QAD, Inc. builds integrated enterprise software for manufacturers and supply chains. Founded in 1979, the company now serves over 7,000 customer sites across more than 100 countries, with more than 1,700 employees. Its suite spans QAD Adaptive ERP, the Redzone Connected Workforce platform for frontline worker engagement, Champion AI for intelligent process execution, and dedicated Supply Chain Planning tools. The threat surface here is operational technology meeting enterprise IT: manufacturing environments running real-time production systems, workforce platforms handling sensitive personnel data, and AI models embedded in process-critical decisions.
The security challenge scales across industries - automotive, life sciences, food and beverage, high tech, industrial manufacturing, and consumer products - each carrying distinct regulatory and adversarial risk profiles. A 100+ country footprint means navigating fragmented compliance regimes and diverse attack vectors targeting both digital infrastructure and connected factory floors. Security teams operating in this context are defending ERP instances, securing AI inference pipelines, hardening integrations between workforce and planning systems, and managing access across globally distributed manufacturing sites.
QAD's products sit at the intersection of operational technology and cloud-native enterprise software. The Redzone platform connects frontline workers through mobile and IoT-adjacent interfaces. Champion AI introduces machine learning into business process automation. Supply Chain Planning tools manage data flows between suppliers, logistics, and production. Each surface introduces distinct security domains: identity and access management across OT/IT boundaries, data protection in transit between manufacturing sites and cloud backends, secure development lifecycle practices for AI-integrated applications, and monitoring for anomalous behavior in connected workforce and supply chain telemetry.
