Recent high-profile cybersecurity incidents demonstrate that many companies now face platform security risk – risk to a group of technologies, infrastructure and resources that control or enable the provision of products and services through a system – regardless of industry or sector. Platform security risks are present whether the targeted platform is exclusively a technology platform or is a platform that consists of different components of which only some are “connected” and therefore prone to a cyberattack. Even seemingly “low tech” operations, like gas pipelines, likely include integrated, third-party technology software to improve efficiency of operations.
Today, virtually all companies rely on external technical solutions to effectively manage their businesses and keep a competitive edge. But the downside of incorporating new technology into business operations is that it creates new vectors for cyberattacks. This is true not just for data-driven tech companies but any company where the core products or services rely in any way on technology.
Platform-targeted attacks highlight the intrinsic vulnerabilities for today’s companies regardless of sector:…
