“Since the cyber attack occurred on the Arsoé de Soual on December 15, I no longer have access to the data of my exploitation on thetool herd management Synel. Everything is blocked. Goodbye to agile and intuitive tracking of each animal directly on my smartphone, we had to return to paper. I lose a quarter of an hour every statement of birth: you have to return to the office, print the form, complete it, date it, sign, scan and send the document to the EDE, whereas the declaration took less than a minute via the application. I am forcing myself to do it over time to ensure that I meet the maximum regulatory deadline of seven days. Like the majority of calvings of exploitation is concentrated in the fall, births are rarer during this period. This means fewer paper declarations, but deprives me of the possibility of grouping this load. The first sales of the year will take place in a few weeks. I don't know yet how this will happen.
“We therefore had to put aside technical herd monitoring assessments”
Not to mention the end-of-year reviews: we were not ready for such a step backwards. I have to manually find the entries and exits to finalize the inventory variations in the balance sheet. My advisor Cattle Growth no longer has access to the data either, so we had to put an end to the technical assessments: reproduction assessment (IVV, index, etc.), career assessment of the breeders, etc. Even while looking for possible written traces on the calendars and other supports, which takes a lot of time, we lack elements because everything was entered on Synel. However, these assessments are crucial for measuring the progress of breeding. Currently, only inseminators still have access to herd data on their software and can notify their interventions, although AI represents a very limited part of matings.
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Very little information is circulating on the state of health of the system, and on a date for a return to normal. We navigate by sight. I hope that the situation will recover quickly, and that I will be able to recover the history of my operation, including the genealogy of my herd registered in the herd-book. More broadly, this event is worrying because it highlights the vulnerability of our information system in the face of cyberattacks. »
-Key figures from the EARL Reflets de l'Adour (Landes): 85 ha, 60 blonde mothers from Aquitaine in grazing system and fattening of females, Label Rouge IGP Beef from Chalosse
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