Securing What Feeds Us

Podcast: Hack the Plant (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?) Episode: Securing What Feeds Us Pub date: 2026-10-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Bryson Bort talks with Kristin King, technologist, environmental manager, and host of the Bites and Bytes podcast, on why food and agriculture remain a dangerously overlooked piece of critical infrastructure. Kristin explains how human emotional responses drive social engineering, how rapidly expanding OT and connected tech in farms, factories, and fisheries create new attack surfaces, and what the JBS ransomware attack reveals about cascading risks from animal welfare to empty grocery shelves. She also offers a preview into her forthcoming book Securing What Feeds Us, outlining a path from today’s cyber-physical vulnerabilities toward better policy, shared language, and a new generation of “food cybersecurity” practitioners. “We are creating the potential for a foodborne illness to happen from a cyber attack that may not be noted,” Kristin said. Join us for this and more on this episode of Hack the Plan[e]t. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast represent those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of their employers. Hack the Plant is brought to you by ICS Village and the Institute for Security and Technology. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bryson Bort, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.