Introduction

This Patch Cadence, Asset Visibility, and OT Governance August 2025 Cyber Briefing consolidates multiple security items from mid August 2025 into a single analysis focused on patching, vulnerabilities, asset inventory, governance, OT and IT exposure, ransomware driven data exfiltration, threat intelligence, enforcement trends, ghost tapping retail fraud, Zeppelin enforcement activity, ERMAC evolution, and the madeYouReset HTTP 2 weakness. The briefing presents core facts and a detailed analysis to support informed risk assessment and strategic planning.

Introduction

"Little Things, Big Breaches Asset-Centric Security for Manufacturing" examines how small, often-overlooked details in manufacturing environments compound into major cyber risk. This rewrite synthesizes Manufacturing.net’s Security Breach podcast episode (published August 21, 2025) featuring Jesper Sønderby Andersen, Global Head of Customer Success at Secomea, with host Jeff Reinke. It centers on practical, asset-focused approaches to security across IT and OT, and emphasizes the essential keywords: manufacturing, assets, governance, it-ot, remote-access, segmentation, crown-jewels, asset-inventory, vendor-risk, ai, supply-chain, resilience, incident-response, visibility, monitoring, cross-functional, continuity, trust.