Riipen | ICT Ignite - Cyber Security for Inventory/Sales Management

ICT Ignite - Cyber Security for Inventory/Sales Management Software

Open

AgSights

Elora, Ontario, Canada

Erin Massender She / Her

Manager of Research and Innovation

(2)

Preferred learners

Anywhere

Academic experience

Skills

incident response cyber security incident reporting vulnerability

Project scope

What is the main goal for this project?: The main goal of this project is to plan, implement, manage, monitor and upgrade security measures for the protection of user data and systems for AgSights' bioLinks application. bioLinks is an Inventory and Sales tracking solution for Canadian agricultural businesses.

Working with bioLinks' Lead Full-Stack Developer, Learners will have the opportunity to apply their skills to contribute meaningful recommendations and improvements to bioLinks' CyberSecurity practices across a wide-range of infrastructures. bioLinks includes two web-applications written in Python and React, an iOS application, and an integration with WordPress/WooCommerce for e-commerce that communicate via extensive APIs. We also have integrations with popular payment processing and accounting softwares.
What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?: This will involve several different steps for the learners, including:

Analyzing the existing security measures implemented across bioLinks and offer suggestions for our security policy
Researching and implementing other security measures to protect data and systems, we are particularly interested in improving security of our WordPress WooCommerce integration, written in PhP, but there is an opportunity to work with Python, iOS and Linux systems as well.
Develop procedures to mitigate future CyberSecurity attacks
Detecting and analysing any incidents, review incident reporting, and create an incident response plan
What is the main goal for this project?: The main goal of this project is to plan, implement, manage, monitor and upgrade security measures for the protection of user data and systems for AgSights' bioLinks application. bioLinks is an Inventory and Sales tracking solution for Canadian agricultural businesses.

Working with bioLinks' Lead Full-Stack Developer, Learners will have the opportunity to apply their skills to contribute meaningful recommendations and improvements to bioLinks' CyberSecurity practices across a wide-range of infrastructures. bioLinks includes two web-applications written in Python and React, an iOS application, and an integration with WordPress/WooCommerce for e-commerce that communicate via extensive APIs. We also have integrations with popular payment processing and accounting softwares.
What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?: This will involve several different steps for the learners, including:

Analyzing the existing security measures implemented across bioLinks and offer suggestions for our security policy
Researching and implementing other security measures to protect data and systems, we are particularly interested in improving security of our WordPress WooCommerce integration, written in PhP, but there is an opportunity to work with Python, iOS and Linux systems as well.
Develop procedures to mitigate future CyberSecurity attacks
Detecting and analysing any incidents, review incident reporting, and create an incident response plan

Supported causes

Responsible consumption and production

About the company

http://agsights.com/

2 - 10 employees

Agriculture, Technology

AgSights is a member cooperative that has been in business since 1993. We focus on bridging intelligence among producers, retailers, and consumers to bring 3 core values to agri-food businesses and their products; integrity, trust and value. AgSights designs, builds and supports innovative software solutions stemming from our customer needs.