Smart Farming May Increase Cyber Targeting Against US Food and Agriculture Sector

Citation
FBI, Smart Farming May Increase Cyber Targeting Against US Food and Agriculture Sector (Mar. 31, 2016) (full-text).

Overview
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) assess the Food and Agriculture (FA) Sector is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks as farmers become more reliant on digitized data. Although precision agriculture technology (a.k.a. smart farming) reduces farming costs and increases crop yields, farmers need to be aware of and understand the associated cyber risks to their data and ensure that companies entrusted to manage their data, including digital management tool and application developers and cloud service providers, develop adequate cybersecurity and breach response plans.