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A new study says that the supply chain is a magnet for cyber breaches.
A whopping 97% of firms have been impacted by a cybersecurity breach in their supply chain, a study by cybersecurity company BlueVoyant said.
And 93% admitted that they have suffered a direct cybersecurity breach because of weaknesses in their supply chain.
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Daniel Ennis, global head of threat intelligence and operations at BlueVoyant, speaks during the 2018 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in March 2018. (F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“Breaches … are still staggeringly high,” said Adam Bixler, global head of third-party cyber risk management at BlueVoyant, in a blog post.
“Focused attackers are continually scanning businesses for open vulnerabilities … and business trust relationships means that if a supplier is affected, it could affect an ‘upstream’ connection,” Bixler told FOX Business.
This is happening despite more awareness of the risks and the rising cybersecurity budgets to deal with it. But the complexity of the…
