Securing a food-tech startup before the first audit
A founder on building controls early enough to pass enterprise due diligence, without the overhead sinking a twelve-person company.
The global association helping food companies across all ten sectors defend the supply chain against cyber attack.
A secure food supply is as vital as clean water and steady power — and today it is under attack.
CSAFI exists so that no food producer faces cyber threats alone. As a nonprofit coalition we unite industry, government and technology partners to defend every link of the chain — from farm gate to dinner table.
In just a few years, the food industry went from “that won’t happen to us” to counting the losses in the headlines.
A plant goes dark.
A ransom gets paid.
A quarter of revenue is gone.








CSAFI is a nonprofit, mission-driven cybersecurity association advancing food industry cybersecurity across the global food ecosystem. We unite food manufacturers, agriculture leaders, government agencies, technology providers, researchers, and policymakers to strengthen cyber resilience through trusted intelligence, practical resources, industry collaboration, and operational guidance that helps protect the global food supply chain from evolving cyber threats.
We bring together food manufacturers, agriculture, government, technology providers, and cybersecurity experts to share trusted intelligence, practical resources, and proven strategies that help strengthen cyber resilience and protect the global food supply chain from emerging cyber risks.
We envision a future where every organization across the food supply chain has the knowledge, partnerships, and cybersecurity capabilities to operate with confidence, protect critical infrastructure, and keep the world's food systems safe, resilient, and trusted.

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Candid, on-the-record chats between a CSAFI host and the people defending the food supply — thought leaders, operators and researchers. Hover to pause, or steer with the arrows and dots.
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Hear from the members, learners and leaders defending the food industry — in their own words, on the wins, the roles secured and the resilience they built with CSAFI.
The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s hub for the Food & Agriculture critical-infrastructure sector: advisories, toolkits and the sector risk-management agency guidance.
The foundational framework for managing cybersecurity risk — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover. The common language most food-industry security programmes build on.
SANS Institute’s library of industrial control-system security whitepapers, posters and the ICS security controls — practical, defender-focused material for OT teams.
Trusted cybersecurity experts powering food industry resilience




What leaders say
Perspectives from the leaders, builders and thinkers working to keep the world’s food supply secure.
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
A ransomware scare on our packaging line could have shut us for a week. The CSAFI incident playbooks meant we contained it in hours, not days.
David Chen
VP Operations, Harvest Grain Co.
Being part of a coalition that actually understands cold-chain and OT risk — not just generic IT — is what keeps us at the table year after year.
Priya Nair
Head of Cyber Resilience, FreshRoute Logistics
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