Cybersecurity in the food industry
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In companies, the protection of data and their own infrastructure is becoming increasingly important.
Information protection is particularly important for companies in the food industry, if only to comply with regulatory requirements. Ensuring food safety and hygiene and the correct labeling of products are just a few examples of the decisive impetus from a legal perspective to protect data and infrastructure.
In the event of an incident, your company's existence is at risk.
With the European Union's new NIS 2 Directive ("The Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive"), companies are now also obliged to increase measures to protect against cyber attacks, establish stricter security standards and keep their IT systems up to date at all times.
This directive is to be transposed into national law by the member states by October 17.
Is your company one of those with an annual turnover or annual balance sheet of over €10 million or 50 or more employees?
Then the NIS 2 Directive will most likely affect you.
The most important NIS-2 fields of action for companies, including those in the food industry, are
- Comprehensive risk assessment of sensitive goods, gap analysis and initiation of measures
- Incident contingency plan for business continuity and regular backups
- Security of IT systems (including ensuring documentation obligations along the supply chain)
- Proof of implementation and reporting obligations (early warning, assessment, final report)
- Training and sensitization of employees
- Concepts for access control and secure passwords
Compliance with the NIS 2 directive is not only a legal obligation, but also a decisive measure to ensure business continuity and your customers' trust in your products.
Many companies have already addressed this issue on their own initiative and taken appropriate measures.
Take the opportunity to optimize your cyber security at an early stage and prepare for the new requirements.
Start implementing a robust security strategy today, if necessary together with a suitable partner, to strengthen your position in the food industry in the long term.
Note: This article has been translated using a computer system without human intervention. LUMITOS offers these automatic translations to present a wider range of current news. Since this article has been translated with automatic translation, it is possible that it contains errors in vocabulary, syntax or grammar. The original article in German can be found here.
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