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Industry references

Toolkits, portals and standards relevant to this sector.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry+9Meat, Seafood & Aquaculture, Dairy, Beverage, Grain & Cereals, Industrial Baking & Snack Manufacturing, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing, Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

NCSC: Advice For Organisations On Secure OT Products

NCSC guidance providing a 12-point secure-by-design procurement checklist to help organizations select secure operational technology products and suppliers.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry+9Meat, Seafood & Aquaculture, Dairy, Beverage, Grain & Cereals, Industrial Baking & Snack Manufacturing, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing, Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

NCSC: Understanding Your OT Environment

NCSC guidance explaining how to build and maintain a definitive record of OT assets, architecture, and connectivity to strengthen operational cybersecurity.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry+9Meat, Seafood & Aquaculture, Dairy, Beverage, Grain & Cereals, Industrial Baking & Snack Manufacturing, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing, Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

NCSC: Designing Safer Links – Secure Connectivity For OT

NCSC guidance introducing secure connectivity principles for designing, reviewing, and managing secure OT network connectivity and reducing cyber risk.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry+9Meat, Seafood & Aquaculture, Dairy, Beverage, Grain & Cereals, Industrial Baking & Snack Manufacturing, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing, Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

NCSC Operational Technology Collection

NCSC UK's official collection of guidance for securing Operational Technology (OT), ICS, SCADA, and industrial control systems across critical infrastructure sectors.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Meat+4Dairy, Beverage, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing

Secure Connectivity Principles For Operational Technology

Joint guidance outlining principles for designing, securing, and managing OT network connectivity to reduce cyber risk and improve operational resilience.

Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Meat+4Dairy, Beverage, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing

CISA–NCSC Joint OT Guidance: Creating And Maintaining A Definitive View Of OT Architecture

Joint guidance helping organizations build and maintain an accurate inventory and architectural view of OT systems to improve security and resilience.

Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Meat+4Dairy, Beverage, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing

OT Cybersecurity For Food & Drink Manufacturers

Presentation covering OT cybersecurity risks, industrial threats, regulations, and practical security measures for food and beverage manufacturers.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Meat+4Dairy, Beverage, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing

Zero Trust OT Security For The Food Industry

Technical guide explaining how Zero Trust improves OT security and protects food manufacturing environments from evolving cyber threats.

Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Meat+4Dairy, Beverage, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Retail Processing & Manufacturing

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security

PwC guide explaining OT and ICS cybersecurity, common threats, security standards, and best practices for protecting industrial control systems.

Articles

How-to guidance and analysis for this sector.

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Reports

Research and briefings covering this sector.

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Whitepaper
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Your Biggest Cyber Risk

This whitepaper highlights why unmanaged vendor access represents the single greatest cyber risk to the food and agriculture sector. It addresses how forgotten third-party credentials create silent doorways for attackers to disrupt critical operations.

July 15, 2026

IP SERVICES
IP SERVICES
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Whitepaper
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

OT Security Insights Secure OT-IT Convergence to Keep the Production Lines Working

A stratgic analysis of Operational Technology (OT) security, providing a framework for food and beverage manufacturers to secure converging IT-OT environments and protect lines for "ingested products" from a 238% annual increase in cyberattack attempts.

June 3, 2026

Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks
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Whitepaper
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Industrial Cybersecurity in the Food and Beverage Sector

Whitepaper focused on OT/ICS protection, ransomware risks, NIS2 compliance, and operational resilience in food manufacturing environments.

May 25, 2026

AnzenSage
AnzenSage
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Whitepaper
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Zero Trust Remote Access for Manufacturing

A strategic guide on implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) 2.0 within the manufacturing sector, with a specific focus on securing food production environments. It details how to protect critical operational technology (OT) and digital supply chains aginst cyberattacks that threated production uptime and food safety data integrity.

May 22, 2026

Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks
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Annual Report
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Dragos 2025 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report

A comprehensive annual report analyzing the evolving Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control System (ICS) threat landscape across manufacturing, energy, food & beverage, and critical infrastructure sectors. The report provides insights into ransomware activity, threat groups, vulnerabilities, and industrial cybersecurity trends impacting global industrial organizations.

May 8, 2026

DRAGOS
DRAGOS
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Blogs

Industry perspectives from the CSAFI team on this sector.

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eBooks

In-depth guides and playbooks written for this sector.

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Events

Briefings, workshops and gatherings for this sector.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Price: Free

Food Manufacturing Security Summit 2026

Sep 10, 2026
8:00 pm UTC
Online
Across VerticalsAcross Verticals
Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Price: Free

OT & Application Security Workshop 2026

Aug 13, 2026
6:00 pm UTC
Online
Across VerticalsAcross Verticals
Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Price: Free

Anomaly Detection & Ransomware Containment For ICS/OT

Jun 9, 2026
Online
United States
Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Price: Free

SANS ICS Top 5 Critical Controls: Incident Response & OT/ICS Security

Jun 3, 2026
5:00 pm CDT
Online
Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Price: Free

SANS ICS Top 5 Critical Controls: Incident Response & Defensible Architecture

Jun 3, 2026
7:00 am CDT
Online
United States
Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others

Price: Free

Food & Beverage OT Cybersecurity: From Visibility To Defense

Jun 1–30, 2026
4:30 am
Online
United States

Leader insights

Thought-leadership written for this sector.

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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

Cybersecurity in the Cold Chain

Protecting Food When Temperature Depends on Technology

Jul 4th, 2026 · 10 min read

Steve Mustard
Steve Mustard
President & CEO
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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

Cybersecurity Is Now a Food Safety Issue

Whether We Admit it or Not!

May 26th, 2026 · 5 min read

Scott Alldridge
Scott Alldridge
CSAFI Board Advisor Cybersecurity
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Playbooks & Best Practices
Food-Tech, Ingredients & Others+3Retail Processing & Manufacturing, Food Logistics & Warehousing, Industrial Baking & Snack Manufacturing

Operational Trust: Why Zero Trust Must Extend Beyond the Network and into the PLC

Cybersecurity Has Protected Data. The Next Challenge Is Protecting Reality.

Jul 28th, 2026 · 3 min read

Scott Alldridge
Scott Alldridge
CSAFI Board Advisor Cybersecurity
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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

AI and Machine Vision in Food Inspection

Seeing More, Deciding Faster—and Trusting the Results

Apr 6th, 2026 · 5 min read

Steve Mustard
Steve Mustard
President & CEO
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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

Legacy Control Systems in Food Manufacturing

The Hidden Cybersecurity Risk Behind Reliable Operations

Mar 29th, 2026 · 5 min read

Steve Mustard
Steve Mustard
President & CEO
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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

Vendors, Service Providers, and the Hidden Cyber Risk in Food Production

Your resilience is shaped by the practices of the organizations you depend on

Mar 24th, 2026 · 5 min read

Steve Mustard
Steve Mustard
President & CEO
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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

The Purdue Model in the Food Industry

From Milliseconds to Days in Food Production

Mar 8th, 2026 · 3 min read

Steve Mustard
Steve Mustard
President & CEO
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Playbooks & Best Practices
Poultry

Bowtie Diagrams - Understanding Cybersecurity Threats in Food Production

Understanding threats and the different controls needed

Feb 28th, 2026 · 3 min read

Steve Mustard
Steve Mustard
President & CEO
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Operational Technology & Industrial Control System Security
Poultry

The Vendor You Forgot About Is Probably Your Biggest Cyber Risk

Where most food and agriculture executives believe cyber risk comes from...but maybe not?

Feb 21st, 2026 · 5 min read

Scott Alldridge
Scott Alldridge
CSAFI Board Advisor Cybersecurity
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