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In 2024, the global average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million, emphasizing the urgent need for cybersecurity in the dairy industry. With ransomware attacks escalating, dairy processors must adopt robust defenses and collaborate to safeguard against evolving threats.

Cybersecurity is a crucial component of maintaining a secure and efficient dairy plant. As hackers become more advanced and technology and artificial intelligence evolve, processors must employ best practices to ensure the security of their operations, data, products, and profits.

The prospect of cybercrime remains a never-ending, and increasingly dangerous, threat to dairy processors. Attackers are focusing more on critical infrastructures, leading to threats of food tampering and hacks into processing, transportation and storage systems that can result in food spoilage and, consequently, food poisoning and shortages.