TODAY’S typical enterprise is being inundated with vast volumes of confidential data and intellectual property traversing its ecosystem. Of course, understanding the flow of data moving across a supply chain has always been critical to gauging supply chain risk. But in today’s ecosystems, those data flows are becoming increasingly complex and opaque. Amid rapid advances in technology, the variety and number of threats and vulnerabilities to business data is growing, and amongst that, third party incidents are on the rise.
As challenging as it is today, identifying ecosystem risk is critical to understanding the potential threat to your organization. Clarity on the following is critical:
Your organizations place in the ecosystem. The organization must understand its internal and external environments and determine its mission-critical information assets, where they exist and how they flow across this system. This will enable a risk-based approach that’s solidly focused on protecting all critical information.
Data sharing. With threats and risks in this model being significantly different, one supplier’s impact on clients, upstream or downstream, can now…
