Industries · Agriculture → AgriTech & crop science

The formula is the company. It should live behind more than a login.

For crop science and AgriTech, the crown jewels are biotech applications, proprietary formulations, and R&D data, plus the platforms that hold them. We test whether a competitor or a nation-state could reach them, before one does.

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The problem

What agritech & crop science is up against.

01

IP & R&D theft

Biotech applications, proprietary formulations, and the research data behind them.

The problem

IP & R&D theft

The formula is the company. Years of research sit in a handful of repositories, data lakes, and a few researchers’ machines, and an attacker after it is patient and quiet, not loud. We go after it the way they would, and show you exactly how close someone could get to the crown jewels.

  • Formulations, genetics, and research data
  • Where the crown jewels actually live
  • How close a patient attacker could get
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02

Platform & API exposure

The AgriTech products and APIs that connect growers to your systems.

The problem

Platform & API exposure

Your grower-facing platform is a front door with an API behind it, and that API often reaches further into your systems than anyone drew on a diagram. Business-logic flaws and broken authorization don’t show up on a scanner; they show up when someone asks the API for data that isn’t theirs and gets it. We test the app the way an attacker uses it.

  • Broken authorization and business-logic flaws
  • APIs that reach further than the diagram shows
  • Grower data one request away from the wrong hands
Application & API security →
03

Targeted, patient intrusion

Actors who will spend months quietly working toward the formula.

The problem

Targeted, patient intrusion

IP theft isn’t a smash-and-grab. It’s a foothold, then patience: a phished researcher, a quiet pivot, standing access nobody revoked, months of looking like a normal user. Anomaly detection built for noisy attacks has little to grip. We simulate the patient adversary end to end, not the opportunist.

  • A foothold held quietly for months
  • Standing access that looks like a normal user
  • The patient adversary, simulated end to end
Red team engagements →
04

Partners & CROs

The research partners, contract labs, and vendors your data flows through.

The problem

Partners & CROs

Research rarely stays inside one company. It moves to contract labs, field-trial partners, and software vendors, and each one holds a copy of something valuable and a connection back to you. A questionnaire won’t tell you what a compromised partner could reach. We map the trust and prove the blast radius.

  • Contract labs and field-trial partners hold copies
  • Partner connections back into your systems
  • Blast radius when a partner is breached
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05

Lean security, prized target

A high-value IP target defended by a team built for a smaller threat.

The problem

Lean security, prized target

AgriTech firms carry nation-state-grade IP with mid-market security teams. There’s no budget to defend everything evenly, and no need to. We concentrate the test on the crown jewels and the paths to them, and tell you plainly what you can leave for later.

  • High-value IP, mid-market security budget
  • No capacity to defend everything evenly
  • Effort concentrated on the crown jewels
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06

Generic testing misses the jewels

A checklist test spreads thin and sails past the few systems that actually matter.

The problem

Generic testing misses the jewels

A scan-everything, report-everything engagement treats your formulation database and your printer queue as equals. It won’t. The value here is concentrated, and so should the test be. We scope to the assets that would end the company if they leaked, and go deep there.

  • A checklist weights everything the same
  • Value is concentrated; the test should be too
  • Scoped to what would end the company
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How an attacker gets in

How an attacker reaches the formula

There’s never just one way in. A real engagement maps the routes from a phished researcher or an exposed platform to the repositories where the IP lives. Stall one path and a patient attacker loops back and tries another.

EntryFootholdPivotEscalateObjectivePhishingresearcher inboxGrower platformpublic APIPartner / CROcontract labStolen credscredential dumpPublic appinternet-facingCorporate ITuser hostAgriTech platformapp serverR&D networklab systemsIdentityAD · SSOCloud data lakeresearch storeSource & data reposmodels · codeResearch databasestrial dataFormulationsgenetics · IPR&D datatrials · resultsthe route taken this runother possible routesloop back to go again

What you get: a ranked shortlist of the fixes that cut the most routes to your formulations and research data first, so the spend protects what would end the company.

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How we help

Here’s how we help agritech & crop science.

The work that fits your stack, your threats, and the regulators you answer to.

Red team engagements

Simulate the targeted theft of your IP, end to end.

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Application & API security

The AgriTech platforms and APIs that carry the asset.

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Penetration testing

Test the systems that hold your research data.

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Incenter, continuous

Keep watch on the crown jewels continuously.

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Regulation by regulation

The rules you answer to, and how we test for each.

IP protection is the business case here more than any single regulation. We test the systems that hold your research the way an adversary after it would, and prove what they could reach.

StandardWhat it expectsHow we test it
Trade-secret protection
Reasonable measures to keep a secret secret — the legal test for trade-secret status (e.g. DTSA).
We test whether those measures actually stop someone reaching the formulation or genetics.
NIST CSF
Identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover across the assets that matter most (CSF 2.0).
We test the protect and detect controls around your R&D crown jewels, not the estate evenly.
ISO 27001
A working ISMS with controls proven effective, including technical vulnerability management (Annex A 8.8).
Penetration testing that gives the auditor evidence and finds what matters.
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