Cybersecurity
U.S. Agriculture Chief Urges Farm Co-Ops to Toughen Cyber Defenses
- Agriculture Secretary speaks after attack on Iowa grain co-op
- Ransom attack tests Biden warning against food-chain targets
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urged U.S. agricultural cooperatives to “harden” defenses against cyber attacks after Iowa’s New Cooperative Inc. was targeted in a ransomware attack last week.
“We want to make sure during this harvest that we don’t have any additional disruptions as a result of systems being hacked,” Vilsack said Wednesday in a speech to the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture’s annual meeting.