Today’s interconnected business landscape has expanded operations to a global level, providing companies access to markets that were inaccessible 20 years ago. As such, companies are able to provide their products and services throughout much of the world. However, as operations have expanded, so have supply chains.
Today, it is common for products to travel the world during their assembly, with certain parts made in Asia, while other elements are assembled in various other continents, thousands of miles away. While this expanded supply chain can decrease cost and increase corporate margins, it also increases cyber risk.
As noted in ISACA’s recent white paper on supply chain resilience and business continuity, a company’s supply chain poses one of the greatest cybersecurity risks to daily operations, but a holistic approach, with proper management mechanisms in place, can increase cyber-maturity and reduce organizational risk.
In order to understand how to apply cyber-maturity to daily operations and supply chains, organizations must first have a comprehensive understanding of their global footprint. Gaining understanding of multi-national operations can prove rather…
