Mohawk Industries is the world's largest flooring manufacturer - $10.8 billion in worldwide sales, approximately 40,500 employees, distribution across roughly 180 countries. That scale means a sprawling attack surface: global ERP systems, OT networks on factory floors, supply chain integrations spanning four continents, and an e-commerce layer serving both residential and commercial customers. The threat model isn't hypothetical. Industrial manufacturers are high-value targets for ransomware, IP theft, and supply chain compromise.
The company operates across multiple segments - Global Ceramic (the world's largest ceramic tile and natural stone manufacturer), Flooring North America, Flooring Rest of the World, and a Surfaces segment covering countertops, panels, and insulation. Each brings its own IT and OT footprint. Public since 1992, headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia, Mohawk runs manufacturing and distribution infrastructure at a scale where a single misconfigured service or unpatched SCADA system has real-world consequences.
For security practitioners, the draw is complexity: protecting a multinational manufacturing operation means dealing with converged IT/OT environments, securing third-party integrations across a massive supplier and distributor network, and defending enterprise systems that support design, logistics, and retail operations. The work is concrete - network segmentation on production lines, identity management across tens of thousands of employees, incident response across time zones and regulatory regimes. No glamour, just real engineering at industrial scale.
