Five mid-market manufacturers within driving distance of our Chicago office have been publicly breached since 2021. Hoplon Infosec is the cyber team built for the next one in line , pre-breach hardening, post-breach recovery, and the compliance lift your primes are about to demand.
FEDERAL SIGNAL CORP / Oak Brook IL
FEB 2026 · 1.8TB data leak attributed to 0APT
MAUSER PACKAGING / Oak Brook IL
JUN 2024 · PII breach · 24-mo credit monitoring
BRUNSWICK / MERCURY MARINE / Fond du Lac WI
JUN 2023 · 9 days down · ~$85M impact
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED / Kenosha WI
MAR 2022 · Conti · employee SSNs leaked
SCHREIBER FOODS / Green Bay WI
OCT 2021 · $2.5M demand · dairy supply offline
Updated continuously from public disclosure feeds
We do not pitch on fear. We pitch on what already happened to your peers, in your zip codes, against the same plant systems and ERPs you are running. Every dossier below is publicly filed and ready to use as a reference call.
Fond du Lac, WI · Marine engines · 6,000+ EMP
Cyberattack June 2023. Nine days of operations paused at the Fond du Lac plant. CEO David Foulkes pegged the financial impact near $85M in SEC filings. MA AG breach notification filed December.
Green Bay, WI · Dairy · 8,000+ EMP
October 2021 ransomware. Roughly $2.5M demanded. Plants and distribution offline ~5 days; dairy supply chain disruption rippled statewide. Largest milk processor in Wisconsin.
Kenosha, WI · Tools & diag · ~12,000 EMP
March 2022 cyberattack claimed by the Conti gang. ~5.7GB exfiltrated. Employee PII SSNs, DOBs, employee IDs leaked. California AG notification on file.
Oak Brook, IL · Packaging · 11,000+ global EMP
June 2024 data breach. PII accessed. MA AG notification filed November 2024; 24-month credit monitoring offered to affected individuals. Active remediation and controls work in flight.
Oak Brook, IL · Industrial · ~2,500 EMP
February 2026 data breach. 1.8TB leak attributed to the 0APT group per BreachSense. Public-sector and utility customers running aggressive cyber DDQs in the aftermath.
We will pull every public disclosure, dark-web mention, exposed asset, and supplier-tier cyber clause tied to your company name. Free. Returned in 72 hours.
We are not a generalist MSP. Every Hoplon engineer has shipped at least one CMMC assessment, one OT segmentation project, and one ransomware recovery on a manufacturing floor. That is the bar.
110-control NIST 800-171 mapping, SSP and POAM build-out, evidence collection, and C3PAO pre-assessment dry runs. We have walked tier-2 and tier-3 shops through the rule since the Title 32 final draft.
Segmentation between corporate IT and the cell. Asset discovery on PLCs, HMIs, robots, CNCs. Passive monitoring that does not crash the line. We build to IEC 62443 and the customer cyber addenda your auto and aero buyers are now flowing down.
Boots-on-site within 12 hours across IL, IN, WI. Forensics, negotiation support, decryption, clean-room rebuild, regulator notifications. Pre-incident retainer puts our number on the wall before you need it.
Co-managed SIEM and EDR tuned to manufacturing workloads. Phishing, BEC, credential theft, and lateral movement caught on your IT side before they pivot onto the plant network. Built for the mid-sized shop with one IT lead and no security team.
Every vertical has a different audit pressure and a different downtime cost. Pick the one you live in we will quote the conversation back at you.
Tier-2 and tier-3 shops face DFARS flow-down audits from Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, Cummins. We deliver SSP + POAM ready for C3PAO review.
Premarket cyber guidance (Sep 2023) is now a hard gate. We deliver SBOMs, threat models, and the secure SDLC documentation hospital procurement actually reads.
F&B is the new ransomware hunting ground. Segmented OT, EDR, and a tested IR plan are now non-negotiable for renewal. We map controls to your carrier questionnaire 1:1.
GM BIQS, Ford Q1, Stellantis MMOG/LE each OEM wraps IATF in custom cyber language. We have responded to all three. 30-day turn on a properly scoped engagement.
Mauser was hit June 2024 in Oak Brook. The pattern is repeatable across packaging data and OT in the same blast radius. We help you split them.
One cyber program, mapped to NIST CSF, that satisfies AS9100, ISO 13485, IATF, and FDA customers from one binder. Built for shops with 50–500 employees.
Three regulatory waves crashing through manufacturing supply chains right now. If you are on the calendar past Q3 2026 without a plan, you are already late.
2024 · 2026
Rolling DoD prime audits of tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers. Loss of CMMC eligibility = loss of the contract. 12–18 months of remediation is typical.
SEP 2023 · ongoing
SBOM mandatory on every 510(k). Threat model, secure SDLC, and post-market vulnerability management required. Submissions are being kicked back.
2024 · 2027
GM BIQS, Ford Q1, Stellantis MMOG/LE, and the German TISAX standard now wrap IATF. Single-customer cyber failures trigger production-line chargebacks.
DEC 2027
Any connected product you sell into the EU needs SBOM, vulnerability disclosure, and five-year support commitment. The US Cyber Trust Mark mirrors the requirements.
We move at the speed of a plant, not a Big Four engagement. Most clients are running control improvements within 30 days of signing.
We pull every public disclosure, dark-web mention, exposed asset, and supplier-tier cyber clause tied to your company. Returned in 72 hours, no NDA needed.
On-site or video. We walk your IT lead and an Ops or Quality sponsor through the dossier, the frameworks pressing on your business, and a realistic 12-month roadmap.
Asset inventory, gap-to-target mapping (NIST 800-171, IEC 62443, or your customer addendum), and the IR-plan-on-a-page that closes the cyber-insurance renewal.
Co-managed SOC, quarterly board-ready reporting, audit-evidence pipeline, and your number on our wall for the day everything goes sideways.
We do not run a national one-call-fits-all model. We run three field offices because driving to your plant matters when the ERP is down.
We will walk in with your public-disclosure dossier and the three frameworks pressing on your business. You walk out with a one-page action plan whether or not you ever hire us.