The industrial landscape of the 21st century is defined by a paradox: the very mechanisms that maximized economic efficiency (Just-In-Time manufacturing and global specialisation) have simultaneously maximized systemic vulnerability.
We have transitioned from the monolithic “fortresses” of the early 20th century, epitomised by the Ford River Rouge Complex, to a hyper-distributed “Industrial Mesh.” While this shift drove down costs, it created a sprawling attack surface where a breach in a Tier 3 supplier can metastasize into a catastrophic failure for a global OEM.
The devastating 2025 cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, which incurred nearly £1.9 billion in losses and paralyzed global production for five weeks, serves as a grim validation of this structural weakness. It wasn’t just an IT failure; it was a collapse of the “Castle-and-Moat” security model.
Inside the Whitepaper
In The Fragility of Interdependence, Agilicus provides an analysis of the historical and technical evolution of supply chain risk. This report explores:
- The Butterfly Effect: How the 2025 Jaguar Land Rover crisis and the Colonial Pipeline attack demonstrate the failure of legacy VPNs and perimeter firewalls.
- Cyber-Physical Convergence: Analysis of threats that target human safety, including the German steel mill blast furnace destruction and the Triton malware incident.
- The Regulatory Vise: A breakdown of the SEC’s 2023/2024 cybersecurity rules, demanding rigorous oversight of third-party risks and rapid materiality disclosure.
- The Zero Trust Solution: A comprehensive blueprint for moving beyond the perimeter. Learn how Agilicus AnyX decouples access from the network, enforcing unified identity federation and fine-grained authorization to secure the mesh.
Read The Whitepaper
The network perimeter is dead. Identity is the new perimeter. This whitepaper offers a technical and operational roadmap for organisations to secure their industrial mesh, ensuring that the economic benefits of specialization do not come at the cost of existential risk.