The Security Benchmark Sector Reports

sector / Agriculture, Food & Beverage

This sector includes those organizations reporting agriculture, farming, food production & processing, or food & beverage services as their primary market sector of business.

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Data from The Security Benchmark Report survey is broken down by sector in an effort to provide security programs with a meaningful comparison among programs in similar market sectors.

For The Security Benchmark Sector Reports, we break down data regarding security's roles, responsibilities and budgets by sector. In certain cases, sectors were combined to create a larger dataset. If a sector didn’t lend itself to combining and the dataset was too small, then that sector was excluded from having its own sector report page, but is included in the main report for all other calculations and comparisons.

For general data from all respondents, visit the main report page.

The Security Benchmark Report respondents in the Agriculture, Food & Beverage market sector were asked whether their 2023 security budgets Increased, Decreased or Stayed the same over 2022. All respondents in the sector reported an increase in security budget in 2023 when compared to 2022. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

The Security Benchmark Report respondents in the Agriculture, Food & Beverage sector reported an average of $98,000 in security-related spending last year. Information that appeared to be inaccurately reported was excluded from the calculation. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

We asked The Security Benchmark Report respondents which function their security organization reports to or resides within. Within the Agriculture, Food & Beverage market sector, the highest percentage of security teams reported to the Chief Risk or Legal Officer / Risk / Legal / General Counsel. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

The Security Benchmark Report participants within the Agriculture, Food & Beverage sectors were given a list of 36 roles and responsibilities that may fall under the security function at an organization and were asked for the level of responsibility the team has over that role within their enterprise. The above are the most common job responsibilities (in alphabetical order) that the security function within this sector reported as Owning / Leading. For this survey, Owning / Leading the responsibility means security both manages and funds the program. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

The Security Benchmark Report respondents were asked to report which geographic areas their security organization provides risk and security services. Respondents were able to choose as many geographic areas as applicable. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

In the Agriculture, Food & Beverage sector, 50% of Security Benchmark Report respondents reported a Decentralized structure of their security organization. Other in this data represents a security program structure comprised of both Centralized and Decentralized components. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

Within the Agriculture, Food & Beverage sectors, 75% of The Security Benchmark Report respondents reported having a security operations center (SOC) or global security operations center (GSOC) within their enterprise. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

The Security Benchmark Report respondents were asked how many contract and proprietary full-time equivalent (FTE) security officers and security guards they have within their enterprise. The average among all respondents in the Agriculture, Food & Beverage market sectors is reported here. Outliers or information that appeared to be inaccurately reported were excluded from the calculation. SOURCE: The Security Benchmark Report, November 2023

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