Meat$279
Meat Processing Plant Floor Security Summit
Sep 30, 2026
9:00 am CDT
In-person
Omaha, United States
Food sector
Meat
The meat sector runs continuous slaughter, deboning, and packing lines under tight cold-chain and traceability rules. Heavy reliance on industrial control systems, weigh-price labelling, and just-in-time logistics exposes it to ransomware, OT tampering, and recall-triggering data manipulation.
Events
Briefings, workshops and gatherings for this sector.
Leader insights
Thought-leadership written for this sector.
Reports
Research and briefings covering this sector.
November 13, 2025
Annual ReportThe State of Food Cybersecurity 2025
CSAFI’s flagship annual report on the threats, incidents and defensive trends shaping the food industry over the past year.
By CSAFI Research
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March 3, 2025
Best PracticesBest Practices for Secure Remote Vendor Access
A concise guide to letting equipment vendors dial in for support without opening the plant to attackers.
By Defense Systems
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January 20, 2025
FrameworkBuilding a Food-ISAC: A Framework for Information Sharing
A blueprint for how the food industry can share threat intelligence quickly and safely, the way other sectors already do.
By CSAFI Research
View report
October 1, 2024
Annual ReportAnnual Member Cybersecurity Benchmark 2024
How CSAFI members measure up on the controls that matter — aggregated, anonymised, and benchmarked.
By CSAFI Research
View reportArticles
How-to guidance and analysis for this sector.
October 30, 2025 · 5 min read
Culture & LeadershipBuilding 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
Read articleJune 11, 2025 · 8 min read
Regulation & ComplianceWhat NIS2 means for food manufacturers
Europe’s tightened cybersecurity rules reach further into the food industry than many realise.
By CSAFI Policy Desk
Read articleApril 28, 2025 · 5 min read
Best PracticesBackups that actually work when ransomware hits
Most organisations have backups. Far fewer have backups an attacker cannot also encrypt.
By Nick Saharan
Read articleJanuary 15, 2025 · 6 min read
Best PracticesMFA everywhere: a practical rollout for manufacturers
Multi-factor authentication stops most credential attacks — if you can actually deploy it on a factory.
By CSAFI Research
Read articleIndustry references
Toolkits, portals and standards relevant to this sector.
Technical Deep DivePublic
CISA — Food & Agriculture Sector Resources
The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s hub for the Food & Agriculture critical-infrastructure sector: advisories, toolkits and the sector risk-management agency guidance.
Grain & Cereals +2
OpenGrain & CerealsMeatDairy
Vendor ManagementFree Member
Food and Ag-ISAC
The Information Sharing and Analysis Center for the food and agriculture industry — member threat intelligence, sector-specific alerts and a trusted community for sharing incidents.
Poultry +2
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