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Sometimes, all it takes is 30 minutes to learn the ins and outs of new food technologies and trends that are transforming the food and beverage industry. In this series, we dig into a food innovation topic and link you to content and resources so you can become a master on the topic in 30 minutes (or less!).
For Cybersecurity Month in October this year we dug deep into the topic of cybersecurity and the food industry. This week we’re recapping all of the original content posted on the topic in 2023.
Katherine MacDonald, Director General, Strategic Management, Information Systems Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, encourages food businesses to put cyber security measures in place to prevent business disruptions.
A look at cybercrime and cybersecurity, and how they affect Canada’s food and beverage industry.
Malware, also known as malicious software or malicious applications, is software designed by cybercriminals to damage computer programs or systems, or to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and/or data.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is Canada’s technical authority on cyber security, and is part of Canada’s National Cyber Security Strategy.
The Cyber Science Lab in the School of Computer Science, University of Guelph is an international not-for-profit research lab focused on advancing knowledge and practice in cybersecurity, digital forensics, threat hunting and threat intelligence.
Ransomware is a type of malware that locks a computer or network system and all of its data until a ransom is paid to unlock it.
As an industry where large amounts of data and technology are interconnected, food and beverage companies and grocery retailers have been vulnerable to cyber security threats and attacks.
If you’ve got more than 30 minutes, these are for you:
CFIN and cybersecurity firm Beauceron partnered to deliver a three-part webinar series on cybersecurity threats in the food and beverage industry. In part one of the series Nestor Gomez, Chief Technology Officer for CFIN spoke with Rozita Dara, principal investigator of data management and privacy governance research program at the University of Guelph, and David Shipley, CEO and co-founder of Beauceron Security to discuss overall cybersecurity in the food sector.
In part two of the series CFIN CEO Dana McCauley discusses ransomware with Dan Couillard of the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity, and David Shipley of Beauceron.
In part three of the series Tyson MacInnis, CFIN’s Regional Innovation Director for Atlantic Canada, sat down with David Shipley of Beauceron, and Vidya ShankarNarayan, CIO and Assistant Deputy Minister, Information Systems Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, to discuss business email compromise and how companies can protect their email systems from cyber attacks.