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When the line stops, every second is measured in millions.
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OUR WHY
Ares for Manufacturing
When the line stops, every second is measured in millions.
Modern manufacturing doesn't run on machinery. It runs on APIs — between MES and ERP, between PLCs and cloud telemetry pipelines, between supplier portals and shop-floor dashboards, between the connected products you ship and the back-ends that update them. Each one is an unguarded door, and adversaries have noticed. Manufacturing has been the most-attacked industry on the planet for years running, and the reason is structural: the convergence of IT and OT created an entirely new class of exposure that traditional appsec tooling was never designed to see. Your annual third-party pentest cannot keep pace with an environment that ships new endpoints every sprint. Your scanner returns CVEs when adversaries are exploiting business logic. Ares closes that gap — autonomously, continuously, and at the scale of your real environment.
The Threat Surface
The threat surface no one was hired to defend.
The attack surface inside a modern manufacturer is wider than any security org is staffed to cover. Industrial APIs are built for partner integrations, often without authentication parity to the rest of the stack. MES, PLM, and ERP integrations move production data, bills of materials, and trade secrets across trust boundaries every minute of every shift. Supplier and dealer portals carry deep entitlements behind shallow security review. The connected products you ship — vehicles, devices, equipment — depend on cloud back-ends and OTA update paths that adversaries map as a single, contiguous attack surface. Operator-facing mobile apps run on rugged tablets across the plant floor. Shop-floor telemetry ingests from thousands of sensors with little behavioral baselining behind it. No human team, internal or contracted, can test all of this on the cadence at which it changes. That is the gap Ares was built to close.
The Ares Platform
Autonomous offensive security, purpose-built for industrial scale.
Ares deploys a coordinated swarm of AI agents against your APIs, web applications, and mobile apps. Each agent is purpose-built — for reconnaissance, exploit synthesis, kill-chain execution, and validation — and they work together the way a real adversary would. Our API agents enumerate and test the endpoints behind your MES, PLM, ERP, and supplier integrations, including the shadow APIs nobody documented, with full coverage of the OWASP API Security Top 10 and chained attack scenarios that mirror real intrusion paths. Our web and mobile agents probe authentication flows, session handling, business logic, and authorization across dealer extranets, supplier portals, and the iOS and Android apps your operators actually use. For connected products, Ares tests the device, the cloud APIs, and the OTA path as one surface — because that is how an adversary sees it. And every test runs production-safely, with severity-tiered findings, operator attribution, and full evidentiary chains, so your team knows exactly what was exercised, by which agent, with what proof.
Outcomes that matter to manufacturing security leaders.
Ares is built to move the metrics that get reported to your board, not just the ones that fill a dashboard. It stops ransomware earlier in the kill chain by closing the API and web vulnerabilities adversaries now use to skip the phishing step entirely. It protects intellectual property by surfacing the authorization flaws in PLM and engineering systems that let one compromised credential walk out with a product roadmap. It de-risks your supplier and dealer ecosystem by testing the partner-facing surface continuously, not once a year in a forty-page PDF. It extends application security maturity beyond the systems you run to the products you ship. And it gives you audit-grade evidence of continuous offensive testing for CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-171, and IEC 62443 — replacing point-in-time snapshots with a defensible, always-on record. Ares was built by operators who have spent decades on the other side of this work, breaching connected vehicles, industrial APIs, and the IT/OT seam itself. That experience is encoded in every agent. When Ares tests your environment, it tests it the way the most patient, most resourced adversary would. The difference is that this time, the report comes to you.
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