OT Cybersecurity for the Food Industry
RIGHT-SIZED SOLUTIONS TO FIT ALL COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
When making plans to increase your enterprise’s productivity and profitability, cybersecurity probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Protecting your operational technology and equipment from threat actors and malware should be a priority. High-quality OT cybersecurity for the food industry can be the difference in maintaining a solid bottom line. At LeveL5Cyber, we offer cost-effective, smart, and trustworthy IT/OT solutions.
What We Offer
decades of hands-on experience
Operational focus to secure critical infrastructure
LeveL5Cyber offers advisory services that enable businesses to scale their operations and combat evolving threats. Our experts leverage decades of experience to provide solutions that optimize cybersecurity capabilities and drive towards program maturity.
Why Do Food and Beverage Manufacturers Need Cybersecurity?
A significant percentage of cyberattacks every year happen to manufacturers. Threat actors may endanger your business in multiple ways:
- Locking personnel out of control systems
- Paralyzing production
- Exposing trade secrets or sensitive information
- Harming your relationship with clients and consumers
Every hour of downtime represents potential lost revenue. Investing in OT cybersecurity for the beverage industry is one of the best decisions manufacturers can make.
How Does OT Cybersecurity for the Food Industry Help?
We provide expert solutions that adapt and scale with your organization’s output.
Risk Assessments
To build strong cybersecurity defenses, you need to know where your system’s risks are. We can help show you what steps to take for compliance with NIST guidelines, ISA/IEC, and others.
Segmentation
Our team can help you plan safeguards for the gateways between your network and operational equipment. The purpose of segmentation is to reduce intruders’ ability of potentially gaining access to your production systems.
IT/OT Integrations
Security vulnerabilities often appear when new software is combined with older equipment. IT/OT integrations may help you develop effective solutions that add security without negatively affecting production.
Where We Fit In
LeveL5Cyber has decades of hands-on experience working with Food & Beverage sector to address their specific needs and requirements. Our team understands the unique challenges and processes that exist and how to bolster cyber defenses within these arenas.
Services That Align to this Industry
Why Choose Our OT Cybersecurity Services?
The professionals at LeveL5Cyber have decades of experience with OT cybersecurity for the food industry. With our expert help, your organization can take the right steps to protect against attacks and keep production going smoothly. Contact us for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions
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LeveL5Cyber’s Risk Assessments enable organizations to inform and prioritize decisions regarding cybersecurity. The services take into consideration today’s evolving threat landscape to drive cybersecurity priorities with an outcome-driven approach using industry standard processes.
The Agriculture Sector is critical and vulnerable to cyberattacks, despite having no cybersecurity requirements for control systems used in the food manufacturing process. Ransomware, malware, or other attacks can lead to delays in shipping of perishable items, shortages of necessary product, or even health emergencies (crop manipulation). Disruptions to other sectors may have a direct impact on agriculture as well.
(Needs rewrite) Digital technologies have the potential to boost agricultural productivity to meet global food demand. Internet-enabled sensors allow farmers to gather vast amounts of real-time data on growing conditions, drought, and pest control that can inform future decisions. Many farmers in the countries where USAID works also rely on digital services to gain access to loans, sell their harvest, and set aside money that can help them resist shocks. However, with the obvious benefits of digital agriculture come new risks. Insecure or poorly designed digital agricultural devices or applications can be hacked, potentially exposing sensitive data—including Personal Identifiable Information (PII)—to cyber criminals or other malign actors.
OT Network Segmentation remains crucial in limiting the propagation of malware. Some of the other benefits include: Reduced network congestion for ‘noisy’ applications (better performance), Limited blast radius for potential cyber-attacks (reduced lateral damage), Restricted access to key resources (less opportunity for ‘accidents’)
Operational Technology (OT) Firewall Lifecycle Management is key to a mature cybersecurity program. Our team at LeveL5Cyber has decades of hand-on experience successfully managing complex firewall projects for F500 companies from start to finish. We can help design and implement solutions that meet business-specific requirements.
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