Industry Solution

Bridge IT, OT, and product-cybersecurity policy without rewriting your whole programme

Manufacturers and automotive suppliers use Quick Policy to govern IEC 62443, ISO/SAE 21434, and UNECE R155/R156 obligations across plant, product, and supply-chain teams from one operating model.

4 sector standards mapped
4 policy families baselined
Live evidence, training, and audit-ready exports

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Mapped standards

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Policy families

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Evidence examples

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Manufacturing and Automotive quick answer

Manufacturers and automotive suppliers use Quick Policy to govern IEC 62443, ISO/SAE 21434, and UNECE R155/R156 obligations across plant, product, and supply-chain teams from one operating model. It cuts the manual evidence work that manufacturing and automotive compliance teams usually carry between audits, and gives leadership a defensible answer when a regulator, customer, or partner asks "show me".

Business categories served

Manufacturing & Logistics

What slows manufacturing and automotive compliance teams down today

These are the operational risks Quick Policy was built to neutralise for manufacturing and automotive organisations. Each one shows up in audit findings, in renewal slippages, or in customer-diligence questionnaires that delay revenue.

  • • OT/ICS cyber exposure on legacy plant equipment with patch windows measured in years
  • • Type-approval (UNECE R155/R156) deadlines that surprise product teams late in the cycle
  • • Supply-chain security obligations passed down by OEMs that don’t reach the actual sub-tier suppliers
  • • Separate IT-side and engineering-side policy programmes that disagree on incident severity

How Quick Policy works for manufacturing and automotive teams

Sector context is built into onboarding, drafting, review, training, and evidence — not stapled on after the fact. Adopt standards once and the platform keeps the rest of the operating model aligned.

  • • Baseline against ISO_21434, UNECE_R155_R156, IEC_62443, ISO_27001 from day one, with applicability rationale your auditor can follow.
  • • Start with the highest-impact policy families (Industrial cybersecurity (IT/OT segmentation, ICS access); Product cybersecurity lifecycle (CSMS, SUMS); Incident response and OEM notification) and expand coverage as ownership matures.
  • • Separate IT and OT responsibilities with one shared governance rule-set so the two programmes report into the same risk register.
  • • Evidence examples already mapped: Segmentation evidence and OT-network diagrams kept current with change requests; Vulnerability triage logs across IT, OT, and product asset classes.

Operational Risks

  • • OT/ICS cyber exposure on legacy plant equipment with patch windows measured in years
  • • Type-approval (UNECE R155/R156) deadlines that surprise product teams late in the cycle
  • • Supply-chain security obligations passed down by OEMs that don’t reach the actual sub-tier suppliers
  • • Separate IT-side and engineering-side policy programmes that disagree on incident severity

Policy Families

Industrial cybersecurity (IT/OT segmentation, ICS access)
Product cybersecurity lifecycle (CSMS, SUMS)
Incident response and OEM notification
Business continuity and supplier resilience

Control and Evidence Examples

  • • Segmentation evidence and OT-network diagrams kept current with change requests
  • • Vulnerability triage logs across IT, OT, and product asset classes
  • • Exercise / tabletop and recovery records mapped to RTO/RPO statements
  • • Supplier conformity declarations for type-approval and customer audits

Rollout Guidance

  • • Separate IT and OT responsibilities with one shared governance rule-set so the two programmes report into the same risk register.
  • • Track control drift with scheduled reassessments before each customer audit cycle, not after a finding lands.

Mapped standards and source traceability

These standards are part of the industry context Quick Policy uses to shape drafting and compliance guidance.

IEC_62443
IEC_62443

IEC 62443 — Industrial Automation + Control Systems Security

CRITICAL_SERVICE_AND_RESILIENCE • MANUFACTURING_INDUSTRIAL • UTILITIES

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How Quick Policy turns industry context into delivery workflows

Move from operating-model context into standards-aware drafting, review, training, and evidence work.

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Capture Core Profile

6-8 minutes
Unlocks drafting with a verified organisational baseline.

Admins complete adaptive onboarding to establish operating model, risk posture, and compliance objectives.

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Determine Applicable Standards

1-2 minutes
Prevents generic policies by grounding outputs in real obligations.

Standards applicability ranks obligations by industry, geography, services, and data profile.

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Generate and Harmonise Policy

3-8 minutes
Creates review-ready drafts with quality diagnostics and provenance.

Three-pass generation drafts, repairs contradictions, and validates coverage before reviewer handoff.

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Review and Approve

Team dependent
Maintains accountability and publication controls.

Approvers validate policy language, mappings, and obligations using structured workflow stages.

Browse standards

See every standard the platform maps, with scope and authority.

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Read case studies

How real customers reached audit-ready in weeks not quarters.

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Review the platform

See onboarding, drafting, training, and evidence end-to-end.

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Open the trust center

Procurement-ready security and assurance documentation.

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Ready to compress your manufacturing and automotive rollout from quarters to weeks?

Start a guided preview in your browser — no card, no sales call. You'll see the manufacturing and automotive baseline, draft your first policy, and export an audit-ready evidence pack inside the trial.

Manufacturing and Automotive FAQs

How quickly can a manufacturing and automotive team be audit-ready with Quick Policy?

Most manufacturing and automotive teams reach a defensible baseline within 4–8 weeks using the seeded ISO_21434 pack plus jurisdiction overlays. The platform tracks readiness against each in-scope standard so you can show leadership exactly what's done, what's in progress, and what's outstanding.

Which standards and regulations should manufacturing and automotive organisations prioritise?

This page maps the most common obligations — ISO_21434, UNECE_R155_R156, IEC_62443, ISO_27001 — and links each one through to policy families, evidence expectations, and the controls auditors check first. The applicability engine flags which apply to your specific operating model so you don't over-scope.

Will Quick Policy replace our existing GRC tooling?

Most customers run Quick Policy alongside their GRC or audit platform. We own the live, authored policy programme — drafting, approval, training, and evidence — and export audit-ready packs into whatever assurance tool the broader business already uses.

What does the rollout actually look like?

Day 1 onboarding captures your operating profile and recommends standards. Week 1 you have draft policies and a first-policy roadmap. Within the first month you have training assigned, evidence flowing, and a defensible answer to "where is our policy on X?" — without hiring extra heads.