{"id":3677,"date":"2024-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmingfuturefood.com\/feb2025\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:59:17","slug":"cyber-security-is-major-knowledge-gap-in-ag-tech-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmingfuturefood.com\/feb2025\/cyber-security-is-major-knowledge-gap-in-ag-tech-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber security is major knowledge gap in ag tech rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyber security is proving a blind spot as smart farming technologies are implemented around the world, according to a Norwegian expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In research<\/a> presented at the International Symposium on Technology and Society, Karianne Kj\u00f8nas said that there is a lack of observational work looking specifically at cyber security when digital technologies<\/a> are being used by farmers, despite clear risks to their livelihoods through malicious attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the research on cyber security in agriculture to date is either technical or theoretical, said Kj\u00f8n\u02daas, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. This is spite of the fact that that precision farming relies on highly connected Internet of Things technologies, which use precise information to guide decision-making on farms, so are particularly vulnerable to manipulation by outsiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the use of technological solutions in farming increases, so does the dependency, and at the same time there is a significant need on the level of individual farms to improve knowledge and cyber security,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmer perspectives largely absent<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research to date has highlighted state of the art options that could be used by farmers to protect network-connected agricultural technologies. For example, blockchain can help<\/a> preserve privacy for farmers, she noted, while deep learning models can help detect denial of service attacks, which make networked technologies unavailable to their users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, she stressed that \u201cthe sheer number of technologies means that the available research is far from enough to cover all aspects,\u201d and there is a notable lack of studies that address farmer perspectives on cyber security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause there is so little research on this topic, there is not much that can be gleaned about cyber security knowledge of the farmers in general,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing theory to the field<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a dearth of studies which touch on the practical implications of cyber-attacks for farmers and the broader agricultural supply chain, Kj\u00f8nas said, which can include invalidating certification processes, affect crop prices and even manipulate information which can destroy crops. A number of studies also make generalisations about potential impacts, without considering the diversity of farming practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are a lot of opportunities for future work on cyber security in agriculture technology,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe heavy use of technology and increasing dependence means that there is a lot more knowledge to obtain, both on the technology itself, and on the use of the technologies, their dependencies, and the consequences of cyber-attacks to different components or whole systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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