Agriculture and food security, from field to shelf
Food and agriculture is a designated critical infrastructure sector, and its operations run on connected equipment, tight schedules and perishable product. CMDash gives growers, processors and distributors a clear program and the proof to go with it.
Regulatory and customer pressure
Critical infrastructure designation
Food and agriculture is one of the sectors the U.S. government treats as critical infrastructure, and sector guidance expects a managed security program.
Retailer and buyer requirements
Grocers, foodservice and large buyers send suppliers security questionnaires and increasingly ask for an independent report.
Lenders and insurers
Cyber insurance applications and lender reviews ask for evidence of MFA, backups and patching.
Threats that target this industry
Ransomware at processors and distributors
Perishable product means a few days of downtime becomes spoiled inventory and missed orders.
Connected equipment
Precision agriculture, refrigeration and packaging lines put operational technology on the same networks as office systems.
Supply-chain fraud
Fake invoices and altered payment details target the many small parties between farm and retailer.
The frameworks CMDash tracks for you
Crosswalked, so one piece of evidence counts twice:
- SOC 2 Type II and NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Capabilities that matter most here
Live posture grade
A live grade the owner and the plant manager can both act on.
An A-F score recomputed every 4 hours once a tool is connected, with 30-day and 90-day trends.
Evidence from your tools
Evidence from the tools you run, ready when a buyer, lender or insurer asks.
Integration data collected on a schedule and turned into evidence by mapping rules you install or write, plus manual uploads with history.
Trust Center and questionnaires
One reviewed set of answers for every retailer questionnaire.
A public page for your organization where prospects submit security questionnaires. Nothing reaches the requester until someone on your team approves every answer.
External exposure monitoring
Daily checks of the e-mail and DNS settings that stop invoice fraud and spoofing.
Daily DNS and e-mail authentication checks on the domains you have proven you own, and IP blocklist tracking (Essentials and up).
Risk register and FAIR
A risk register that puts a dollar figure on downtime and data loss.
Likelihood, impact, owner and remediation per risk, with an annualized loss figure in dollars (Starter and up).
Sources
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