Industries · Agriculture → Smart equipment & field OT

A tractor is a computer now. It should take orders only from you.

Precision equipment, telemetry, and remote-support links run the acreage on schedule. We test the machines and the fleet platform they report to the way an attacker would ride that same connection, carefully, without ever taking the harvest offline.

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The problem

What smart equipment & field ot is up against.

01

Connected machinery

Precision-ag equipment, telemetry, and the remote access that keeps a fleet running.

The problem

Connected machinery

A modern tractor or harvester is a networked computer with a cellular modem, GPS guidance, and a remote-support channel. The link that lets a dealer diagnose it from town is the same link an attacker rides. We test the machine, its telemetry, and the platform the fleet reports to, not just the office behind them.

  • Cellular telemetry and remote-support channels
  • GPS guidance, controllers, and firmware on the machine
  • The fleet platform every machine reports to
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02

Remote & vendor access

The standing remote access dealers, OEMs, and integrators hold into your equipment and network.

The problem

Remote & vendor access

Support depends on outside parties keeping a way in, and that access is rarely scoped, rotated, or watched. One compromised dealer or integrator account inherits a path onto the farm network and the machines on it. None of that access is new; what nobody tracks is how far a stolen dealer login now reaches.

  • OEM and dealer standing remote access
  • Shared or reused support credentials
  • Vendor access nobody scoped or revoked
Third-party risk →
03

Uptime as a constraint

Systems where a careless test, or a real attack, stops the operation mid-season.

The problem

Uptime as a constraint

Harvest doesn’t pause for a maintenance window, so a test that knocks a line down is as costly as the attack it was meant to prevent. We work the way OT has to be worked: passive first, uptime and safety as hard limits, and a hands-on senior wherever automation shouldn’t be trusted to fail safe.

  • No downtime window during the season
  • Passive-first, uptime as a hard limit
  • Seniors, not scripts, near safety systems
Humans in the loop →
04

Farm-management platforms

The apps and APIs that tie growers, agronomists, and equipment together, field to cloud.

The problem

Farm-management platforms

Data flows from field to cloud through a stack of third-party platforms and APIs, each trusting the next. A weakness in one becomes a way into your operation and your data. We test the connections and the blast radius when the platform that’s breached is the one you rely on.

  • Farm-management platforms and grower APIs
  • Data moving field-to-cloud through third parties
  • What a compromised grower platform reaches
Application & API security →
05

Lean team, wide surface

A small team defending offices, field OT, and a fleet of connected machines at once.

The problem

Lean team, wide surface

Ag operations run lean, and the same handful of people who keep the office running also own the OT, the fleet, and everything wired to them. There’s no room for a tool that needs a team to babysit it. We focus the effort where a real attacker would actually go, and tell you what you can safely leave alone.

  • One small team, offices to field OT
  • No capacity to babysit shelfware
  • Effort aimed where attackers actually go
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06

Generic testing misses field OT

Field equipment on CAN and ISOBUS doesn’t fail the way an office network does, and a corporate scanner never sees it.

The problem

Generic testing misses field OT

Point a network scanner at a guidance controller mid-field and you either learn nothing useful or you fault it — and a faulted machine is a stopped machine inside a harvest window that won’t wait. Equipment on ISOBUS and CAN doesn’t answer to probes built for a corporate LAN, and a templated engagement walks straight past the handful of things that would actually take a machine over. We scope to your equipment, the links it runs on, and a calendar you can’t move.

  • Machine buses don’t answer to LAN probes
  • A templated scan misses the machine-takeover paths
  • Scoped to your equipment and your season
How we test →

How an attacker gets in

A connected machine, a dealer’s support login, a phished office account — each is a different way onto the same network, and an attacker who hits a wall on one route simply backs up and takes the next. A real engagement maps all of them to the systems that actually run the operation.

EntryFootholdPivotEscalateObjectivePhishingoffice inboxVendor accessdealer · OEMTelemetry linkmachine modemStolen credscredential dumpFarm office ITadmin hostMachine controllerfield OTRemote-support hostvendor jump boxFlat farm networkIT · OT togetherFleet platformtelematics cloudDomain adminActive DirectoryOT controllersPLC · guidanceFleet haltedoperation stopsOperations controldata · commandsthe route taken this runother possible routesloop back to go again

What you get: a ranked shortlist of the fixes that close the most routes to your fleet and your operation first, so the fixes you make first are the ones that keep the machines running.

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How we help

Here’s how we help smart equipment & field ot.

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

OT-aware penetration testing

Handled with care for the systems that can’t simply be taken down.

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OT / ICS expertise

The same uptime-first discipline we bring to the plant floor.

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Third-party & vendor risk

The dealer and OEM access that reaches your machines.

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Incenter, continuous

Watch the connected surface as it changes.

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Regulation by regulation

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

As recognized critical infrastructure, agriculture inherits incident-reporting and engineering expectations. We test to them with uptime and safety as hard constraints, and escalate to hands-on seniors where automation shouldn’t go.

StandardWhat it expectsHow we test it
CIRCIA
Covered critical-infrastructure entities report significant cyber incidents within 72 hours and ransom payments within 24.
We rehearse detection and the reporting decision so the clock doesn’t start on guesswork.
IEC 62443
Zones, conduits, and security levels for industrial automation and control systems.
We test the boundaries between field OT and IT, and whether they actually hold.
NIST 800-82
Securing operational technology with availability and safety as the priorities.
OT-aware testing that treats uptime and safety as hard constraints, passive-first.
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