Dana Incorporated has been building drivetrain systems, electrodynamic technologies, sealing solutions, and thermal-management products since 1904. The company designs and manufactures propulsion solutions across passenger vehicles, commercial trucks, off-highway equipment, and the aftermarket - operating nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities in more than 20 countries with over 25,000 employees. That's a sprawling, OT-heavy attack surface: industrial control systems on factory floors, global supply chain integrations, connected engineering environments, and the intellectual property behind core powertrain components.
The cybersecurity challenge here is not abstract. Dana is positioning itself at the forefront of sustainable transportation, which means more connected systems, more digital interfaces in propulsion technology, and more points where a breach could halt production lines or compromise proprietary designs. Threat models span from ransomware targeting manufacturing operations to supply-chain compromise across a multinational supplier network. Security teams operating at this scale deal with ICS/SCADA environments, ERP system hardening, endpoint defense across tens of thousands of assets, and the governance complexity of a company with presence in 20+ jurisdictions.
The work is concrete: protecting OT networks that drive physical processes, securing cloud and on-prem infrastructure supporting global engineering collaboration, managing vulnerabilities across a diverse technology stack that includes both legacy industrial systems and modern digital platforms. Dana's scope means security isn't a single domain - it's the intersection of manufacturing security, application security, data protection, and enterprise risk at industrial scale.
