Securing What Feeds Us
· 35 min · Episode 54
Episode Securing What Feeds Us
In this episode, Bryson Bort talks with Kristin King, technologist, environmental manager, and host of the Bites and Bytes podcast, on why food and agriculture remain a dangerously overlooked piece of critical infrastructure. Kristin explains how human emotional responses drive social engineering, how rapidly expanding OT and connected tech in farms, factories, and fisheries create new attack surfaces, and what the JBS ransomware attack reveals about cascading risks from animal welfare to empty grocery shelves. She also offers a preview into her forthcoming book Securing What Feeds Us, outlining a path from today’s cyber-physical vulnerabilities toward better policy, shared language, and a new generation of “food cybersecurity” practitioners.
“We are creating the potential for a foodborne illness to happen from a cyber attack that may not be noted,” Kristin said.
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