How to Approach Cybersecurity in Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Summary: A Dragos webinar with Food Processing magazine described how a Russian ransomware gang probed JBS USA's networks starting in February, spent three months exfiltrating potentially five terabytes of data, then shut down processing facilities in six states, Australia and Canada over Memorial Day weekend. JBS paid an $11 million ransom, and Dragos consultant Miriam Lorbert said 86% of Dragos Services customers had limited to no visibility into their OT environments.
What you should know: JBS plants process 25% of U.S. beef and 20% of pork, so a single credential theft and three months of undetected exfiltration reached the national food supply before anyone responded. If 86% of assessed customers cannot see their own OT assets, rogue devices and communications in a plant would go unnoticed until they are already an incident.
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