Protecting Food & Beverage Environments

Food & beverage CPS security involves protecting the physical, automated infrastructure that drives modern manufacturing plants and supply chains. This goes beyond standard IT security to secure plant-floor assets including Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), automated packaging lines, warehouse robotics, and critical building management systems (BMS) like industrial refrigeration loops.

In a hyper-connected manufacturing environment, threat actors can exploit vulnerable network access points to pivot laterally into core production systems. A breach targeting an MES or PLC can alter batch recipes, tamper with automated Track and Trace logs, or disable critical automated processes like Cleaning-in-Place (CIP/SIP) routines and temperature controls. This directly compromises Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (CCPs), leading to public health risks, mass product recalls, and severe brand damage.

Claroty utilizes Dynamic Discovery, allowing plant operators to leverage safe, active querying and existing industrial network infrastructure integrations. This eliminates the need to ship expensive physical hardware appliances or schedule intrusive maintenance windows, delivering day-one visibility across newly built or acquired processing hubs within hours.

Yes. Rather than forcing expensive equipment overhauls that squeeze tight manufacturing margins, Claroty shifts the paradigm to physical Exposure Management. The platform maps device purposes and deploys targeted compensating controls, surrounding legacy infrastructure with precise network micro-segmentation and rigorous behavioral monitoring to neutralize threats without inducing operational downtime.

As governments increasingly classify food production, logistics, and distribution networks as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), frameworks like the EU NIS2 Directive legally mandate comprehensive cybersecurity risk management for OT systems. While the US Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) focuses on food safety, its required preventative controls are heavily managed by automated OT systems. Claroty automatically maps facility-level OT, IoT, and BMS assets directly to global standards like ISA/IEC 62443 and the NIST CSF, generating automated proof packs to streamline audit readiness.