Introduction
Latteria Soresina is today one of the main Italian dairy cooperatives and a world leader in the production of Grana Padano PDO. The company combines tradition and innovation, maintaining a strong connection to the territory and focusing on sustainability and certified quality throughout the entire supply chain.
Il problema
The introduction of new digital technologies necessary for optimizing internal processes and delivering new services to customers opens new cyber risk scenarios. This requires Latteria Soresina to design and implement a robust cybersecurity policy in the broad sense of protecting critical infrastructures, with particular focus on the integrity of industrial assets, management of personal data privacy, and regulation and control of internal and external IT access.
The solution
Use of a methodology necessary to adopt cybersecurity procedures and techniques for managing IT infrastructures. In particular, the methodology includes:
Inventory of technological equipment present in the company’s plants.
Conducting a risk analysis according to industry standards.
Conducting a gap analysis with respect to the project objectives.
Support in the process of defining governance.
Support in the implementation of the action plan following the gap analysis.
Desired Impacts
It is possible to use communication, management, administrative, and commercial tools without fear of cyberattacks or compromising the operation of industrial assets.
A governance policy is introduced to manage operational and technological complexities.
The evolutionary design of the network complies with the Industry 4.0 paradigm.
Benefits for the company
Management costs are reduced thanks to the use of state-of-the-art IT technologies.
Operating margins increase, enhancing market competitiveness.