9pm Teams invite. War room. The kind of notification a risk manager never wants to see.

A ransom note. A demand for a cryptocurrency I had never heard of. One facility hit. Cost of downtime: roughly $1,500 a minute.

That number is the whole story of manufacturing security in one line.

You did the work. You identified your critical business functions. You assigned RTOs and RPOs. You got sign-off from the business. You filed the document somewhere a auditor can find it.