Manufacturing & Industrial Organizations
Manufacturing Network Segmentation with Industrial Microsegmentation
Elisity helps manufacturers contain lateral movement across connected IT and OT networks. Apply identity-based policy to industrial devices and workloads, including systems that cannot run endpoint agents. Simulate changes before enforcing them through supported network infrastructure.
Challenges
Manufacturing organizations face mounting security challenges as legacy industrial systems become connected to enterprise networks. Traditional ICS network segmentation approaches struggle to protect these complex environments without disrupting critical production processes or requiring expensive infrastructure upgrades.
Network Segmentation Without Compromise
Challenge
Expanded Attack Surface
Digital transformation has connected previously air-gapped OT environments with enterprise networks, creating new attack vectors that cybercriminals exploit to gain unauthorized access to critical industrial systems.
Elisity's Solution
Comprehensive OT/IT Visibility
Elisity IdentityGraph combines network observations with context from connected IT and OT security tools. Use asset identity, device type and risk attributes to define policy for discovered industrial equipment and the systems it communicates with.
Challenge
Legacy Device Vulnerabilities
Industrial control systems (ICS) manufactured decades ago without security in mind lack necessary protections and cannot be readily updated, patched, or secured with traditional endpoint solutions.
Elisity's Solution
IEC 62443 Zone and Conduit Implementation
Build segmentation policy around plant zones and the communication needed between them. Use Policy Groups to organize assets, simulate proposed access changes and retain evidence for your security review.
Challenge
Compliance Complexity
Meeting stringent IEC 62443 requirements and defining proper zones and conduits becomes increasingly difficult with traditional network segmentation approaches that require complex VLAN configurations.
Elisity's Solution
Plan changes around plant operations
Use supported network infrastructure to enforce policy without installing endpoint agents on protected industrial devices. Review simulated traffic effects with operations teams before activating policies.
Challenge
Operational Continuity
Manufacturing organizations cannot tolerate production downtime or disruption that traditional security implementations often require, creating resistance to implementing proper security controls.
Elisity's Solution
Phased Security Implementation
Roll out your fine-tuned policies in waves using Elisity's Simulation Mode to analyze policy impact, identify potential issues, and refine policies before full-scale deployment, safeguarding your operations while strengthening security posture.
Resources
Elisity Microsegmentation: Accelerate Zero Trust Security in Weeks, Not Years
Stop East-West Attacks, Microsegment Your Networks
Manufacturing Network Segmentation FAQ
Explore how identity-based microsegmentation helps industrial teams protect connected IT and OT environments and review changes with operations teams.
Elisity enforces policy through supported network infrastructure without installing an Elisity endpoint agent on protected industrial devices. Use asset identity and connected IT and OT context to define the communication those devices need.
Build Policy Groups around plant assets and required communication, simulate policy against observed traffic, and review proposed changes with operations teams before activation. Roll out approved policies in phases.
The last configuration stays in place on supported network infrastructure if the plant loses its connection to the cloud. This preserves that configuration; it does not imply that new cloud-driven policy or identity updates continue while disconnected.
Resources

The OpenAI Hugging Face Incident Is a Lateral Movement Story, Not a Rogue AI Story

Elisity Release 26.7: Hierarchical policy, broader platform support, and deeper device context

