How long could youkeep shipping?
When one major UK manufacturer's systems went down, production stopped for around five weeks and more than 5,000 other UK businesses felt it. Most of them were never attacked. Answer 15 plain-English questions and find out where your own operation stands.
- Takes about 10 minutes
- No jargon
- Instant score
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It wasn't the attack. It was the knock-on.
For many manufacturers, what changed the conversation was seeing how quickly one stopped line became missed deliveries, idle shifts and difficult calls with customers, for businesses that had done nothing wrong.
How long production stopped at a major UK manufacturer after a cyber attack.
Other UK businesses affected, most of them never attacked themselves.
Roughly the share of manufacturers with an incident response process, according to Make UK's research.
The weak points are rarely dramatic. They're usually an old remote access link from a machine supplier, an old PC running a line, or backups nobody has tested. The scorecard checks those, and the wider things around them. Answers you can't give are a result too.
Three steps. Ten minutes.
No technical knowledge needed. Where you don't know the answer, that's a useful result in itself.
Answer 15 questions
Across five areas: remote access, older machines, backups, incident response and your wider supply chain. Pick the answer that's closest to the truth.
Get your score
See your overall score and how you do in each of the five areas, straight away.
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Where does your operation stand today?
Pick the answer closest to how things really are today, not how you'd like them to be. "I don't know" is a perfectly good answer, and a useful one.
01Remote access
Which suppliers and contractors can connect into our systems remotely?
How are supplier remote connections set up?
How do people log in when they connect remotely?
02Older machines and PCs
How well do we know which PCs and controllers run our production lines?
How is the network that production machines use set up?
If a key production PC failed or was compromised, how would we get it back?
03Backups and recovery
Where do our backups sit in relation to our main network?
When did we last test restoring from a backup?
If we lost everything, how would we decide what to bring back first?
04If it happened
What do we have in place for a cyber incident?
If email and phones were down, how would we reach staff, our IT provider, customers and suppliers?
When did we last rehearse what we'd do in an incident, even as a talk-through?
05Suppliers and the wider chain
How well do we know which suppliers and customers we depend on, and who depends on us?
For the parts that would stop a line, what's our position?
Do we know whether our insurance covers loss of income from an IT outage, ours or a supplier's?
Your resilience scorecard.
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