Milestone for Information Security: TISAX Surpasses 20,000 Locations

A Detailed Look at TISAX’s Widespread Adoption and Its Influence on Security Standards in the Automotive Industry

In December 2025, for the first time, over 20,000 locations worldwide held a valid TISAX label. This underscores the global recognition and adoption of TISAX as a benchmark for robust information security, reflecting the industry’s ongoing commitment to safeguarding sensitive data and strengthening supply chain resilience.

TISAX is a standardized mechanism for assessing and exchanging information on the cyber security posture of a company within the automotive and related industries. Developed with constant input from both manufacturers and suppliers, TISAX enables organizations to demonstrate compliance with rigorous security requirements, particularly with regard to the handling of confidential and personal data and protection against cyber threats. Assessments are performed in a professional and consistent manner by experienced auditors from approved, leading audit providers, ensuring a high and comparable level of quality across all assessments. At the same time, the standardized approach makes TISAX cost‑effective by avoiding multiple individual customer or supplier audits, allowing assessment results to be reused across business relationships. Maintained by ENX as an independent, non‑profit organization, TISAX has expanded well beyond its German origins and has become a cornerstone of information and cybersecurity practices for automotive companies worldwide.

Over the past decade, TISAX has evolved into a truly international standard. Today, it is not only utilized by major automotive manufacturers, but also by a diverse array of suppliers, service providers, and technology companies that support the automotive value chain. This broad adoption has created a network of trust that transcends borders, allowing secure collaboration between partners worldwide.

Regional Distribution of TISAX Participants

TISAX continues to demonstrate a strong and growing global footprint. Recent analyses published via our LinkedIn channel, including regional heatmaps and country rankings, illustrate how TISAX‑assessed locations are distributed across key automotive and industrial regions worldwide.

The map illustrates the global distribution of assessed TISAX locations. Top 10 Countries by number: Germany, China, the United States of America, Czechia, India, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Poland and Brazil.

Shown together on a global map, this ranking highlights that TISAX adoption is concentrated in regions that play a central role in international automotive value creation. The distribution spans Europe, Asia and the Americas, combining established OEM and engineering hubs with major manufacturing and service locations. This geographic spread indicates that TISAX assessments are applied where cross‑border collaboration, complex supply chains and shared information‑security expectations are operationally most relevant.

Europe: a mature and deeply integrated landscape

Our Europe heatmap shows the geographical distribution of more than 10,000 TISAX‑assessed locations across the continent. The highest concentrations of TISAX labels can be found in Austria, Czechia, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The visual density of assessed locations illustrates that TISAX is not limited to a small number of national hubs. Instead, it is broadly embedded across Central, Western, Southern and parts of Eastern Europe. This pattern reflects Europe’s highly interconnected automotive ecosystem, where OEMs, Tier‑1 and Tier‑2 suppliers, engineering service providers and specialized technology companies collaborate across borders and rely on a common, trusted assessment framework.

East Asia: concentration in major industrial hubs, broad regional reach

The East Asia heatmap shows a clear concentration of TISAX‑assessed locations along China’s eastern industrial corridors, complemented by notable clusters in Japan and South Korea. Beyond these high‑density areas, additional assessed locations are visible across the wider region.

The observed pattern demonstrates not only the significant depth of TISAX adoption in East Asia’s primary manufacturing and engineering centres, such as China’s eastern industrial corridors, Japan, and South Korea, but also its extensive reach across the broader region. These high-density clusters indicate that TISAX is firmly embedded within the core of East Asia’s automotive supply networks, supporting secure collaboration between OEMs, Tier‑1 and Tier‑2 suppliers, as well as technology and engineering service providers.

Beyond the major hubs, the presence of additional assessed locations highlights the standard’s penetration into secondary and emerging industrial zones, reflecting the dynamic nature of East Asia’s automotive sector and the increasing importance of information security throughout complex supply chains. This widespread adoption enables companies to meet stringent information security requirements across national borders, facilitating seamless integration within global automotive value creation.

Furthermore, China’s status as the second‑largest TISAX country worldwide underscores its pivotal role in international automotive manufacturing and supply. The country’s rapid industrial growth, coupled with its leadership in automotive innovation and production, has driven widespread implementation of TISAX assessments. This not only ensures robust data protection and trust among supply chain partners but also positions China as a benchmark for information security standards in the region.

In summary, the distribution of TISAX‑assessed locations across East Asia reflects both a mature, concentrated adoption in established hubs and a growing regional expansion, signifying the region’s commitment to maintaining secure, collaborative, and resilient supply chains in a highly interconnected global automotive landscape.

North America: fast growth and wide geographic spread

The North America heatmap shows that more than 2,000 sites have been assessed, underlining the rapid growth of TISAX in this region. Assessed locations are widely distributed across the United States, with visible concentrations in established industrial and technology regions, as well as additional clusters in Canada and Mexico.

The geographic spread indicates that TISAX adoption in North America has moved beyond isolated early adopters. Instead, it is increasingly applied across diverse automotive, engineering and digital ecosystems, supporting consistent information security expectations throughout cross‑border supply chains.

Notably, the highest concentrations of assessed locations are visible in the Michigan and Great Lakes region, which remains the heartland of North American automotive manufacturing. This area encompasses Detroit and its surrounding industrial corridor, home to many OEMs, Tier‑1 suppliers, and engineering firms driving innovation in the sector.

Additionally, there is marked growth in the south‑eastern industry belt, stretching from Tennessee and Georgia through Alabama and the Carolinas. These states, traditionally strong in automotive and advanced manufacturing, are seeing expanding TISAX adoption as international companies invest in new plants and technology hubs.

Furthermore, California’s technology centre—especially the Silicon Valley area—has emerged as an important cluster for TISAX‑assessed sites, reflecting the increasing convergence between automotive, IT, and high‑tech industries. As leading technology firms and mobility innovators collaborate with automotive manufacturers, TISAX is becoming integral to securing complex data flows and collaborative development environments. Such regional clusters highlight how TISAX is becoming a standard for information security across both legacy manufacturing centres and emerging industrial zones, reinforcing the resilience and trustworthiness of supply chains that span the continent.

Mexico also plays a significant role in North America's TISAX adoption. The country is among the global top 10 for the number of assessed locations, reflecting its importance as a major manufacturing and service hub within the international automotive value chain. TISAX assessments in Mexico are not limited to one region but are distributed across its principal industrial centres, supporting secure collaboration between local suppliers, global OEMs, and engineering firms. As Mexico continues to attract international investment and expand its automotive and technology sectors, the adoption of TISAX strengthens information security across supply chains that link North America, Europe and beyond.

India: a top‑tier TISAX country with nationwide distribution

The India heatmap highlights the geographical distribution of TISAX‑assessed locations across the country and confirms that India is the fifth largest TISAX country worldwide.

Rather than being concentrated in a single metropolitan area, assessed locations are distributed across multiple industrial and technology centres. This reflects India’s role as a major hub for globally active engineering, IT and service organizations supporting international automotive programs, and explains its prominent position within the global Top‑10 ranking.

Overall picture

Taken together, the Top 10 country ranking and the regional heatmaps published on our LinkedIn channels show that TISAX is firmly established in core automotive regions while continuing to expand globally. High participant density in Europe, rapid growth in North America, and strong adoption in Asia underline the role of TISAX as a globally applied framework that supports consistent information security assessments across borders.

This regional distribution reflects the realities of international automotive value chains and reinforces TISAX’s role as a common reference point for trusted information security assessments worldwide. By enabling a shared understanding of information security maturity across organizational and national boundaries, TISAX supports reliable collaboration within highly interconnected ecosystems.

The widespread adoption of TISAX has not only strengthened regulatory compliance and trust among industry partners, but also contributes to the resilience of production‑critical supply chains. By reducing information security risks at key nodes of global value chains, TISAX helps mitigate disruptions caused by cyber incidents and data breaches. This supports stable production, protects intellectual property and personal data, and enables automotive companies to maintain delivery capability and operational continuity in an increasingly complex and threat‑exposed environment.

Join the TISAX ecosystem

The TISAX ecosystem is open to a broad range of stakeholders worldwide. While rooted in the automotive industry, TISAX is increasingly used by organizations from related and adjacent industries, as well as by globally operating companies across all regions. Organizations interested in participating—whether as assessed companies, information‑accessing participants, or ecosystem partners—are invited to reach out to learn how TISAX can support secure and trusted collaboration within their value chains.

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