Retail Processing & Manufacturing$219
Retail Processing: Store Systems & Plant Security Summit
Mar 25, 2027
8:45 am EDT
In-person
Toronto, Canada
Food sector
Retail Processing & Manufacturing
Retail processing and manufacturing turn raw inputs into packaged, store-ready goods across connected production and point-of-sale systems. Dependence on ERP, e-commerce, and payment infrastructure exposes it to ransomware, data breaches, and fraud that can disrupt supply and expose customer data.
Events
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Food Retail Vendor Assurance Webinar
Apr 14, 2027
12:00 pm UTC
Online
Leader insights
Thought-leadership written for this sector.
Reports
Research and briefings covering this sector.
September 2, 2025
FrameworkOT Security Framework for Food Producers
A practical, control-by-control framework for securing the operational technology that runs a modern food plant.
By IP Services
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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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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.
September 22, 2025 · 4 min read
Best PracticesTesting 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
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
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May 20, 2025 · 6 min read
Technical Deep DiveSegmenting 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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January 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.
ArchitecturePublic
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
The foundational framework for managing cybersecurity risk — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover. The common language most food-industry security programmes build on.
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FDA Food Defense & Mitigation Strategies
US FDA guidance on food defense under FSMA — mitigation strategies for intentional adulteration, increasingly intertwined with the cyber-physical security of processing lines.
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ArchitectureMembers Only
ISA/IEC 62443 — Industrial Automation & Control Systems Security
The global standard series for securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems — the reference for protecting plant-floor and process-control environments.
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