How will farms and food producers protect themselves from the next cyberattack?

guest · Oct 27, 2021

How will farms and food producers protect themselves from the next cyberattack?
October 27, 2021
https://therecord.media/how-will-fa...protect-themselves-from-the-next-cyberattack/

Recent cyberattacks on the food and agriculture sector—including ransomware infections that shut down operations at JBS, one of the world’s largest meat suppliers, at the beginning of the summer and midwestern grain cooperatives this autumn—put a spotlight on risks to the systems that help feed people around the world.

One of attacks on grain cooperatives also hit a related precision data company, raising further concerns about how to protect the increasingly automated systems that are now key to many farm and food operations.
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The Record reached out to the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (or IT-ISAC), a threat intelligence sharing organization around since 2000, for help putting these new risks in context. IT-SAC operates a Special Interest Group focused on food and agriculture and its board includes four major companies from the sector.
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In an email interview, IT-ISAC Executive Director Scott Algeier discussed the scale of automation already in use by farms and food production facilities, threats those operations face, and how intelligence-sharing can help companies respond. This exchange has been lightly edited for length and clarity. [...]
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