Blueprint Resilience
Manufacturing Technology Resilience

How long can you keep producing
when everything goes wrong?

That's the only question that matters at board level. Not “How secure are we?”

Blueprint Resilience engineers your Minimum Viable Production Unit: the smallest sustainable production capability that keeps your commercial, contractual and operational obligations standing when technology, operations, supply chain or people fail.

Fixed scope. Fixed deliverables. Fixed price. No hourly-rate guesswork.

MVPU Framework
Our methodology, business down not technology up
IEC 62443
Standards-aligned architecture reviews
Fixed Price
Agreed before you sign anything
27.7%
of all cyberattacks in 2025 hit manufacturing, the highest of any sector, five years running.
IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, 2026
$260K
average cost of one hour of unplanned manufacturing downtime.
Aberdeen Research, industry benchmark
56%
year-on-year rise in ransomware attacks against manufacturers in 2025.
Industrial Cyber / ransomware tracking, 2026
■  27.7% of 2025 cyberattacks hit manufacturing ■  56% YoY rise in ransomware vs manufacturers ■  IEC 62443 — Industrial Automation Security ■  $260,000 average cost per hour of downtime ■  NIS2 Article 21 — Technical Security Measures ■  ISA-95 / Purdue Model — Architecture Alignment ■  27.7% of 2025 cyberattacks hit manufacturing ■  56% YoY rise in ransomware vs manufacturers ■  IEC 62443 — Industrial Automation Security ■  $260,000 average cost per hour of downtime ■  NIS2 Article 21 — Technical Security Measures ■  ISA-95 / Purdue Model — Architecture Alignment
// How we're structured
A pyramid of value,
not a timesheet

Strategic advisory at the top. Architecture and resilience services in the middle. Fixed-scope Blueprint Assessments at the base — your lowest-risk entry point into the framework.

01 —

Strategic Advisory

Senior oversight without a full-time hire. Interim CISO, Virtual CTO or Board Advisory support for organisations that need the seniority, not another headcount line.

Interim CISOVirtual CTOBoard AdvisoryM&A Due Diligence
02 —

Architecture Services

Time & materials engineering work to close the gaps a Blueprint Assessment finds: target operating models, network segmentation, Zero Trust, technology roadmaps.

Target Operating ModelsZero TrustOT SegmentationRoadmaps
03 —

Blueprint Assessments

Fixed scope, fixed deliverables, fixed price. The lowest-risk way to get a board-ready answer before committing to anything bigger.

MVPU Blueprint AssessmentFactory Health CheckNIS2/IEC 62443 Gap
The Minimum Viable
Production Unit (MVPU)

Resilience begins by understanding business value, not technology. Every assessment, workshop and recommendation starts with the business and works down until the supporting technology is understood.

Traditional resilience flows Technology → Recovery → Business. MVPU reverses it: Business → Production → Process → People → Technology. Technology becomes the last dependency you examine, not the first.

Why we don't just use the 80/20 rule: a pharmaceutical packaging line might generate only 10% of turnover, but losing it triggers contractual penalties and reputational damage that dwarf the revenue. MVPU asks the sharper question: what is the minimum production capability required to keep the business commercially viable? The answer might be 82%, 67%, or 35% — it depends entirely on your business, and that's exactly what we go and find out.

MVPU Framework
PeopleMapped
ProcessMapped
ProductionMapped
TechnologyMapped
Supply ChainMapped
“The smallest sustainable production capability that enables an organisation to continue meeting its critical commercial, contractual and operational obligations during a disruptive event.”
// The reality
It's not if you'll be breached.
It's when.

Unlike IT environments, a compromise in OT can mean physical damage, safety incidents, or prolonged operational outages. AI has collapsed attack timelines from days to minutes, and manufacturing is now the most targeted sector in the world.

61%
of all manufacturing malware-related breaches are now driven by ransomware.
Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
<30 min
the time it now takes to complete an attack that took nine days in 2021. AI has collapsed the timeline.
CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report
80%+
of ransomware attacks now use AI at some stage of the attack chain.
MIT Sloan

Cyber security, architecture, engineering, disaster recovery, business continuity, OT, cloud and governance are all supporting disciplines in answering one board-level question: how long can you keep producing when everything goes wrong?

// Standards expertise
Built on the
right frameworks

Every engagement is grounded in recognised standards — ensuring defensible, auditable outcomes that satisfy regulators and board-level stakeholders alike.

ISA-95

Purdue Model Alignment

Reference architecture reviews that map your OT/IT layers against the ISA-95 and Purdue standard, the backbone of defensible network segmentation.

IEC 62443

Industrial Automation Security

The definitive international standard series for securing industrial automation and control systems. Gap assessments benchmark you directly against it.

NIS2

EU Network & Information Security

Readiness assessments and implementation support for manufacturers subject to NIS2 Article 21 obligations.

Zero Trust

Architecture & Segmentation

Target operating models and network segmentation designed around Zero Trust principles, adapted to real OT operational constraints.

// Who this is built for
Companies large enough to have OT,
but not so large they already run a global architecture office

You're the sweet spot: real operational technology risk, real contractual exposure, and no in-house team dedicated to closing the gap.

Food Manufacturing Packaging Paper Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Automotive Suppliers Building Materials Energy-Intensive Manufacturing
The Resilience
Finder

Answer four quick questions. No score, no traffic lights — just a straight answer on where to start, in under a minute.

What we'll ask about
What's driving the concern right now
Whether your MVPU is already mapped
Whether there's a compliance deadline in play
Who owns this internally today

No score, no percentage — just a recommendation tailored to your answers.

Every engagement leaves
you with IP, not just a PDF

Blueprint Resilience helps industrial organisations understand and engineer their Minimum Viable Production Unit: the smallest sustainable production capability required to keep meeting commercial, contractual and operational obligations through disruption.

Reference architectures, decision trees, checklists, templates and governance packs — reusable assets your team keeps and builds on long after we've left the building.

Built from the same framework used for Interim CISO and Virtual CTO engagements, packaged into one fixed-price assessment as your entry point.

The Blueprint Guarantee

If we don't identify at least one production-critical exposure your last audit, review or assessment missed, the assessment is free. We put our fee on the outcome, not your trust.

Food Manufacturing
Packaging
Paper
Chemicals
Pharmaceuticals
Automotive Suppliers
Building Materials
Energy-Intensive Manufacturing
// Get started
Stop guessing how
long you'd last. Find out.

Request the MVPU Blueprint Assessment. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before you sign anything. And if we don't surface a production-critical exposure your last review missed, it costs you nothing.



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