Manufacturers make patching progress, but identity management still major weakness

Dive Insight: Black Kite paints a grim picture of cybersecurity at the 1,000 largest manufacturers.

Manufacturers aren’t moving quickly enough to fix the problems that will create tomorrow’s cyberattacks, Black Kite said.

Top 1,000 manufacturers’ improvements in patching are important, researchers wrote, but they only address “the doors attackers have always used.”

One of those groups, The Gentlemen, conducted roughly 12% of all the attacks that Black Kite has logged so far in 2026.

Black Kite warned in August that the midmarket was a disproportionate ransomware target because of its unique challenges.