Kristin Demoranville

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Bites and Bytes Podcast · How Cybersecurity is Reshaping Food Safety with Rick Biros · 14 Oct 2024 podcast

He'll also lead a nationwide search for a chief food safety officer to succeed him. In addition to his advisory role, Frank will chair the Boar's Head Food Safety Advisory Council. This council includes independent, industry-leading food safety experts who will help guide the company in adopting enhanced food safety programs.

If you're interested in hearing more from Frank, he will also be speaking at the Food Safety Consortium this year, where he'll be covering the topics of listeria and food processing environments. So stay tuned for what's sure to be a very insightful session. Now back to my chat with Rick. But I do remember, and I'm sure you saw it, they did post for the new head of food quality for Borsad.

And I was like, is it too soon? I mean, they obviously need the help. But I thought, wow, whoever takes that role better have mixed in. Some of the heroes. They will be.

Uh-huh.

That'd be one hell of a speaker if you could get them next year. You should totally. I mean, everybody needs to figure out who it is quickly and get that conversation going. But there are those in the industry that are like... Yeah, and I think that there are so many unsung heroes that are in the food safety space anyways.

It's a privilege to stand around these people because you know that they have prevented massive disasters. And I think that's why I gravitate towards... The food industry more than I have in any other industry is because it's not just about safeguarding data, it's about safeguarding lives. And you can always feel good about waking up in the morning for that reason.

And not that I'm saying anybody who just worries about data doesn't have a reason to get up, but that extra little like good of humanity and the good of the planet, like that feels really good. You know, it helps you charge up the hill a little bit faster. I really appreciate this, Rick, because first of all, I've learned a lot. So thank you very much.

I always love when I learn things on the podcast. I want to close out with what are your top few things that you think are very misunderstood in the food safety side? Because I have a lot of listeners that are in the operational technology space, cybersecurity, IT. I got a whole gamut of people who listen.

But what do you want people to know that they're misunderstanding, especially since you write a publication because you hear this and you know this?

And for all the cybersecurity IT listeners out there, is that ring true for you? Do you hear that all the time in your industry? Because we are definitely considered a cost center because we are expensive. There's so many similarities between food safety teams and cybersecurity and IT teams. It's ridiculous to me now.

Like we are all going through the same stuff, you know, in different ways, of course. But it's such a similar. So I'm so glad you said that, Rick, because I'm like, yeah, it should absolutely be. It's more of insurance, really, in my mind. That's how I see it. If it's not there, bad stuff's going to happen. And it's just part of business.

And I really wish we'd stop this whole like cost center versus profit, that kind of vibe in corporate because it creates those silos even more. And we need to cut through that crap inside of the food industry because it's not helping anybody. Ultimately, I think collaboration, as we've said throughout most of this episode, is really key to success and keeping food safe and people healthy.

So yeah, that's a good one. It's not a good one, but it's

Yeah, actually, that's a fair shout out. I mean, what can you do with the data you get out of things? Could that be a profit thing? Or could it be something that could be used in other places in the business? I can use that as an example with a lot of the cybersecurity tech that's out there that's monitoring and doing all these things. We might be able to tell a

there's been a contamination detected on the line before any of the food safety equipment does because we're watching the sensors differently so we'll see a tampering in a different place or we'll be able to tell if somebody's corrupted on one side from unauthorized entry which the food safety technology wouldn't necessarily tell you that's why it's a combined forces moment this is why i tell people make sure you check each other's audits like it's important

I do think we'll see that potentially coming into play at some point, at least I hope, because it's such great data. And then if you feed it through any type of machine learning, AI, I know everybody just cringed, but it's true. You'll have a different outlook on it as well, because we can't think of everything. Neither can the AI, but we can't either. So it's just more data, the better, right?

As I always say, if you can have it, it's good. So that's actually a really fair shout out. And this is why I'm going to say what I say, and I constantly say it all the time, Rick. I love that we're bringing more tech into the industry, but when people say tech, I'm I want people to also think cybersecurity. The software may not be made securely necessarily.

And they may expect you to be the ones that are responsible for the security. Are you going to be responsible for security? Or are you just going to buy it and then throw it at your teams and expect them to secure it when they don't even understand what it is or what it does? There needs to be like more conversation there.

So I love that everybody wants to bring tech in, but please just partner with people that can do it because otherwise you're going to have a whole new attack factor that could just create all these awful scenarios that I will explain to you if you come and listen to my talk at the consortium. It's just, it's so bad. Like we are, we're, a good friend of mine says we're right at boom all the time.

We really are sometimes. Just right at boom. Thanks, Rick. I really appreciate this. This is awesome. And I really do hope that people think about coming over to see the consortium. It's actually going to be in Crest City, Virginia this year, right?

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