Introduction

The TransUnion breach via a third party Salesforce app exposed personal data for approximately 4.4 million customers. This incident raises urgent questions about breach prevention, privacy safeguards, identity theft risk, monitoring, fraud prevention, vendor risk and supply chain exposure for financial data environments. The following article presents a full rewrite and detailed analysis while preserving all reported facts, timeline entries and remediation actions.

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.