Cybersecurity for Manufacturing

Yes, if you’re in a covered sub-sector, machinery, electronics, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, medical devices, chemicals or food, with at least 50 employees or over €10 million in turnover. Cybersäkerhetslagen has been in force since 15 January 2026, and it covers your whole business once any part qualifies, not just the in-scope division. Even below the threshold, larger customers are increasingly passing these requirements down contractually anyway.

Essential entities face penalties of up to 10 million euros or 2% of global annual turnover. Important entities face up to 7 million euros or 1.4% of turnover. Beyond fines, supervisory authorities can prohibit a senior manager from exercising management functions.

Article 21(2)(d) requires every third-party vendor relationship to be assessed, documented and kept current and this explicitly includes machine builders, integrators and IT suppliers with remote access to your systems. Standing remote-access accounts left open after a service visit are one of the most common entry points attackers use against manufacturers.

IT support keeps the lights on. MDR is the team watching for the break-in while that’s happening, dedicated analysts monitoring your environment around the clock, investigating anything unusual and shutting it down before it spreads. Most manufacturers don’t have anyone watching at 2am on a Saturday which is exactly when ransomware groups tend to move against a production environment.

Our MDR covers endpoint, identity and cloud monitoring, plus the IT systems that support your production environment. That distinction matters: OT ransomware dwell time averages 42 days, versus 5 days for organisations with full OT visibility. Every factory’s setup differs, so we map exactly where your production network meets what we monitor and we’re upfront if a dedicated OT/ICS specialist would serve you better alongside us.

MDR for Swedish manufacturing is configured around escalation runbooks, NIS2 incident reporting aligned to MCF requirements, data handling in Sweden-based infrastructure and analyst awareness of the IT/OT boundary and vendor access points common in industrial environments.

Yes, if that’s what makes sense for your operation. Deployment is silent enough that most clients don’t need to wait for a shutdown window, but if you’d rather align sensor rollout with a planned changeover or maintenance period, we’ll build the schedule around it rather than the other way round.

Not for the core MDR rollout. Deployment focuses on endpoints, identities and the IT layer around production, not direct connections into PLCs or SCADA. If deeper OT visibility comes up later, that’s a separate conversation with clear boundaries agreed upfront.

No, we’re not in your CAD or PLM systems. What we collect is security telemetry, endpoint activity, identity logs, network and cloud signals, not the content of your design files. Where AIDR is in scope, it watches how AI tools interact with that data, again from a security standpoint, not by reading engineering IP itself.

Mostly three things: engineering designs and product IP, production schedules and order data that let them time an attack for maximum disruption and standard staff and payroll records. The IP angle is what makes manufacturing different from most industries, a stolen design file can be worth more to a competitor than any ransom payment.

A flat monthly fee based on your endpoint count, full stop. Incident response, analyst escalation and alert handling are already in that number, not billed separately. Penetration testing, CISO as a Service and the other add-ons are quoted on their own.

Global platforms are built to sell licenses to enterprise IT departments, not to know your plant. eBuilder Security has worked with Swedish manufacturers and industrial suppliers since 2002, speaks Swedish and sizes the service for teams that don’t have the headcount to run a 24/7 operation themselves.