Charles Swihart
Visonary & Founder
Charles has become a recognized authority in delivering IT support and solutions tailored for small to medium-sized businesses, particularly in the manufacturing, engineering, and construction sectors. His vision for Preactive IT Solutions has always been to provide enterprise-level IT services to businesses that typically lack the resources of larger corporations.
Manufacturing Cybersecurity Insights
As a technology advisor to manufacturing and industrial organizations for more than 25 years, I’ve seen cybersecurity evolve from an IT support function into a critical component of operational resilience. Today’s factories depend on tightly integrated IT and operational technology systems, meaning cyber incidents can halt production and disrupt supply chains. In this series, I examine how ransomware threats, OT/IT convergence, and cyber insurance requirements are reshaping manufacturing security architecture—and why segmentation, identity controls, and resilient recovery strategies are now essential to maintaining uptime.
