validate without parsing logs from four different tools.
Bulk exfiltration of trade secrets is visible
Behavioral analytics baseline what an engineer normally pulls and flag the recursive CAD-vault traversals, formulation downloads, and supplier-folder bulk reads that precede a competitor lawsuit or a nation-state attribution.
Line-of-business continuity
Surgical recovery brings back only the BOMs, work instructions, and quality records that an attack touched — in minutes — without volume rollbacks losing the production runs that happened after the incident started.
The real cost of manufacturing downtime
When ransomware stops a production line, the impact extends far beyond one facility. Orders are delayed, supply chain partners are affected, contractual penalties accumulate, and customer trust erodes. For manufacturers operating just-in-time processes, even hours of downtime can cascade through the entire value chain.
Protecting intellectual property at the storage layer
A manufacturer's most valuable assets are often stored as unstructured files — CAD drawings, CAM programs, chemical formulations, process specifications, and engineering documentation. BrickStor SP protects these assets directly at the data layer.
Industry and regulatory alignment
NIST Manufacturing Profile
Cybersecurity framework tailored for manufacturing environments
CMMC
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification for defense supply chain contractors
IEC 62443
Industrial automation and control system cybersecurity standards
ITAR / EAR
Export control requirements for defense and dual-use technical data
ISO 27001
Information security management system requirements
Cyber Insurance
Meeting insurer requirements for ransomware resilience and data protection controls
Who benefits
CISO
Real-time ransomware defense and insider threat detection for the data that matters most — your intellectual property and production systems.
CIO / VP IT
A unified platform that replaces multiple point products for file storage, activity monitoring, immutable protection, and encryption.
VP Manufacturing / Operations
Storage security that minimizes production downtime risk with rapid detection, containment, and surgical file recovery.
Compliance / Legal
Audit-ready controls, export compliance support, and immutable records for regulatory obligations and IP protection.
Frequently asked questions
- BrickStor SP applies Active Defense monitoring to all file operations, detecting and stopping ransomware encryption, unauthorized bulk downloads, and anomalous access patterns targeting design files, process recipes, and proprietary specifications in real time.
- Yes. BrickStor SP provides capabilities aligned with multiple CMMC practices, including access control, audit and accountability, media protection, and system and information integrity. It is especially relevant for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in the defense supply chain.
- Active Defense detects and stops ransomware in real time, before encryption can spread. If files are affected, Intelligent Bulk Remediation identifies exactly which files were impacted and restores them from immutable snapshots in minutes — not the entire file system over days.
- BrickStor SP provides attribute-based access control, end-to-end encryption, immutable audit trails, and activity monitoring that support ITAR and EAR requirements for protecting export-controlled technical data.
- Yes. BrickStor SP supports distributed deployments as appliances, virtual machines, or SAN gateways, with Hub Central providing centralized management and visibility across all sites.
Protect Manufacturing Data and Production Continuity
BrickStor SP helps manufacturers defend intellectual property, maintain production uptime, and meet compliance mandates with storage-layer active defense and immutable protection.