Information security of food security

With the rapid development and frequent application of information and communication technology (ICT) in different industrial sectors, the production and manufacturing process relies more on ICT. ICT significantly increases the quality of service and productivity while it comes together with information security risks. As an essential part of a nation and economy, agriculture is provided with many ICT applications. ICT greatly contributes to the weather climate forecast, pest or disease prediction and so on to improve crop yields and food safety. The revolution of the fourth industry accelerates the application of ICT in agriculture and the development of smart agriculture. Smart agriculture is highly based on ICT to improve productivity and reduce waste, loss, and cost, such as big data, sensors, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and so on. All these changes and applications of ICT bring together information security risks. Based on the literature review and content analysis as research methodology, this paper concluded that information security risks are serious and inevitable in agriculture or food security. Therefore the need for information security risks management is significant in agriculture and food security.