Modern manufacturers depend on converged IT and OT networks to keep production running, supply chains connected, and intellectual property protected. UIT delivers managed IT that treats uptime, security, and compliance as continuous operations built into your environment from day one.
From NIST and CMMC requirements to OT network segmentation, we implement the controls your auditors, prime contractors, and cyber insurers expect into the infrastructure your teams rely on every shift.
OT and IT under one roof
We manage your office network and your production floor as a single environment, closing the gaps that open when two separate teams try to coordinate.
Uptime-first engineering
Every change we make considers production impact first. Maintenance windows, rollback plans, and redundancy are standard, not optional.
One team owns the outcome
Named engineers, a responsive service desk, and executive escalation paths so plant leadership always knows who to call.
Connected production floors, legacy industrial systems, and increasingly sophisticated threat actors create a security landscape that general-purpose IT providers rarely understand. These are the challenges we hear most from manufacturing leadership.
Depending on the operation, an hour of unplanned downtime can range from six figures to well over seven figures. When network failures, ransomware, or mismanaged updates halt a production line, the losses extend well beyond that single shift into missed shipments, contractual penalties, and strained customer relationships.
Manufacturing has been the most attacked industry for four consecutive years. In Verizon’s 2024 DBIR manufacturing snapshot, ransomware/extortion was involved in over 30% of manufacturing breaches, with average recovery costs reaching $1.7 million. Attackers know that production-dependent organizations face enormous pressure to pay rather than let lines sit idle.
Connecting production equipment, SCADA systems, and ERP platforms to corporate networks introduces risk that traditional IT providers rarely understand. Legacy controllers running outdated protocols sit alongside modern cloud workloads, and a vulnerability on either side can cascade into the other.
Multiple facilities with different equipment vintages, local vendors, and inconsistent configurations make it nearly impossible to maintain a unified security posture. When no single provider has visibility across every plant, gaps accumulate and incident response slows to a crawl.
Each solution maps directly to a pain point. We built our manufacturing IT practice around closing the gaps between production demands, security requirements, and compliance obligations.
Patching, firmware updates, and configuration changes are scheduled around your production calendar with documented rollback procedures. Our monitoring catches degradation before it becomes an outage, keeping your lines running and your maintenance windows planned.
Endpoint protection, email security, vulnerability management, and 24/7 monitoring tuned for the ransomware and IP theft campaigns that target manufacturers. With PointGuard, we detect threats early and contain them before they reach production systems.
Standardized configurations, centralized monitoring, and network segmentation between corporate and production environments. Every plant, warehouse, and remote office operates under the same security baseline with local responsiveness.
Through vCISO and PointGuard, we maintain the security controls, documentation, and evidence collection that NIST 800-171, CMMC, and customer security questionnaires require. When an auditor or prime contractor asks for proof, the records already exist.
Whether you serve the defense industrial base or commercial supply chains, compliance obligations are growing. UIT embeds the technical controls, documentation, and monitoring that these frameworks require into your cybersecurity, IT, and compliance operations.
Controlled Unclassified Information & defense supply chain
Manufacturers in the defense industrial base must protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) under NIST SP 800-171 and demonstrate compliance through the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The CMMC final rule took effect in December 2024, and the DoD begins phasing CMMC requirements into applicable contracts starting Nov. 10, 2025, over a three-year, four-phase rollout. UIT implements and maintains the 110 security controls that CMMC Level 2 requires, from access control and audit logging to incident response and configuration management, so your organization is assessment-ready before contract deadlines arrive.
Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover
The NIST CSF is the foundational risk management framework adopted across manufacturing. Version 2.0, released in 2024, added Govern as a sixth function, placing cybersecurity governance squarely at the leadership level. UIT aligns your IT and OT security programs to the CSF structure, providing the asset inventories, access controls, continuous monitoring, incident response plans, and recovery procedures the framework calls for.
Industrial automation and control system security
IEC 62443 is among the most comprehensive cybersecurity standard for industrial automation and control systems, addressing requirements for asset owners, system integrators, and product suppliers. UIT uses this framework to guide OT network segmentation, zone architecture, and access control decisions so your production environment meets recognized industrial security benchmarks.
201 CMR 17.00 (M.G.L. c. 93H)
Massachusetts requires any entity holding personal information of state residents to maintain a comprehensive Written Information Security Program (WISP) with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. For manufacturers with employees or customers in Massachusetts, this means documented access controls, encryption, secure authentication, monitoring, and third-party oversight. UIT builds and maintains these controls as part of ongoing operations.
ITAR Compliance Support
Access controls, encryption, and U.S.-person-only data handling for defense manufacturers
ISO 27001 Readiness
Information security management system alignment for supply chain qualification
