Industries · Agriculture

The harvest comes in. On time, every season.

Connected equipment made the season attackable, and the season does not wait. The job: the fleet runs, the yard moves, the silos fill, because the routes to them were tested before harvest week.

The season

The harvest comes in. There is no second season.

One season, field to silo. Testing found the equipment-lockout route through telematics and closed it before harvest week.

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One route to the fleet. Found in testing, closed before harvest weekThe silos filled on schedule
The problem

What agriculture is up against.

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Equipment that can’t go offline

Climate control, irrigation, and feed systems run continuously. A test window that works for a web app can ruin a harvest.

Digitization outran security

GPS fleets, soil sensors, and farm platforms arrived fast. The controls to protect them mostly didn’t.

Ransomware halts the food supply

Hit a processing plant or a logistics hub and product stops moving, perishable inventory and all.

A supply chain with no slack

A handful of large processors and platforms sit behind the whole sector. One outage cascades.

No one on staff speaks OT

Tight margins mean lean teams. Specialised ag-tech and OT security expertise is rarely in-house.

The problem

Equipment that can’t go offline

A barn full of livestock does not care that you scheduled a maintenance window. Climate, feed, and irrigation controllers run on biological clocks, not change-management calendars, so a careless probe is the difference between a finding and a loss. We test these systems the way they actually live: always on, no clean reboot to fall back on.

  • Always-on OT, no pause button
  • Failure has a biological cost
  • Test design built around uptime
OT-aware penetration testing →
The problem

Digitization outran security

The tractor now has more connectivity than the office did a decade ago, and nobody stopped to ask who could talk to it. Ag-tech adoption moved at the speed of the sales cycle while authentication, segmentation, and patching stayed at the speed of the off-season. We map what got connected and find the doors that shipped open.

  • Connected gear, legacy controls
  • Sensors and telemetry rarely segmented
  • Patching tied to seasons, not threats
Map the attack surface →
The problem

Ransomware halts the food supply

Encrypt a meatpacking plant’s scheduling system on a Friday and the cost is measured in spoilage by Monday. Processing and cold-chain logistics are where a digital outage becomes a physical one fast, because product that stops moving starts rotting. We rehearse the path attackers take to the systems that keep the line running and the trucks loaded.

  • Processing and logistics are the choke points
  • Perishable inventory has no grace period
  • Recovery rehearsed against the clock
Ransomware readiness →
The problem

A supply chain with no slack

When a few processors handle most of the volume, one of them going dark stops being a vendor problem and becomes a national headline. Concentration means an attacker only has to win once to ripple across an entire commodity. We test the vendors, platforms, and integrations the rest of the sector quietly depends on.

  • Concentrated processors and platforms
  • One outage cascades downstream
  • Vendor and integration exposure tested
Supply chain risk →
The problem

No one on staff speaks OT

The same person running the email server is not going to reverse-engineer a SCADA protocol on a grain dryer, and they shouldn’t have to. Ag margins don’t fund a dedicated OT security team, so the gap between IT and the controllers stays wide open. We bring the specialist eyes the budget can’t keep on payroll.

  • Lean teams, broad responsibilities
  • Ag-tech and OT skills scarce
  • Specialist testing without the headcount
Coverage without the headcount →
How an attacker gets in

Every route ends at the operation: the fleet, the yard, the processing line.

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What you get: every path to the operation, mapped and ranked, tested with care for systems that cannot simply be taken down.

Supply chain risk →
The standards the operation answers to

The bar the standards set, and how we test to it.

Critical infrastructure comes with expectations. The real bar is whether the season is interruptible.

CIRCIA

Critical infrastructure reports significant incidents on federal timelines.

We test the routes that would trigger that report, so you close them first.

NIST CSF

The framework your insurers, lenders and buyers expect you to speak.

We test against the functions that matter, with evidence you can hand over.

IEC 62443

The reference standard for industrial control security: zones and conduits.

We test the paths between the business systems and the machines.

Compliance & risk alignment →
Proof in the yard
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surfaces covered, OT included.

At a meat producer, a purple team ran offense live against the ICS environment. Segmentation gaps found and closed without stopping the line.

Read the food-production study →
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