Cybersecurity attacks in the food/beverage/agricultural industry often achieve notoriety because of the large sums of monies involved—usually in the millions of dollars—resulting from large ransomware demands and payments, plus the ensuing downtime while business and supervisory systems are offline. For example, according to an Xtalks June 22, 2023 blog by Sydney Perelmutter, senior food industry journalist, five ransomware demands in 2020 and 2021 made news due to multimillion dollar ransom demands: