Federal cybersecurity leaders are seeking to protect critical assets through supply chain security and new standards.
Cybersecurity threats are evolving just as fast as technology is, and federal cybersecurity experts are implementing supply chain strategies and security standards to help protect national critical infrastructure and connected devices as the threat landscape also evolves.
Strategizing security throughout the technology supply chain is a key way that agencies are approaching overall national security. This is especially the case amid major supply chain-related cybersecurity incidents that have occurred this past year, such as the SolarWinds breach.
“If I’m a threat actor and I want to get the most bang for my buck, and I can gain network access into a software company … if I can breach an update server or an entity that I know is used across the whole government or across the whole of the United States’ networks, I can use that as a jumping off point to attack a variety of organizations,” Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crime Unit Chief Matthew Swenson said during GovernmentCIO Media & Research’s National Security event Thursday.
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