Kristin Demoranville
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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And I don't want that kind of wake up call because that, first of all, that means people might be hurt. But the other part is I don't want people who don't know talking about it in a manner of, I read an article, I read a book, so that's why I'm now an expert people. And I'm afraid of that happening in the food industry and the food supply.
That's something that really does make me upset and keeps me nervous.
Hello, listeners. It's time for today's breaking news segment, where we'll bring you up-to-date headlines from the food industry and examine how cybersecurity plays a role in these crucial issues. First, let's turn our attention to the Boar's Head food safety crisis.
Boar's Head, a well-established name in deli meats, is facing a severe public health crisis after the Listeria outbreak linked to their ready-to-eat products. Tragically, nine people have died and 57 others have been hospitalized, many who will suffer from lifelong complications as a result.
The recall of these products was issued, but that was only part of a much larger problem. Recently, inspection reports shed light on unsanitary conditions at one of their facilities, including the presence of mold, insect infestations, and leftover meat residue, which likely contributed to the contamination.
In response to this crisis, Boar's Head shut down the Virginia facility, discontinuing its Liverwurst product, and formed a Food Safety Council, composing of top experts to prevent future disasters.
Next, let's discuss the avian influenza outbreak. Since April of 2024, 14 human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza or bird flu have been confirmed.
These cases primarily affect poultry workers exposed to the infected birds. Though human cases remain rare, the virus has caused widespread concern within the poultry industry, leading to the culling of hundreds of thousands of birds to contain the outbreak.
In response, the USDA and CDC have heightened their surveillance efforts and reinforced biosecurity measures at poultry facilities nationwide. That's your breaking news update where food safety and cybersecurity converge. Stay tuned for more insights after the break.
I think the ability to be relatable and to find the ability to find common ground is what's probably the most important. I will say that food safety culture has adopted cybersecurity as part of its culture processes now because food defense is very similar to what we go through and in cybersecurity.
I do appreciate that I have been welcomed by that side of the house in terms of an ambassador for cybersecurity, because that's kind of why I look at myself when I'm an ambassador for cyber, because they don't know enough about it to do anything about it necessarily, but they need to be informed enough where they won't do harm.
And I do think that every cybersecurity professional, and this is my opinion, has that responsibility to be an ambassador for your sector of security. whatever that means. You are a representation of what that part of the sign of the house looks like. This is why the hacker in the hoodie has stuck so well and it's become this number of things for what a hacker is, is because it's easier.
It's easy for people to understand what that is. I constantly have to remind people that not all of us are hackers, that we actually, some of us are, you know, we talk about risk and we talk about system thinking and we talk about different ways to avoid being vulnerable and be resilient.
And I really, I want to leave our episode on a positive note because it's been a little, you know, we've been a little
harsh that's okay though i feel like you and i sort of especially are okay with being a little harsh but we need to really move away from recovery into resilience and i know that's like a hot button thing and i kind of need that every bell whistle on the marketing trail but i actually really do believe that that that you're going to get hit with an attack it's going to happen but can you survive it or you're not hit by an attack but your critical supplier is
Exactly. What happens when, you know, your counterpart, your partner gets hit? Is that going to affect you? Are you liable for that attack? There's questions there. I've had a lot of those questions recently of do you have strong security riders? The beef industry is worried about this because the GBS attack, they're still concerned about it.
They know that they need to work on their whole supply chain. But because everybody keeps focusing on boiling the ocean and not making that cup of tea, it gets really daunting. And I always say, let's start with the basics.
is your door of your house locked did you lock your windows is your alarm system on do you have a guard dog you know we go through kind of like the basics of that understanding and then i say do you feel like you have a window open upstairs it's not locked where is that in your facility do you have concerns and then that's where what you mentioned george the shame kind of comes in is getting people to realize that it's not a shameful moment to admit that you probably have something wrong or something's not done because we can just deal with it it doesn't have to be okay great congratulations yeah
Yeah. And I think that we should start throwing spaghetti at the wall, you know, and start seeing what's going to work and what's not going to work. I think it's not going to be a one size fits all that fixes the supply chain. I think a lot of people are looking for that silver bullet. And I'm just like, yeah, no, it's not going to be that.
It's going to be little increment fixes here and there, kind of like playing Tetris. You just kind of have to work through it. And I wish I had a silver bullet. I wish I could say like, this is the magical thing that will fix all of your needs. Like, I don't, I can't, there's nothing that I can ever come up with, probably be that anyways.
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