Ransomware in the Cold Chain

When downtime has a temperature attached, the economics of extortion change. This whitepaper examines the specific pressures that make cold-chain operators attractive targets and disproportionately likely to pay.

It walks through anonymised case studies drawn from member reports, then sets out an architecture for resilience: isolating refrigeration controls, maintaining offline recovery capability, and pre-agreeing decision authority for a shutdown.

The conclusion is cautiously optimistic. The operators who fared best had done the unglamorous work in advance.