by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 24, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Emergency Response, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Public Health, Tariffs, Terrorism, The Future
Complacency breeds peril: The world changed for everyone on 9/11, including for farmers. Bob Norton says farmers must not replace due diligence with a belief that the federal or state government will stop all adversaries, since no agency has the resources and work...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Jun 29, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Threat Intelligence
Bob Norton has written extensively about the potential threat to food and agriculture being posed by North Korea. Quiet but very firm pressure on North Korea is being ramped up by both the U.S. and by China. Food defense, logistics and OIT security managers are urged...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 19, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Op Sec, Threat Intelligence
Employees actively circumvent cyber-security protocols: Researchers for Dtex Systems, a global insider threat protection company, have found that 95 percent of enterprises surveyed had employees who were actively circumventing corporate cyber-security protocols. Dirty...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 3, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Public Health, Terrorism, Threat Intelligence
Food defense professionals and management are urged to secure the chlorine stores that are ubiquitous in the food industry, ensuring careful industry control of cylinders and containers. The Food Defense Working Group received evidence this weekend confirming that...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 20, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Personnel Security, Process Security, Public Health, Terrorism
Mass food poisoning incidents in Egypt, India: As if we need another reminder of how serious food contamination (intentional or otherwise) can be, the New York Times reports that more than 3,300 children were hospitalized in Egypt last week after an outbreak of food...
