Cyber Awareness

Cyber Awareness

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
We all know how much we are using our computers and Smart phones down on the farm and we also know how much data gets transferred back and forth between your agribusiness and vendors, online specialists and so on. Well, Jeremy Hoffmann, Chair of the Cyber Security Program at Des Moines Area Community College says one area that is especially vulnerable is when farmers aren’t careful where their updates come from or try to get around proprietary software to cut cost. “ the problem exists between user and not only that but putting different software on their equipment to try and get around some proprietary things, it may be stabilized GPS it maybe stabilized information but also it could provoke a man in the middle attack where someone else is getting your data. You're getting the data but someone else may be collecting it at the same time.”

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

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