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Social Engineering Defense for Manufacturers

In manufacturing, your people are the most targeted entry point and your most valuable line of defense. A single vishing call to a helpdesk agent, a phishing email to a procurement manager, or a pretexting attempt on the plant floor can halt production, expose trade secrets, and compromise your entire supply chain. Doppel detects and eliminates social engineering threats before they reach your employees, partners, and operations.

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By the numbers

Social engineering in manufacturing

Manufacturing is the most targeted industry for cyberattacks, four years running. Attackers exploit trusted vendor relationships, operational dependencies, and workforce scale to cause mass disruption and extract maximum value.

19.2%
vishing vulnerability rate in manufacturing and engineering, the highest of any industry.
26%
of all cyberattacks globally targeted the manufacturing sector in 2024, the most attacked industry for the fourth consecutive year.
20%
of manufacturing breaches in 2024 were espionage-motivated, up from just 3% the year prior.
$4.89M
average cost of a business email compromise attack, one of the most common entry points into manufacturing environments.
Where Manufacturing Risk Starts

Modern manufacturers fraud is multi-channel, fast-moving, and built to scale.

Modern attacks on manufacturers are engineered to exploit workforce scale, vendor trust, and the high cost of operational downtime. The human element is the most consistent point of entry.

Helpdesk and Contact Center Vulnerability

Manufacturing and engineering teams have the highest vishing vulnerability rate of any industry. A single call to an IT helpdesk or plant floor contact can hand attackers the access they need. Building resilience through simulation and targeted training is the most direct way to close this gap.

Executive and Vendor Impersonation

AI-generated messages, deepfakes, and spoofed identities impersonate executives, procurement teams, and trusted suppliers to authorize fraudulent transfers and redirect payments.

Intellectual Property and Data Exposure

Leaked proprietary designs, trade secrets, and process documentation on dark web forums expose competitive advantage and attract nation-state and espionage-motivated actors.

Business Email Compromise and Phishing

Lookalike domains, fake vendor portals, and targeted phishing campaigns compromise employee credentials, enabling account takeover and unauthorized access to operational systems.

Supply Chain and Third-Party Fraud

Fake supplier communications, counterfeit procurement portals, and impersonation of logistics partners introduce risk at every point in a complex vendor ecosystem.

Legacy Security Tools and Training

Generic awareness training and siloed security tools don't reflect the operational realities or social engineering threats specific to manufacturing environments. Workers on the plant floor, in procurement, and across IT and OT functions need training built around the attacks they actually face.
How it works

Built for Modern Manufacturing Operations

Most manufacturers rely on fragmented tools that address only part of the threat, flooding security teams with noise and leaving critical blind spots across IT, OT, and vendor environments. Legacy tooling only defends against isolated vectors, leaving analysts to manually stitch together defenses across channels.
Doppel exposes and eliminates threats before they can scale. By unifying detection, correlation, and disruption with simulation, red teaming, and training, Doppel protects your operations, employees, and supply chain against the social engineering attacks that technical controls alone can't stop.

Helpdesk Resilience and Contact Center

Training Build helpdesk and IT support resilience through hyper-realistic vishing and smishing simulations targeting plant floor, procurement, and IT functions, with training built around real manufacturing attack patterns.

Red Teaming and Insider Risk

Uncover insider risk and social engineering exposure through red teaming that targets the functions attackers exploit most in manufacturing environments.

Employee Readiness and Compliance and Audit-Readiness

Equip employees across IT, OT, procurement, and plant operations to recognize and respond to modern, AI-driven social engineering. Build the behavioral evidence needed for NIST CSF, IEC 62443, CMMC, and ITAR audits.

Vendor and Executive Impersonation Detection

Detect and take down fraudulent vendor communications, lookalike procurement portals, and executive impersonation before funds are transferred or access is granted.

Cross-Channel Brand and Supply Chain Monitoring

Monitor brand abuse and supplier impersonation across email, social media, messaging platforms, and dark web forums targeting your organization and vendor network.

Credential and IP Exposure Identification

Identify exposed employee credentials, proprietary process documentation, and trade secrets before attackers can weaponize them.

Automated Takedown of Malicious Assets

Automate takedowns of fake supplier portals, phishing sites, and fraudulent accounts before they reach employees or partners.

Campaign-Level Threat Visibility

Centralize campaign-level threat visibility across channels into a single view of coordinated attack activity targeting your brand, vendors, and operations.

Actionable Intelligence and Remediation

Move beyond alerts to intelligence, understanding how attacks operate across your vendor ecosystem and gaining clear remediation guidance.
Impact

Protect Operations. Defend Your People. Stay Ahead of AI-Driven Threats.

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Build a Resilient, Social Engineering-Ready Workforce

  • Reduce vishing, smishing, and pretexting risk across helpdesk, procurement, and plant floor functions through realistic simulation.
  • Equip employees with manufacturing-specific training built around real attacker tactics, not generic security awareness content.
  • Uncover insider risk and measure human vulnerability across IT, OT, and operational teams.
  • Build compliance-ready evidence of human risk reduction for NIST CSF, IEC 62443, CMMC, and ITAR requirements.

Prevent Operational Disruption and Financial Loss

  • Stop vendor impersonation and BEC before funds are transferred or production systems are compromised.
  • Reduce exposure to phishing, supply chain fraud, and credential harvesting across your vendor ecosystem.
  • Protect proprietary designs, trade secrets, and process documentation from being weaponized or leaked.
  • Prevent account takeover attacks originating in the helpdesk or IT support function.

Improve Operational Efficiency and Business Protection

  • Reduce security team fatigue and eliminate fragmented workflows across IT, OT, legal, and procurement.
  • Protect operational continuity, preserve supply chain trust, and safeguard revenue.
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Doppel Platform

Connected intelligence delivers comprehensive protection

Safeguard your brand, leaders, and business from social engineering attacks with the most comprehensive social engineering defense platform.

Brand Protection

Protect your brand, preserve trust

Protect your digital brand by continuously detecting and disrupting impersonation and fraudulent activity across digital channels through unified intelligence and real-time monitoring, stopping threats before they escalate.

Brand Protection
Executive Protection

Defend leadership, protect the business

Protect high-risk leaders from targeted social engineering, doxxing, impersonation, and deepfake attacks by continuously monitoring personal data exposure and threat activity across open and dark channels. Rapid mitigation and risk-based guidance reduce executive attack surface and response time.

Executive Protection
Simulation

Retire the phishing test, launch the simulation

Doppel Simulation delivers measurable business impact through realistic simulations and awareness training. Every scenario is designed to reveal real vulnerabilities, build response readiness, and feed directly into your defense strategy, turning training into tangible risk reduction.

Simulation
Security Awareness Training

Train your teams. Build resilience.

Doppel Security Awareness Training strengthens employee defenses against the latest attacker tactics with tailored, deepfake-enabled, threat-informed training and personalized coaching. Every training is relevant, engaging, and designed to build resilience against modern security threats.

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Customer Success

Real results from real customers

ARK Invest faced a surge of sophisticated, multi-channel impersonation attacks that overwhelmed manual defenses and strained internal teams. By shifting to automated, AI-driven detection and takedowns, they reduced response times from weeks to minutes—significantly cutting scam volume and restoring trust across their investor community.

Since we switched to Doppel, there are situations where we can get scams identified and removed within minutes, if not maybe a day or two.
Matthew StaudtBrand Marketing Manager, ARK Investment
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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Why are manufacturing employees among the most vulnerable to social engineering?

Manufacturing and engineering organizations have the highest vishing vulnerability rate of any industry at 19.2%. Large, distributed workforces, high volumes of external vendor communications, and variable cybersecurity awareness across IT, OT, and plant floor functions create conditions attackers actively exploit. Generic training programs don't address the specific pretexting, vishing, and impersonation tactics used against manufacturing teams. See Helpdesk Resilience and Security.

How does Doppel help manufacturers build a more resilient workforce?

Doppel Simulation delivers hyper-realistic vishing, smishing, and phishing scenarios built around real manufacturing attack patterns, testing helpdesk agents, procurement staff, and plant floor employees against the tactics attackers actually use. Security Awareness Training reinforces these simulations with content tailored to manufacturing-specific protocols, vendor communication workflows, and sector threats. Together they reduce human risk and generate the behavioral evidence needed for compliance audits. See Breach Prevention and Resilience.

What types of threats does Doppel protect manufacturers against?

Doppel detects and removes threats targeting manufacturing organizations including executive and vendor impersonation, fake procurement portals, BEC campaigns, vishing attacks on IT and helpdesk teams, supply chain fraud, and credential or IP exposure on dark web forums. Doppel also strengthens internal defenses through targeted simulations and training tailored to manufacturing-specific attack patterns. Explore all use cases.

We already have OT and IT security tools; where does Doppel fit?

OT and IT security tools protect your operational environment. Doppel protects your brand and people from threats that originate outside it, including fake vendor portals, executive impersonation campaigns, and social engineering attacks that bypass technical controls by targeting human behavior. Teams no longer have to manually stitch together threats across email, domains, social, messaging, and voice channels. See Brand and Impersonation Protection.

How does Doppel address supply chain and vendor ecosystem risk?

Doppel monitors for fraudulent vendor communications, fake procurement portals, and supplier impersonation across digital channels. By identifying threats targeting your vendor ecosystem early, Doppel helps prevent supply chain compromises before they disrupt operations or result in unauthorized payments. See Fraud and Scam Prevention.

What's the impact of not proactively addressing external threats?

Unmanaged external threats lead to operational disruption, fraudulent payments, intellectual property theft, and supply chain compromise. Over time, this increases breach costs, erodes partner and customer trust, and creates regulatory and reputational risk across a sector where downtime directly translates to revenue loss. See Campaign-Level Threat Visibility.

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