Digital Wolf

Digital Wolf

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
The amount of information farmers move around the internet has more than tripled. Jeremy Hoffmann, Chair of the Cyber Security Program at Des Moines Area Community College says the need for protecting our information needs to be a bigger priority than it is. One area Hoffmann says is especially vulnerable is when farmers aren’t careful where their updates come from or try to get around proprietary software to cut cost. Sometimes the data may be at risk not from the farmer or the manufacturer, but by a third-party entity who is tasked with managing data collected for the supply company. “as we saw with targets breach, it wasn't target that dropped the ball and allowed attackers to get into their network, it was actually an HVAC servicer who had poor hardware and encryption and things like that and they got in through them, a vendor.” Your security needs to evolve with your information. Data storage is no longer in your file cabinet, where you control who sees it. It is more like your file cabinet is unlocked and so is your front door, and the only one guarding it is a plastic army man. Your security is as important as your inputs and equipment.
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