Norway-based Norsk Hydro announced on Tuesday morning it was victim to a serious ransomware attack, which has forced the global aluminum producer to shut down or isolate several plants and send several more into manual mode, the company said on Tuesday morning.

Threatpost talked to Phil Neray, the VP of Industrial Cybersecurity at CyberX, about how manufacturing firms can avoid a similar cyberattack that Norsk Hydro has undergone.