KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In the 21st century, cybersecurity threats are a growing, technologically-advanced risk to global supply chains. Unfortunately, many supply chain managers continue to react to these threats in 20th-century ways.
“Managing Cyber Risks in Global Supply Chains: The Four Fundamentals,” the latest white paper from the Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI) in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is designed to help supply chain managers bring their supply chain cybersecurity into the 21st century. The paper focuses on best practices to reduce cyber risk across the end-to-end, integrated supply chain. Global Supply Chain Fellow Mike Burnette, editor of the paper, is confident its findings will boost supply chain and business leaders’ cybersecurity measures.
“Most cyber security papers focus on individual responsibility like protecting business assets through robust management of information,” he says. “The four fundamentals paper focuses on the critical work necessary to deliver the highest total value in the supply system.”
Based on interviews with cyber experts from more than 30 organizations, the paper…
