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Multi-Signal Managed Detection and Response Across the Food Supply Chain

Whether your organization is a manufacturer, processor, distributor, or consumer in the supply chain, threat actors are going to capitalize on vulnerable systems and human nature to achieve their objectives. Build a robust cybersecurity strategy with 24/7 threat detection and response capabilities to eliminate cyber threats and put your business ahead of disruption.

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From production to table - prevent downtime and revenue disruption with 24/7 threat detection and response across your food supply chain

Since food manufacturers play a critical role in the food supply chain, they face an increasingly complex set of challenges to protect the critical data assets for their own business as well as their customers. As a cybersecurity leader, there are many factors you need to consider that contribute to increasing cyber threats within the food supply chain as threat actors seek to:

  • Interrupt, or completely halt, the production of goods and service operations by deploying malware or ransomware to internal systems and equipment controls, leading to loss of revenue
  • Breach intellectual property (IP) of proprietary recipes and the production process, resulting in inventory interception or direct theft
  • Take advantage of insufficient investment in skilled cybersecurity personnel, tools, and technology needed to mitigate a security incident
  • Capitalize on vulnerabilities across the attack surface that may stem from multiple third-party vendor relationships and compromised IIoT sensors and wireless systems
  • Fine-tune their ransomware deployment by crafting highly convincing phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaigns, which can sour the relationship between food manufacturers and their consumers or third-party vendors

Without the appropriate cybersecurity measures in place for rapid threat detection and response, these cyber threats can result in:

  • Disclosure of sensitive information or regulated data, such as confidential business or the end consumers' information
  • Business downtime, resulting in costly disruption of fulfillment operations
  • Financial and legal penalties resulting from a breach of contract due to downtime

You need 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities, continuous protection of your networks and proprietary supply chain data, strong access control measures, and proactive defense against cyberattackers targeting your supply chain or third-party vendors to protect your food supply organization.

How eSentire Managed Detection and Response Can Help

eSentire is recognized globally as The Authority in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) because we hunt, investigate and stop cyber threats before they become business-disrupting events. With two 24/7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs), hundreds of cyber experts, and 2000+ customers across 80+ countries, we have scaled to deliver cybersecurity services across highly regulated industries with a proven track record of success in securing businesses across the food supply chain including:

  • One of the world's largest meat processing companies
  • Agricultural cooperatives and marketing organizations
  • Major national wholesale grocery supply companies
  • North American grain producers and exporters
  • Food and beverage manufacturers
  • Regional food service suppliers

We Support the Food Supply Chain By:

  • Preventing operational disruption of internal and consumer-facing services through a combination of 24/7 Managed Detection and Response, Exposure Management Services, and Digital Forensics Incident Response Services
  • Ensuring that any regulatory penalties and third-party costs associated with data breaches are minimized
  • Ensuring your business remains compliant with stringent cybersecurity compliance and regulatory mandates
  • Reducing your business risk by helping your team identify your critical sources of value, discover existing vulnerabilities, and address them based on what would have the worst impact to your organization
  • Protecting your data and customer data from ransomware attacks, third-party risk, data theft or exposure, and insider threats

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Do you know how much operational downtime will cost your business? Get insights on how you can prevent downtime based on your specific industry threats and compare the cost of one day of downtime vs. the cost of a 24/7 in-house SOC vs. the value of investing in eSentire MDR.

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Learn how we protect the manufacturing and retail industries from disruption:

Food Supply Threat Intelligence Report

Managing Cyber Threats Across the Food Manufacturing Supply Chain

“Food and Agriculture” is designated by the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as one of 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors. According to CISA, in the U.S. alone this sector “is composed of an estimated 2.1 million farms, 935,000 restaurants, and more than 200,000 registered food manufacturing, processing, and storage facilities,” not to mention distributors, retail operations (e.g., grocery stores) and other participants.

The sector has undergone an enormous digital transformation in recent decades: automation, artificial intelligence, embedded sensors, cloud services, and centralized management systems have been integrated into practically every point of the food supply chain. While these technologies have enabled greater efficiencies and higher margins, they have also introduced new cyber risks and an attack surface vulnerable to emerging cyber threats.

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In this threat intelligence report, we share:

  • A look at some of the most concerning cyber risks impacting the food supply chain industry
  • New threat research from eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU) that outlines data from threats impacting food supply chain organizations over 2021-2022
  • Recommendations on how industry security leaders can strengthen their cyber defenses and mitigate the risk of downtime revenue disruption
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Food Supply Threat Summit

Prevent Downtime and Revenue Disruption Across Your Food Supply Chain

Whether your organization is a manufacturer, processor, distributor, or consumer in the food supply chain, threat actors are going to capitalize on vulnerable systems and human nature to achieve their objectives. Unless you’re prepared to defend against modern ransomware, these attacks can result in your organization being locked out of mission-critical systems and applications for days or even weeks.

In this Food Supply Threat Summit, we share insights on the most significant cyber threats impacting food supply organizations and how you can strengthen your cybersecurity posture to prevent downtime and revenue disruption. The threat summit features:

  • A Food Supply Threat Briefing
    Presented by Ryan Westman, Senior Manager,
    Threat Intelligence, eSentire
  • A Fireside Chat with Aaron Ayers, Sr. IT Director at JBS Foods
    Hosted by Greg Crowley, CISO, eSentire

How eSentire Protects Food Manufacturing and Supply Companies

Access to Proprietary Information

Operational Disruption and the Cost of Downtime

Protecting Against Supply Chain and Third-Party Vendor Risk

Preventing Ransomware Attacks

Avoiding Regulatory and Compliance Violations

KEY FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Access to Proprietary Information

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

Our 24/7 Elite Threat Hunters and SOC Cyber Analysts actively hunt for threats across your environment. We detect intrusions and contain attacks before data can be exfiltrated.

KEY FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Operational Disruption and the Cost of Downtime

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

We detect malicious administrative activity through remote access tools and stop intrusions before malware can be deployed throughout your environment

KEY FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Protecting Against Supply Chain and Third-Party Vendor Risk

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

We mitigate supply chain and third-party vendor risk.

  • eSentire Exposure Management Service experts support in security assessments, testing and make strategic recommendations to offset risks for the food manufacturing supply chain.
  • eSentire Managed Detection and Response has repeatedly caught and stopped vendor compromises before the vendor reported the vulnerability

KEY FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Preventing Ransomware Attacks

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

We monitor your attack surface 24/7 to discover intrusion attempts, preventing the pervasive deployment of malware and ransomware.

  • We support multi-signal coverage ensuring visibility across endpoint, network, log, cloud, and other data sources for deep investigation and kill-switch response capabilities.
  • We offer endpoint protection to prevent your defenses from being disabled.

KEY FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Avoiding Regulatory and Compliance Violations

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

Our 24/7 Global SOCs leverages proven run books which include detectors mapped to requirements and reporting measures for PCI DSS, CCPA, GLBA, SOX, NYCRR, HIPAA, GDPR, as well as state-level regulations.

Food Supply Cybersecurity FAQ

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Food Supply Cybersecurity FAQ

What is a food supply cybersecurity program?

Whether your organization is a food manufacturer, processor, distributor, or consumer, threat actors will capitalize on vulnerable systems and human nature to achieve their objectives. Therefore, your food supply cybersecurity program must be able to:

  • Protect your network data and proprietary supply chain information 24/7
  • Implement strong access control measures, especially for privileged users
  • Defend against attackers targeting your supply chain or third-party vendors

Why is food supply cybersecurity important?

Food manufacturers are susceptible to a growing set of cyber threats, including malware or ransomware attacks, third-party breaches via compromised vendors and phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaigns. Without a food supply cybersecurity program, these cyber threats can result in:

  • Interruption of supply chain production and revenue disruption
  • Breach of intellectual property (IP) of proprietary recipes and the production process
  • Disclosure of sensitive information or regulated data
  • Financial and legal penalties resulting from a breach of contract due to downtime

Food manufacturers need 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities to defend against cyberattacks.

How does eSentire protect food supply organizations?

At eSentire, we support the food supply chain by:

  • Preventing operational disruption of internal and consumer-facing services
  • Ensuring that any regulatory penalties and third-party costs associated with data breaches are minimized
  • Ensuring your business remains compliant with stringent cybersecurity compliance and regulatory mandates
  • Reducing your business risk by helping your team identify your critical sources of value, discover existing vulnerabilities, and address them based on what would have the worst impact to your organization
  • Protecting your data and customer data from ransomware attacks, third-party risk, data theft or exposure, and insider threats

eSentire multi-signal MDR services ingest high-fidelity data sources across endpoint, network, log, cloud, asset and vulnerability data that enables complete visibility into the attack surface. We proactively detect, disrupt and remediate cyber threats before they impact your business. Contact us to learn how we can help build your food supply cybersecurity program today.

eSentire Cybersecurity Portfolio for Food Supply Organizations

At eSentire, we go beyond the market's capability in threat response and specifically address cybersecurity risks for the food supply sector. eSentire's multi signal MDR approach ingests endpoint, network, log, cloud, asset and vulnerability data to enable complete attack surface visibility. Enriched detections from the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) are applied to captured data identifying known & unknown threats including suspicious activity and zero-day attacks. Our SOC Cyber Analysts, and Elite Threat Hunters are mission-driven to put food supply organizations ahead of business disruption. Powered by our industry-leading XDR cloud platform and unique threat intelligence, eSentire can detect and respond to cybersecurity threats in the food supply industry with a Mean Time to Contain of 15 minutes.

Today we secure a growing list of customers in the food supply and manufacturing space including:

Our Food Manufacturing and Supply Industry Cybersecurity Services

At eSentire, we go beyond the market’s capability in threat response and specifically address cybersecurity risks for the food supply sector. eSentire’s multi-signal MDR approach ingests endpoint, network, log, cloud, asset and vulnerability data to enable complete attack surface visibility. Enriched detections from the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) are applied to captured data identifying known & unknown threats including suspicious activity and zero-day attacks. Our SOC Cyber Analysts, and Elite Threat Hunters are mission-driven to put food supply organizations ahead of business disruption. Powered by our industry-leading XDR cloud platform and unique threat intelligence, eSentire can detect and respond to cybersecurity threats in the food supply industry with a Mean Time to Contain of 15 minutes.

Managed Detection & Response

We deliver complete and robust Response for the food supply industry. By combining cutting-edge machine learning XDR, 24/7 threat hunting expertise and security operations leadership, we hunt and disrupt known & unknown threats before they impact your business.

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Exposure Management Services

Strategic services including Managed Vulnerability Assessments, vCISO, and Managed Phishing & Security Awareness Training to identify gaps, build defensive strategies, operationalize risk mitigation and continuously advance your security program.

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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Battle-tested Incident Commander level expertise, crime scene reconstruction and digital forensics investigations that can bear scrutiny in a court of law. The world’s fastest threat suppression guarantee with a 4-hour SLA available with our IR Retainer.

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Why Our Customers Choose eSentire

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We look at eSentire to be the experts. We trust them implicitly. One of the key differentiators I feel about eSentire in their response methodology is they’re with us through the thick and thin till the end so we're comfortable until the issue is resolved.

Ray Texter

Chief of Information Security, Texas United Management Corportation

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