📌 Situation
Smart Farming and the Food Industry: digital innovation under attack.
Agriculture 4.0 and the food industry are undergoing a technological revolution with the use of IoT, artificial intelligence, and automation to optimize production and logistics. However, increasing digitalization is raising vulnerabilities, making the sector a target for cybercriminals and hacker groups.
Cyberattacks on the agricultural and food sectors have risen in recent years, with ransomware, supply chain attacks, and production data manipulation on the rise.
📊 Increase in attacks on the agrifood sector
Cyberattacks in the agrifood sector are growing rapidly, with an increase in threats to the supply chain and agricultural management systems.
⚠️ Ransomware and attacks on food logistics on the rise
Hackers are targeting production plants and distribution companies, blocking the supply chain and causing significant financial damage.
🌱 Smart farming in the crosshairs
Precision farming uses IoT sensors, drones, and digital management systems, which can be compromised to alter harvests, cause waste, and falsify production data.
⚠️ Digital threats
Agriculture and food: new risks for a strategic sector.
Cyberattacks are targeting farms, food processing plants, and distribution chains, with devastating impacts on production and food safety.
🌾 Ransomware attacks on food producers and farms
Ransomware is blocking entire production lines, with multimillion-dollar ransom demands to restore digital systems.
🚜 Digital sabotage of agricultural machines and IoT systems
Modern farms use automated tractors, smart greenhouses, and drones for monitoring. Hackers can compromise these systems, altering harvests and reducing productivity.
🏴☠️ Data theft and industrial espionage
The theft of recipes, production processes, and supply chain data can lead to unfair competitive advantages or food counterfeiting.
🔗 Supply chain attacks in agrifood
Hackers can alter delivery data, block food transportation, and compromise product quality, putting supermarkets and consumers at risk.
🏬 Cyber disruptions in supermarkets and distribution
Attacks on payment systems and inventory management in supermarkets can cause service disruptions, product losses, and interruptions in the supply chain.
📜 Regulations
Agrifood and digital security: obligations and regulations.
European and national regulations impose strict security measures to protect data and ensure continuity in agrifood production.
🛡️ NIS2 – Protection of critical infrastructures
Agrifood companies are considered strategic sectors and must comply with the NIS2 Directive, which requires security measures for protecting production and distribution infrastructures.
🔏 GDPR – Protection of producer and supply chain data
Food companies must comply with GDPR, which mandates the protection of sensitive data from suppliers, customers, and supply chain partners. Obligations include: protection of consumer data, traceability of the supply chain, cybersecurity for management and logistics systems, and continuous monitoring to prevent unauthorized access.
🏭 ISO 27001 – Data security
ISO 27001 protects business data, providing security standards for the agrifood sector.
💰 NRRP – Investments in agricultural digitalization
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) supports the digitalization of the agrifood and agricultural sectors, including cybersecurity for digital infrastructures.
🛡️ Security solutions
Protect and strengthen the security of the food supply chain.
Agricultural and food companies must adopt advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect production plants, supply chains, and consumer data. Here are some of our services:
⚔️ MDR – Monitoring and threat response
Our Managed Detection & Response (MDR) service provides 24/7 monitoring of production plants, smart farms, and distribution systems, blocking cyberattacks in real time.
👁️ NOC – Protection of agrifood networks
Our Network Operations Center (NOC) protects farms, food processing plants, and warehouses from cyberattacks and digital sabotage.
📬 CSG – Communication security
Through the Communication Security Gateway (CSG), we securely manage email exchanges and messaging, filtering threats such as phishing, malware, and spam, protecting business communications from external attacks and intrusions.
🛠️ Security testing for food plants and smart farms
We perform penetration testing and vulnerability assessments on management software, production plants, and agricultural IoT devices, preventing intrusions and tampering.
🔎 Free initial assessment
Protect your network before it’s too late.
A cyberattack can block your agricultural production. Protect yourself now. Are you a farm, food producer, or distributor? Contact us for a free evaluation of your IT and OT infrastructure security.
