Third-party risk in food-tech

Modern food producers run on a web of third parties: managed service providers, remote-support vendors, cloud platforms and equipment makers who dial in to tune a machine.

Each connection is convenient, and each is a risk. The 2020s taught the industry that a supplier breach can become your breach overnight.

The answer is not to cut the cord but to govern it: inventory who has access, insist on least privilege, and review the list every quarter. A vendor that no longer needs a login should not still have one.