Joseph McGarvey, Ph.D., C.I.S.S.P., has published several articles on critical infrastructure protection, ransomware threat mitigation, cybersecurity, and other topics. He has 14 years of critical infrastructure protection experience at North American Electric Reliability Corporation and six years of experience in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in the oil and gas transmission sector. As a Ph.D. Research Cyber Security Professor for the U.S. Air Force, Dr. McGarvey has researched and presented on a number of topics including space cybersecurity, space critical infrastructure, advanced cyber offensive techniques, threat intelligence and analysis, advanced cyber digital forensics, advanced security techniques, and countermeasures, and many others.
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically disrupted the food supply. This article seeks to explain the transcendent lessons of this national emergency, with the hope that being aware of them will help national decision-makers better prepare for next time. Our food systems, like the larger supply chain, will be challenged in the future with new kinds of disruptions, making it essential that mistakes are not repeated and that proactive, correct solutions are discovered and preparations made now.
