JLG Industries, part of Oshkosh Corporation, has been building equipment since 1917 - long enough to know that legacy machinery and modern connectivity create a sprawling attack surface. The company designs and manufactures vehicles and platforms across defense, fire and emergency, access, refuse, and concrete verticals. Its current technical focus spans autonomy, artificial intelligence, connectivity, and electrification - each domain introducing new threat vectors into industrial control systems, fleet telemetry, and remote equipment management.
The threat model here is concrete: military vehicles and aerial work platforms generate operational data, communicate with cloud backends, and increasingly rely on software-defined control. Securing these systems means working across OT/IT convergence, hardening embedded firmware, managing supply chain risk for components sourced globally, and building authentication and encryption layers for connected fleets. The company operates worldwide, which means security architecture must account for varied regulatory environments and regional infrastructure constraints.
JLG's security work is grounded in industrial-scale reliability - the company's culture signals center on equipment that functions under real-world stress, in communities where failure has immediate physical consequences. Teams working on autonomy, AI, and electrification need to treat cybersecurity as a systems engineering problem, not a bolt-on. This is infrastructure security where the payload isn't data - it's heavy machinery operating at height, on roads, and in conflict zones.
