Agriculture 5.0 Cybersecurity: Monitoring Agricultural Cyber Threats with Digital Twin Technology

Digital twin (DT) technologies have undergone decades of evolution and now find diverse applications, including in the food and agriculture field. This paper investigates the potential advantages of integrating digital twin technologies into agriculture to enhance productivity, resilience, cybersecurity, and sustainability. The paper devolves into cost-effective and environmentally friendly digital twin-based cybersecurity solutions for Agriculture 5.0, aimed at facilitating their adoption by low-income, small, and medium-scale farmers. This adoption could bolster global food productions against cyber risks and enhance farmers’ livelihoods. The research explores various applications of digital twin technology within the concept of agriculture 5.0, evaluating their potential impacts on productivity, resilience, and sustainability. Moreover, it identifies challenges associated with deploying digital twins in agriculture, such as high costs, inadequate security in existing architectures, and the lack of standardized frameworks. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an innovative digital twin architecture tailored for monitoring cyber threats to Agricultural 5.0. The primary objective of the architecture is to effectively mitigate potential cyber threats and in turn reduce cyber risks, allowing for real-time control and implementation of countermeasures, as elaborated in subsequent sections of this paper.