A new industry is emerging as a prime target for cyberattacks - Precision Agriculture, which incorporates satellite and digital systems into agriculture production. The Department of Homeland Security released a report listing threats to the industry as more and more ag-related businesses incorporate technology and multiple devices to production. Target data includes intellectual property, financial information and pricing, and manipulating equipment. In the United States, the average all-in cost of a data breach is over $8 million. Precision Agriculture is at risk if businesses do not implement safety measures to protect and encrypt their devices and data. 

XQ’s Zero-Trust Data Protection service is the perfect solution for this industry. XQ is a cloud-based cybersecurity service that provides quantum-safe encryption and transit of data to/from devices, systems, and applications at the “edge” of the Internet. Based on a Zero-Trust security model, it’s distributed into 3 parts, software that lives on, or within an app on, an edge device like a mobile phone or IoT device, a quantum random number generation server, and a security key/policy server. No component of the system can unlock the data by itself, making it extremely secure. Lightweight, fast and powerful, it provides data encryption even in apps that can’t do so natively. Learn more about XQ here.