As organizations become more digitally connected to their vendors, partners and other third parties, they are quickly discovering that they ignore supply chain security at their peril. Supply chains connect manufacturing companies with logistics firms, transportation providers and others to get products and services onto our store shelves, and poor supply chain cybersecurity can break the chain.
Supply chain security risks at a glance
Data sharing and other connected collaboration is common between players in a supply chain, and these activities bring inherent risk. Everything from malware, ransomware and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to a simple application being compromised can be used in a supply chain attack.
The interconnected nature of the firms in a supply chain means attackers may only have to exploit one weak link in order to have far-reaching effects across multiple enterprises.
Supply chain risk examples
No industry is immune from supply chain cybersecurity threats. Two recent supply chain risk examples reinforced the importance of cyber supply chain risk management and supply chain security.
One attack-affected customers of a provider of networking tools called…
