Cyber security
James Moore
Steph Charbonneau, Senior Director of Product Strategy, HelpSystems, explains why the expansion of business supply chains can result in cyber security vulnerabilities to those involved – and provides advice on how to guard against the threat.
Business ecosystems have expanded over the years owing to the many benefits of diverse, interconnected supply chains, prompting organizations to pursue close, collaborative relationships with their suppliers. However, this has led to increased cyber threats when organisations expose their networks to their supply chain and it only takes one supplier to have cyber security vulnerabilities to bring a business to its knees. To this point, governments around the world have highlighted supply chains as an area for urgent attention in tackling cyber risk in the coming years.
Looking beyond your own perimeter
Over the last few years, many organisations have worked hard to improve their cyber defenses and are increasingly “harder targets”. However, for these well-defended organisations, now the greatest weaknesses in their defences are their suppliers, who are typically less well defended but with whom they…
