The recent cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has exposed an uncomfortable truth: no company is too big, too well-protected, or too digitally advanced to be immune from disruption.
Despite its significant investment in IT resilience and data security, JLR’s operations were brought to a standstill — and with them, the production schedules of hundreds of suppliers across the UK and Europe.

When Digital Intrusion Becomes Industrial Disruption
The attack, believed to have originated from a coordinated criminal group, highlights the growing capability and reach of bad actors targeting manufacturing infrastructure. These incidents are not isolated; they ripple through entire supply networks. When a major OEM is compromised, supplier portals freeze, production data becomes inaccessible, and logistics systems stall. The result is not just downtime for one company, but widespread disruption across the entire industrial ecosystem. Even short interruptions can cause missed deliveries, idle production lines, and substantial financial loss for downstream partners. The lesson is clear: cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue — it is a fundamental part of operational continuity.

Building Real Resilience Across the Chain
At Wavemar Electronics, we constantly ask ourselves: are we truly resilient enough? It is easy to believe, “It will never happen to us,” but complacency is the greatest vulnerability. A single misplaced click, or something as ordinary as an employee plugging in a found flash drive, can create an entry point for a sophisticated breach. That is why we view resilience not merely as technology, but as culture.

We maintain secure communication routes that can operate independently of primary systems, store verified offline backups for rapid restoration, and enforce strict access controls so that only authorised personnel have system-level privileges.