When IT breaks, production stops.
In manufacturing, “IT issues” quickly become missed shipments, overtime, scrap, and strained customer relationships. A single compromised mailbox or untested backup can cost a day of output — and possibly a key account.
Operations leadership shouldn’t be guessing whether old accounts are still active, whether vendors can see more than they should, or whether a backup will actually restore the systems you rely on to plan and run production. You should be able to say, “We’ve secured the environment around our production systems, and here’s the evidence our leadership, customers, and insurers have seen.”
Operational Snapshot
- Production Uptime & Continuity.
- Vendor & Engineering Access Control.
- Backup & Restore Proof.
- Optional 24/7 Monitoring & SOC Playbooks for ransomware, vendor credential abuse, and payment / PO diversion.
- Role-based onboarding and offboarding for plant floor, engineering, and office staff.
- Documented restore tests for systems you manage that support scheduling, production, and shipping.
Common Education IT Risks
- Ransomware or account compromise halts scheduling, production, or shipping.
- Payment or PO changes quietly pushed through a hijacked mailbox.
- Uncontrolled sharing of drawings, BOMs, and customer data with vendors and integrators.
- Downtime penalties, missed SLAs, and damaged confidence from strategic customers.
NTS helps manufacturers turn vague IT risk into a clear, defensible plan.
We work with manufacturers who carry real accountability for on-time delivery, quality, and safety. Your ERP, MES, and plant systems run the plant. NTS focuses on the users, devices, and networks you control that connect everything together. Our role is to translate technical controls into operating procedures and evidence that make sense to operations leadership, finance, and insurers — so everyone can see that your environment is being actively managed and improved.
Why organizations choose NTS:
- Security-first managed and co-managed IT built around production and engineering workflows.
- Optional in-house SOC for 24/7 monitoring, triage, and escalation.
- Playbooks for ransomware, mailbox takeover, vendor credential abuse, and payment diversion.
- Quarterly access and continuity checks for systems your organization manages.
- Evidence you can share with leadership, strategic customers, and insurers.
About Us
A simple plan you can explain in one slide to operations and leadership.
You don’t have to overhaul everything at once. We start where you are, stabilize the environment around production and shipping, and then build a program you can stand behind.
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Assess where IT risk meets production and revenue
We document where you’re exposed today: Microsoft 365 posture, vendor and engineering access, ransomware and continuity risk for systems you manage, backup and recovery posture, and who is actually watching alerts. You get a plain-language risk map prioritized by production impact, customer obligations, and insurance pressure.
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Stabilize & strengthen
We implement (or help your team implement) the controls that protect uptime: MFA and Conditional Access, phishing defense, disciplined onboarding and offboarding, data protection for drawings and BOMs, verified backups with timed restore tests for systems you own, and incident playbooks focused on ransomware, payment diversion, and vendor credential abuse.
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Operate & prove
We either stay in and run those controls for you, or co-manage them with your internal IT and operations leadership. That can include centralized log review, vulnerability scanning, SOC/SIEM correlation, quarterly access and continuity reviews, and reporting backed by evidence your leadership, customers, and insurers can actually use.
Start with a Manufacturing IT Risk & Compliance Assessment
What NTS secures around your manufacturing systems.
our ERP, MES, and plant control platforms are supported by their vendors. NTS focuses on the environment you manage — email, identities, endpoints, servers, networks, and supporting services — where most incidents begin.
Microsoft 365 Hardening for Manufacturing Workflows
We secure Outlook, Teams, and shared storage so engineering, plant, and back-office teams can work quickly without opening the door to phishing, credential theft, or silent mailbox takeover.
- MFA and Conditional Access tuned for plant, engineering, and leadership roles.
- Safe Links and Safe Attachments to block credential theft and PO/payment tampering.
- Targeted phishing defense and fraud awareness for AP, scheduling, and customer service.
- Retention and mailbox audit logging aligned with customer and insurer expectations.
Continuity & Production Recovery
We design and test recovery around what matters most: keeping lines moving, shipping product, and meeting customer deadlines — not just “the server is back up.”
- Monitoring of sign-in activity, endpoints, and core systems (with optional SOC coverage).
- Backup validation and timed restore tests for systems you manage that support production and shipping.
- Incident playbooks for ransomware, mailbox takeover, vendor credential misuse, and payment redirection.
- Patching and baseline enforcement across plant-floor and back-office systems.
Access & Staff / Vendor Control
We put structure around who can access drawings, BOMs, specs, ERP data, and shared folders — and keep those permissions current across turnover and vendor changes.
- Structured onboarding/offboarding for employees, temps, vendors, and integrators.
- Quarterly access reviews tied to role, facility, and system sensitivity.
- DLP and sensitivity labels for engineering IP and controlled customer data.
- Guidance for secure collaboration with customers, OEMs, and supply-chain partners.
Governance, Monitoring & Optional SOC
When leadership, customers, or insurers ask for proof, you shouldn’t have to scramble. We help you maintain current evidence with the option to add full SOC coverage
- Centralized evidence: access reviews, restore tests, key policies, and training records.
- Log collection and review across firewalls, endpoints, identity, and shared mailboxes.
- Optional 24/7 SOC for correlation, enrichment, and escalation.
- Executive reporting that ties IT risk to uptime, delivery, and contract exposure.
Flexible by design
Whether you’re operating multiple plants or a single facility, NTS scales with you — from managed IT to full security operations and insurer / customer reporting. Start with what’s necessary now and expand when ready, without changing providers. We can operate as your managed IT team, augment internal staff in specific areas (like vendor offboarding, centralized logging, continuity testing, or 24×7 alerting), or deliver executive-ready reporting and SOC coverage for leadership, customers, and insurers.
Prefer a quick call?
Talk directly with an engineer about your environment, clinical systems, and what absolutely cannot go down.
Main Office
229-226-2110
What you’ll walk away with
- A plain-language view of current security and continuity risk.
- A prioritized list of improvements with realistic timelines.
- Guidance you can share with leadership, compliance, or insurance.
- Next steps your team can actually execute.
- Options for ongoing support — managed, co-managed, or project-based.
We’d love the chance to speak with you to show you how we can drastically relieve the stress that stems form your network’s security and streamline your processes to be ready for anything.
