24 hours to paralysis: 87% of automakers cannot survive a day of operational downtime
Two hours of downtime is all it takes to plunge nearly 1 in 5 automakers into an immediate crisis, while 87% cannot sustain an outage beyond 24 hours. With 78.5% of companies running unsegregated IT/OT networks and 5 in 9 of plant managers unprepared for ransomware, a single cyber incident now threatens rapid assembly line paralysis across the supply chain.
These findings originate from The Real Cost of Threats In The Automotive Industry, a new report published by GitProtect Lab – the research hub of GitProtect.io – providing research and data on modern DevOps data risks, SaaS platform resilience, recovery readiness, and human error.
Downtime Ticking Clock
The automotive industry has emerged as one of the most targeted sectors, according to GitProtect Lab’s 2026 DevOps Threats Unwrapped report. In an ecosystem where modern vehicles are essentially “computers on wheels” and smart factories are hyper-connected, operational resilience is only as...
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