Welcome to the fifth edition of the annual Sophos State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production report, which reveals the reality of ransomware for manufacturing and production organizations in 2025.
This year’s report unveils how manufacturing and production organization’s experiences of ransomware have evolved over the past year. It also shines light onto previously unexplored areas, including the operational factors that left manufacturing and production organizations exposed to attacks and the human impact of incidents on IT/cybersecurity teams.
Based on the real-world frontline experiences of 332 IT and cybersecurity leaders from the manufacturing and production sector, whose organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year,
