Securing An Agri - Food Marketplace: An Implementation of a Robust Security Layer with API Gateway Integration

As food safety is undergoing through significant challenges due to recent food scandals, and the consumers demands for products of higher quality is increasing, the need for better knowledge of the food production processes and adoption of data sharing practices in the product and supply chain management are emerging. To address those issues, data sharing platforms have been introduced as essential tools for creating high value from data with secure and mutually beneficial multi-partner data sharing fascilitation. Blockchain technology, through its inhereted distributed nature can help to build trust mechanisms to enhance transparency and security dimension of food chains. In this work we propose a novel security mechanism for proper authentication and authorization when accessing resources through an agrifood data platform. Our proposed methodology aims to deliver sophisticated backbone service capabilities that will enable trusted, secure, automated, robust and controlled data transactions for food certification to all food sector businesses that demand easy, fast, and actionable access to variegating food safety data from multiple devices and in various settings.