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Practical thinking on food-industry cybersecurity from the CSAFI community — field notes, deep dives and guidance you can act on.

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November 18, 2025 · 6 min read

Threat Intelligence

Securing the cold chain against ransomware

Why refrigeration and logistics systems are a prime target — and the controls that keep produce moving when attackers strike.

By Deon Engelbrecht
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October 30, 2025 · 5 min read

Culture & Leadership

Building a security culture on the plant floor

Technology alone will not protect a food producer. The people running the line have to be part of the defence.

By Michael Newbury
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February 10, 2025 · 5 min read

Culture & Leadership

Why food and agriculture is critical infrastructure

An attack on a processor is not just a business problem — it is a public one.

By Michael Newbury
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November 18, 2025 · 6 min read

Threat Intelligence

Securing the cold chain against ransomware

Why refrigeration and logistics systems are a prime target — and the controls that keep produce moving when attackers strike.

By Deon Engelbrecht
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October 30, 2025 · 5 min read

Culture & Leadership

Building a security culture on the plant floor

Technology alone will not protect a food producer. The people running the line have to be part of the defence.

By Michael Newbury
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February 10, 2025 · 5 min read

Culture & Leadership

Why food and agriculture is critical infrastructure

An attack on a processor is not just a business problem — it is a public one.

By Michael Newbury
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September 22, 2025 · 4 min read

Best Practices

Testing your incident response before you need it

A tabletop exercise is the cheapest way to find the gaps in your plan — long before an attacker does.

By Nick Saharan
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August 14, 2025 · 7 min read

Technical Deep Dive

Third-party risk in food-tech

Every vendor you connect to is a door into your network. Here is how to keep it locked.

By Pankaj Upadhyay
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July 5, 2025 · 3 min read

Threat Intelligence

A field guide to phishing in the food supply chain

The lures that work on procurement teams, and the two-minute checks that stop them.

By CSAFI Research
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June 11, 2025 · 8 min read

Regulation & Compliance

What NIS2 means for food manufacturers

Europe’s tightened cybersecurity rules reach further into the food industry than many realise.

By CSAFI Policy Desk
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May 20, 2025 · 6 min read

Technical Deep Dive

Segmenting IT and OT networks in a food plant

The single control that most often turns a catastrophe into an inconvenience.

By Deon Engelbrecht
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April 28, 2025 · 5 min read

Best Practices

Backups that actually work when ransomware hits

Most organisations have backups. Far fewer have backups an attacker cannot also encrypt.

By Nick Saharan
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