The Food and Agriculture Information Sharing and Analysis Center debuts
For years, the food and agriculture industry has been a rarity among critical infrastructure sectors: It has had no formal, stand-alone mechanism for sharing cyberthreat information between companies, known as an information sharing and analysis center. Today, that changes with the formation of the Food and Agriculture Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Food and Ag-ISAC).
Cyber experts have repeatedly cited the sector’s lack of its own ISAC as a dangerous security gap in the industry’s ability to get a full picture of the tremendous risks it faces. Backers of the ISAC, which includes major industry players like PepsiCo to Tyson Foods, expect it to fortify the defenses of its members.
“This has the ability to further strengthen a very robust industry as it is today,” Paul Hershberger of Cargill, a founding board member of the ISAC, told me. “To be able to continue to drive the focus on what is good cybersecurity hygiene will benefit participants in the industry across the board.” Read more