Mitigating Risks in AgriTech Transformation
Industry:
Agriculture and Farming
Region:
North America
Technology:
Angular, Node.js, REST APIs and Azure Cloud
About the Client
A prominent player in the agriculture and farming industry in North America, the client manages large-scale organic farming operations and agrotech platforms. Their digital ecosystem includes farm management web portals, APIs for IoT-based soil and irrigation monitoring, and Azure-hosted infrastructure for supply chain and financial operations.
Challenges
With the increasing digital adoption of farming operations, the client faced significant security risks across both applications and infrastructure. Key challenges included:
- Exposure of APIs used by IoT devices for crop and irrigation data collection
- Weak authentication mechanisms in web-based farm management portals
- Misconfigurations in Azure services used for data storage and processing
- Lack of centralized visibility into vulnerabilities or compliance status for internal security governance
Solutions
Evoke Technologies implemented an end-to-end security testing engagement covering application, infrastructure, and cloud environments:
- Conducted Application Security Testing
- Executed Azure Infrastructure Security Assessments
- Integrated DevSecOps automation
Results
- Discovered and mitigated 19 critical and 41 high-risk vulnerabilities across apps, APIs, and infrastructure
- Achieved an 80% reduction in the external attack surface by securing exposed IoT API endpoints
- Enabled continuous security validation through integration with CI/CD pipelines, improving time-to-fix for critical issues by 45%
- Enhanced governance with centralized dashboards for tracking vulnerabilities, audit readiness, and SLA-based remediation
- Strengthened overall security posture in alignment with NIST 800-53 and CIS Controls, ensuring resilience against modern threats in agritech environments
