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June 2021

How do your employees respond to strangers on company premises?

June 2021

Measure your Food Defense culture with an intrusion test
 
Bringing safe products on the market is top priority in the food industry. While intentional contamination of food may happen, it is (fortunately) not a frequent phenomenon. Nonetheless, it must receive some necessary attention. On the one hand, it may have a devastating impact on your company (in terms of reputation, public health and financial damage). On the other hand, customers and certification bodies impose requirements in the area of Food Defense which a food company has to meet. How do you boost Food Defense culture in your company?
May 2021

Your production environment up for grabs for cybercriminals?

May 2021

Embrace industry 4.0 in a cyber-secure way

Have you got an IT & OT cyber policy? Congratulations! Then you belong to the lucky few: only 34% of Belgian industrial manufacturing companies invest in this. Why should you have an OT policy?
 
February 2021, the operating system of a water treatment plant in Florida (USA) was hacked. The hackers were able to manipulate the water chemically. The amount of sodium hydroxide was increased one hundred times by the hackers, thus poisening the water supply of the entire city. Fortunately, the water treatment company was able to detect and undo the manipulation immediately.
 
How can you protect your production systems against unwanted (digital) manipulation?
April 2021

Parcel bombs explode at food and retail in Germany

April 2021

Security measures and awareness create a Food Defense culture
 
Our food companies pay increasingly more attention to the concept op Food Defense, which is a good thing. Its purpose is to better protect products, people and infrastructure against intentional acts. In any case, prevention is better than cure. Sometimes current events also make food industry security a high priority…