Industry

Manufacturing & Industrial

Where a security incident stops the line.

Industrial environments combine long-lived operational technology with an IT estate that changes weekly, and the boundary between them is where most incidents travel. Gryffin secures IT/OT boundaries, assesses control systems safely, and builds the ransomware resilience that production continuity depends on.

Industry Challenges

What makes this industry different.

Operational technology with decades-long lifecycles

Control systems predating modern security assumptions cannot be patched or replaced on an IT schedule, so protection has to work around them.

A flat boundary between IT and OT

Convergence has connected environments that were designed on the assumption of isolation, giving an office-network intrusion a path to production.

Downtime measured in revenue per hour

Production interruption costs are immediate and quantifiable, which makes manufacturing a favoured ransomware target.

Supply chain and remote vendor access

Equipment vendors frequently hold remote access to plant systems under arrangements that were never security reviewed.

OT engagements are scoped around the process, not the network diagram. Testing in live industrial environments is passive by default, with any active testing agreed in writing and scheduled into maintenance windows.

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Detect it early. Recover without paying.

Ransomware is not a single event; it is a campaign with a long, noisy run-up - initial access, credential theft, lateral movement, backup tampering - and only then encryption. Every stage before the last is an opportunity to detect and stop it. Gryffin builds detection across that whole chain, hardens the backups attackers go after first, and tests recovery so the decision about paying never has to be a real one.

Services Description

What the engagement covers.

Precursor detection

Detection content for the stages that precede encryption: credential dumping, privilege escalation, lateral movement, shadow copy deletion and backup tampering.

Encryption behaviour detection and automated containment

Behavioural detection of mass file modification with automated host isolation, executed within seconds rather than after triage.

Backup immutability and isolation

Review and hardening of backup architecture - immutable copies, isolated credentials, offline or logically air-gapped tiers - because attackers target backups before they encrypt.

Recovery runbooks and testing

Documented recovery procedures with defined recovery objectives, tested against real restore timings rather than assumed ones.

Attack surface reduction

Closing the common initial access routes: exposed remote access, unpatched perimeter services, weak authentication and over-permissive privilege.

Retained incident response

A contracted response capability with committed activation times and pre-authorised containment actions.

What you receive

Ransomware readiness assessment across detection, backup and recovery
Detection content covering precursor stages and encryption behaviour
Backup architecture review with an immutability and isolation plan
Tested recovery runbooks with measured restore times
Attack surface reduction plan with prioritised actions
Tabletop exercise with technical and executive participants

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Detection across the whole chain

Detecting encryption is detecting failure. Our content covers the days of activity that precede it, where stopping the campaign is still cheap.

Backups hardened as a target

Modern ransomware operators find and destroy backups first. We review backup architecture the way an attacker would and harden the paths they use.

Recovery times measured, not estimated

Restore procedures are tested against real data volumes. Organisations routinely discover their assumed recovery time is out by an order of magnitude - better to find that in a test.

Containment that does not wait for approval

Automated isolation on encryption behaviour, under authority agreed in advance. Minutes of delay is the difference between one host and the estate.

Use Cases

Illustrative. Scenarios drawn from common engagement patterns.

Encryption starting at 02:00 on a Sunday

Situation: A manufacturer with no out-of-hours coverage discovered the attack when the first shift arrived.
What Gryffin does: 24x7 monitoring with automated containment on encryption behaviour, backup immutability validation, tested recovery runbooks, retained response.
Outcome: A subsequent attempt was detected and the host isolated within minutes, with no production impact.

Backups encrypted along with everything else

Situation: An organisation's backup infrastructure shared credentials and network reach with production, and was destroyed in the same attack.
What Gryffin does: Backup redesign with immutable copies, isolated credentials, a logically air-gapped tier, and restore testing.
Outcome: Recovery capability that survives estate compromise, verified by test rather than assumed.

A board asking whether the company would pay

Situation: Leadership had no basis on which to answer, because nobody knew how long recovery would take.
What Gryffin does: Recovery testing with measured restore times, an executive tabletop exercise, and a documented decision framework.
Outcome: A defensible position on recovery, and gaps closed before the question became a real one.

Nothing crosses without being asked who it is.

The legitimate flows through untouched and compliant; the malicious never makes it past the wall. This pillar covers the controls that decide what enters your network, what moves inside it, and who is allowed to reach what.

Services Description

9 services within this pillar.

Next-Generation Firewall & Perimeter Defence

Design and policy engineering for next-generation firewalls with application awareness, inspection and threat prevention - including the rulebase cleanup that most inherited estates badly need.

Intrusion Detection & Prevention (IDS / IPS)

Tuned detection and inline prevention across north-south and east-west traffic, calibrated to your environment so alerts remain worth reading.

Network Access Control & Segmentation

Device posture checks, role-based network admission and segmentation that contains an intrusion to the zone it started in rather than the estate it wanted.

Secure Web Gateway & DNS Security

Outbound control over web and DNS traffic - category and content policy, encrypted traffic inspection, and blocking of command-and-control callbacks.

DDoS Protection & Traffic Resilience

Volumetric and application-layer mitigation architecture with tested failover, so availability holds under deliberate pressure.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Application-level access that replaces flat VPN trust - every request authenticated, authorised and continuously evaluated against device and user context.

Identity & Access Governance

Joiner-mover-leaver automation, privileged access management, entitlement review and least-privilege enforcement across on-premises and cloud identity stores.

Multi-Factor & Adaptive Authentication

Phishing-resistant authentication rolled out with a migration path users will actually accept, with risk-based step-up for sensitive actions.

Secure Connectivity (VPN, SD-WAN)

Encrypted site-to-site and remote connectivity with resilient routing, integrated inspection and consistent policy across branch, data centre and cloud.

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Vendor-independent design, multi-vendor delivery

We design to the requirement and then deploy on the platform that fits - including the one you already own. Our engineers are certified across the major firewall, NAC and identity platforms rather than tied to a single OEM.

Rulebase archaeology

Inherited firewall estates accumulate thousands of rules nobody dares touch. We analyse actual traffic against policy, retire what is dead, tighten what is over-permissive, and document what remains.

Zero Trust delivered in stages people accept

ZTNA rollouts fail on adoption, not technology. We sequence migration by application and user group, run VPN and ZTNA in parallel through cutover, and keep a rollback path open at every stage.

Identity treated as the real perimeter

Access governance, privileged access and phishing-resistant authentication are designed as one programme, because an attacker with valid credentials walks past every network control you own.

Use Cases

Illustrative. Scenarios drawn from common engagement patterns.

Flat network, one breach away from everything

Situation: A logistics business ran a largely flat internal network where a single compromised workstation could reach production systems and the finance environment alike.
What Gryffin does: Traffic analysis, segmentation design by business function, phased NAC rollout with device posture checks, and east-west inspection between zones.
Outcome: Blast radius reduced to a single zone, with segmentation validated by a follow-up internal penetration test.

VPN cannot carry a permanently hybrid workforce

Situation: Concentrator capacity, split-tunnel exceptions and broad internal access had turned remote access into both a performance problem and a security one.
What Gryffin does: ZTNA design with per-application access policy, device posture enforcement, phased migration by department, and decommissioning of legacy VPN access once traffic had moved.
Outcome: Full remote access without network-level trust, and an access model where leavers lose everything the moment identity is disabled.

Contractors and third parties with more access than anyone can justify

Situation: Years of ad-hoc vendor access had left standing accounts with broad privilege and no review cycle.
What Gryffin does: Identity governance rollout with entitlement review, privileged access vaulting for third-party accounts, time-bound access, and joiner-mover-leaver automation.
Outcome: Standing third-party privilege removed, with every remaining access grant owned, expiring and reviewed.

Attack it properly, or find out the hard way.

A penetration test is only worth what its findings are worth. Automated scanning tells you which software versions are old; it does not tell you that a low-privilege user can read another customer's records by changing one identifier. Gryffin's testing combines tooling for coverage with manual, business-logic-aware testing for the findings that actually matter - then reports them in a form your engineers can act on the same week.

Services Description

What the engagement covers.

External infrastructure testing

Internet-facing assets, exposed services, misconfiguration, weak transport security and credential exposure - assessed the way an unauthenticated attacker would approach them.

Internal network testing

Assumed-breach testing from inside the network: privilege escalation, lateral movement, Active Directory attack paths, credential harvesting and access to crown-jewel systems.

Web application testing

Manual testing against the OWASP ASVS covering authorisation, session handling, injection, business-logic abuse and multi-tenant isolation, on top of automated coverage.

Mobile application testing

iOS and Android assessment across client-side storage, transport security, platform misuse, anti-tampering, and the backend APIs the app depends on, aligned to OWASP MASVS.

API testing

REST, GraphQL and service-to-service interfaces assessed against the OWASP API Top 10 - broken object-level authorisation, excessive data exposure, rate-limit bypass, token and key handling.

Cloud configuration review

Authenticated review of cloud accounts covering identity policy, network exposure, storage permissions, logging and key management.

What you receive

Executive summary written for a non-technical reader, with an overall risk position
Technical findings with reproduction steps, evidence and affected components
Risk rating by exploitability and business impact, not scanner severity alone
Specific, implementable remediation guidance per finding
Remediation walkthrough session with your engineering team
Free retest of remediated findings and an updated clean report
Attestation letter suitable for customers, auditors and insurers

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Certified testers, recognised methodology

Testing follows PTES, OWASP ASVS, MASVS and the API Top 10, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, delivered by testers holding OSCP, CREST and equivalent credentials - so the report holds up in customer security reviews and regulatory scrutiny.

Manual depth where it counts

Roughly the majority of the findings we consider high severity come from manual testing of authorisation and business logic. Those are the flaws no scanner reports and no attacker ignores.

Retest included, not sold separately

Remediation verification is part of the engagement. You get an updated report showing findings closed, which is usually what the customer or auditor actually asked for.

Production-safe rules of engagement

Scope, timing, rate limits, prohibited actions and abort conditions are agreed and signed before testing begins, with a named contact reachable throughout.

Use Cases

Illustrative. Scenarios drawn from common engagement patterns.

An enterprise deal blocked on a security questionnaire

Situation: A software vendor's largest prospect required an independent penetration test report dated within twelve months before contract.
What Gryffin does: Scoped external and application test with an executive summary written for the buyer's security team, plus retest after remediation.
Outcome: Report accepted by the buyer, high-severity findings closed in under three weeks, deal signed.

A payments feature about to go live

Situation: A fintech was releasing a new money-movement flow with authorisation logic that had never been independently reviewed.
What Gryffin does: Targeted application and API testing focused on authorisation and business logic, supported by source code review of the transaction path.
Outcome: Two flaws found that would have allowed transaction manipulation, both remediated before release.

An annual test that keeps finding the same things

Situation: A group had tested annually for years and kept receiving near-identical reports, suggesting remediation was not reaching root cause.
What Gryffin does: Testing plus a root-cause review of recurring finding classes, feeding into secure development standards and pipeline scanning.
Outcome: Repeat finding categories dropped away over the following two cycles as the underlying practices changed.

Someone is watching at 3am. And they answer.

Attacks do not arrive during office hours; they arrive when nobody is looking. A managed SOC gives you continuous coverage without staffing three shifts - but only if the detection content is built for your environment and the escalation arrives with an investigation already attached. Gryffin builds the detection, runs the monitoring, and escalates with a recommendation rather than a raw alert.

Services Description

What the engagement covers.

Log source onboarding and normalisation

Identifying the telemetry that matters, onboarding it, and normalising it so correlation is possible across endpoint, identity, network, cloud and application sources.

Detection engineering

Detection content written and tuned for your environment and industry, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, with coverage gaps documented rather than glossed over.

24x7 monitoring and triage

Continuous analyst coverage with alert triage, enrichment and investigation before anything reaches you.

Escalation and response support

Agreed escalation paths, severity definitions and response-time commitments, with pre-authorised containment actions where you want them.

Threat hunting

Scheduled hypothesis-driven hunts looking for what the detections would have missed, feeding new content back into the platform.

Reporting and coverage review

Monthly operational reporting and quarterly coverage review against ATT&CK, with a roadmap for closing remaining gaps.

What you receive

Onboarding plan and log source inventory
Detection content library mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
Documented escalation matrix, severity definitions and response SLAs
24x7 monitoring with named analyst escalation contacts
Monthly operational report and quarterly coverage review
Incident reports with timeline, impact and recommended control changes

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Detection built for you, not shipped as defaults

Default SIEM content produces volume, not value. Our engineers build and tune detections against your log sources and business processes, and we measure the true-positive rate rather than the alert count.

Coverage you can see

Detection coverage is mapped against MITRE ATT&CK, so you know which techniques you would catch, which you would miss, and what closing each gap costs. Nobody has to take the coverage claim on trust.

Escalations that arrive with an answer

An alert reaches you triaged, enriched and with a recommended action. Where you have pre-authorised containment, the action has already been taken and you are told what and why.

Bring your own platform, or ours

We operate on Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, Elastic and others. If you have already invested in a platform, the engagement starts by making it work rather than replacing it.

Use Cases

Illustrative. Scenarios drawn from common engagement patterns.

A SIEM nobody reads any more

Situation: A retailer's platform generated thousands of daily alerts against a two-person team, so alerts went unreviewed.
What Gryffin does: Log source review, detection content rebuilt against ATT&CK, consolidation and suppression tuning, transition to 24x7 monitored service.
Outcome: Alert volume cut by an order of magnitude with a true-positive rate high enough that alerts get worked again.

No out-of-hours coverage at all

Situation: A manufacturer discovered an overnight ransomware detonation when the first shift arrived.
What Gryffin does: 24x7 monitoring with automated containment for encryption behaviour, plus a retained response capability and tested recovery runbooks.
Outcome: A later attempt was detected and contained within minutes, with no production impact.

A security team spending its time on triage

Situation: An internal team of skilled engineers was consumed by first-line alert triage and had no time for improvement work.
What Gryffin does: Tier 1 and Tier 2 triage moved to the managed service, with the internal team retained for escalation and engineering.
Outcome: Internal capacity returned to detection engineering and hardening, with response times improving at the same time.

We do not just design it. We build it.

This is the hands-on delivery arm that sits underneath every technical pillar. Phased deployment, integration with what you already run, change management and knowledge transfer - the difference between an architecture document and a control that is actually enforcing something in production.

Services Description

7 services within this pillar.

Network & Switching Security Implementation

Deployment and hardening of switch-, routing- and network-layer controls - segmentation, port security, management-plane protection and secure configuration baselines across the estate.

Perimeter & Endpoint Security Deployment

Rollout of firewalls, gateways, EDR and endpoint controls with policy migration, phased cutover and rollback planning so production is never the test bed.

Cloud Security Implementation

Building the cloud controls into live accounts - landing-zone guardrails, CSPM, CASB, cloud-native firewalls, logging and identity - rather than advising on them from a distance.

Application & API Security Implementation

Deployment of WAF, API gateway protection, secrets management and secure coding controls into running application environments and their pipelines.

Open-Source & Toolchain Hardening

Securing the open-source components, dependencies and build toolchains your stack depends on - provenance, version governance, vulnerability triage and hardened configuration.

IoT & OT Security Implementation

Device profiling, network segmentation, secure provisioning and monitoring for connected-device and industrial environments, implemented without interrupting the operational process.

Migration, Cutover & Knowledge Transfer

Structured migration from legacy platforms with parallel running, documented runbooks and handover training so your team can operate what we leave behind.

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Certified engineers across the platforms we deploy

Delivery is done by engineers holding current vendor certifications on the products being implemented, not by generalists reading documentation on your time.

Phased cutover with a rollback at every stage

Production is never the test bed. Each phase has entry criteria, a validation step and a documented rollback, so a problem at 3am has a known answer.

Integration with what you already run

New controls are integrated with existing identity, logging, ITSM and monitoring rather than installed alongside them. A control that nobody can see in the tooling they already use does not get operated.

Handover that actually transfers knowledge

Every deployment ends with documented runbooks, configuration-as-built records and hands-on training for your team. You are not structurally dependent on us afterwards - and if you want us to keep running it, that is a choice rather than a trap.

Use Cases

Illustrative. Scenarios drawn from common engagement patterns.

A security platform bought eighteen months ago and still not live

Situation: A licensed EDR and SIEM stack had stalled at partial deployment after the internal project owner left.
What Gryffin does: Deployment recovery: current-state audit, remediation of partial configuration, staged rollout to full estate coverage, integration with ITSM, and operational handover.
Outcome: Full coverage reached in eleven weeks, with licence spend finally producing detection.

Firewall estate at end of support with no migration plan

Situation: Ageing firewalls across several sites were past end-of-support with an inherited rulebase nobody fully understood.
What Gryffin does: Rulebase analysis against live traffic, migration design, per-site phased cutover with parallel running, and policy consolidation during migration.
Outcome: Migration completed without a service-affecting outage, with the rule count reduced substantially and every remaining rule documented and owned.

A production line that cannot be taken down for security work

Situation: An industrial site needed segmentation and monitoring across OT, with zero tolerance for process interruption.
What Gryffin does: Passive device discovery and profiling, out-of-band monitoring deployment, segmentation designed around process zones, and change windows aligned to planned maintenance.
Outcome: Full OT visibility and segmentation achieved with no unplanned downtime.

Access to an application, never to the network.

A VPN authenticates once and then grants network reach. Zero Trust grants access to a named application, re-evaluated on every request against who the user is and what state their device is in - so a stolen credential opens one door instead of the building. The technology is the easy part; Gryffin's work is delivering it in stages your users accept and your operations team can support.

Services Description

What the engagement covers.

Access architecture and policy design

Application inventory, access policy by role and risk, device posture requirements, and the trust evaluation model applied to each request.

Identity foundation

Directory hygiene, group and role structure, conditional access design and phishing-resistant authentication - the prerequisites without which Zero Trust cannot be enforced.

Phased migration from VPN

Migration sequenced by application and user group, with VPN and ZTNA running in parallel and a rollback path open at every stage.

Device posture and compliance

Posture signals from endpoint management and EDR fed into access decisions, so an unpatched or unmanaged device gets a different answer.

Third-party and contractor access

Time-bound, application-scoped access for external parties, replacing standing accounts with broad network reach.

Decommissioning and validation

Retirement of legacy remote access once traffic has moved, with testing to confirm the old paths are genuinely closed.

What you receive

Application inventory with access policy per application
Zero Trust reference architecture and device posture standard
Phased migration plan with per-wave entry and rollback criteria
Conditional access and MFA rollout plan
Third-party access model with expiry and review
Post-migration validation report and legacy decommissioning record

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Adoption is the hard part, and we plan for it

ZTNA programmes stall on user resistance, not technology. We sequence by application and user group, communicate ahead of each wave, and keep the old path available until the new one is proven.

Identity treated as the foundation

Zero Trust enforced on a directory full of stale accounts and over-broad groups is theatre. Identity hygiene and governance come first in every engagement we run.

Vendor-independent design

We design to the requirement and deploy on Zscaler, Netskope, Cloudflare, Prisma Access or the platform you already own. The architecture does not change because the logo does.

Rollback at every stage

Each migration wave has documented entry criteria, validation steps and a rollback. Remote access is not a system where you find out at 9am on Monday.

Use Cases

Illustrative. Scenarios drawn from common engagement patterns.

VPN unable to carry a hybrid workforce

Situation: Concentrator capacity, split-tunnel exceptions and broad internal access made remote access both slow and dangerous.
What Gryffin does: ZTNA design with per-application policy, device posture enforcement, phased migration by department, and legacy decommissioning.
Outcome: Full remote access with no network-level trust, and leavers losing access the moment identity is disabled.

Contractors with standing network access

Situation: Years of ad-hoc third-party access had left accounts with broad privilege and no expiry.
What Gryffin does: Application-scoped, time-bound access for external parties with sponsor-based approval and automatic expiry.
Outcome: Standing third-party network access eliminated, with every grant owned and expiring.

Acquisition requiring access without network integration

Situation: An acquired entity needed access to group applications, but merging the networks would have taken a year and inherited the acquisition's risk.
What Gryffin does: ZTNA-based application access for the acquired workforce, avoiding network-level integration entirely.
Outcome: Day-one access to the applications that mattered, with no shared network fate between the two estates.

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