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FOOD PRODUCERS BAND TOGETHER IN FACE OF CYBER THREATS


COMPANIES LAUNCH INFORMATION-SHARING PLATFORM FOR INDUSTRY AS ATTACKS MOUNT

CORN HARVESTING NEAR WOODBURN, IND. HEAVY EQUIPMENT USED BY FARMERS IS OFTEN
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Food and agriculture companies in the U.S. face mounting cybersecurity threats,
executives in the sector say, spurring them to formalize how they share
information with each other.

Hackers have targeted companies of all sizes and in all industries in recent
years, particularly through ransomware strikes and data-extortion tactics. While
many such attacks are opportunistic, with criminals often pouncing on holes in
defenses where they can find them, security chiefs within the food supply chain
worry that it could be a key target for more sophisticated hackers. Such
attackers, who may be affiliated with nation-states, could have destructive
intentions rather than purely chasing financial gain.

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“When you get into the more advanced, targeted type of threats, you get actors
who are specifically tasked against different critical infrastructure sectors,
and food and agriculture is one of those,” said Paul Hershberger, the leader of
the cyber command center at agribusiness giant Cargill. 

Information-sharing on threats within the industry has been patchy. A specialist
group within the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center,
which tracks threats across multiple industries, served as the primary avenue
for intercompany intelligence since 2013. Last month, the IT-ISAC announced that
the food and agriculture sector would finally be getting its own, dedicated
platform. Similar groups already exist to enable companies in the financial
services, retail, automobile and other sectors to exchange details about threats
their peers should watch out for. 



“There’s been a long recognition that the food and ag sector was one of the few
critical infrastructure industries without an ISAC,” said Scott Algeier,
executive director of both the IT-ISAC and the new Food and Ag-ISAC. Founding
board members include PepsiCo, Bunge, Tyson, Cargill, Conagra Brands and
Corteva.

“We’re tracking threat actors. We have playbooks that we’ve developed and our
members provide input on that, help track the adversaries, their tactics,
techniques and procedures, how they move around, how you can stop them,” Algeier
said.

Concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the U.S. agricultural sector
have deepened after incidents at several large companies. While those attacks
had limited impacts, experts say they are warning signs of how easily a
cyberattack could disrupt the nation’s food supply. 

In February, a ransomware attack on food giant Dole forced the company to
briefly shut down its North American systems, though it quickly recovered. The
incident cost around $10.5 million, the company said in its first-quarter
earnings report. Dole didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Grain cooperatives, distributors and vital services such as meatpackers have
also fallen victim to hackers in recent years, with the highest-profile incident
to date being a ransomware attack on the U.S. arm of JBS Foods in May 2021. The
attack roiled the U.S. food industry, driving up wholesale meat prices and
disrupting trade in cattle and hogs.

Agriculture faces similar cybersecurity threats to other critical infrastructure
sectors, but Cargill’s Hershberger and other security chiefs say that it also
has unique challenges owing to how it uses technology, and connects with a range
of industries, including water, power, logistics and other areas.

Food production, from planting and harvesting crops, and rearing livestock,
through to packaging and logistics, has become a technologically sophisticated
process in recent years. Farmers now make use of distributed networks, remote
sensors and edge computing to increase automation and efficiency on their farms,
to monitor the health of crops and tell when their equipment needs maintenance.
These internet-enabled devices are often poorly secured and provide
opportunities for hackers to gain entry to networks that might otherwise be
tough to crack. 

Meanwhile, the heavy equipment used by farmers is also dependent on computer
systems, particularly as autonomous vehicles gain wider use. That also
introduces cybersecurity challenges, manufacturers say.

“Everything is becoming more and more connected, and as things become connected,
that creates an attack surface,” said Carl Kubalsky, deputy chief information
security officer at Deere & Co., whose tractors and harvesters are ubiquitous
across the U.S. agricultural landscape.

Kubalsky, who helps lead several hundred cybersecurity staff at the company,
said Deere works with security companies such as HackerOne and Bishop Fox to
find vulnerabilities in its software. It hosts an annual cyber event at its test
farm in Des Moines, Iowa, where university students attempt to hack its
equipment, and frequently dissects vulnerabilities with its software-engineering
staff.

“We’re very transparent with our employees about how this was the vulnerability,
this is how we found it, this is how we closed it. And this is what you can look
for moving forward,” he said.

The food and agriculture sector doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel, Kubalsky
said, and can learn lessons from other industries. A connected tractor, for
instance, will share a number of security considerations with similar products,
such as connected vehicles, he said.

“While there is certainly some uniqueness in any given sector, I think that the
industry is facing the same challenges at large,” he said.

Write to James Rundle at james.rundle@wsj.com

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