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Annual ReportIndustry ResearchJuly 29, 2026
State of Food Industry Cybersecurity 2026
Our annual survey of 412 food manufacturers, processors and distributors across nine countries.
Executive summary
What we found
**Two thirds of respondents had at least one OT-affecting incident in the last
eighteen months**, and fewer than a third had rehearsed a response to one.
The gap is not awareness. It is that plant systems are rarely owned by anybody
with a security budget.
The three headline numbers
- 68% had an incident affecting production
- 31% had rehearsed a response
- 12% could produce a batch record without their systems
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