Why supply chains are the weakest link in today’s cyber defenses

Despite years of warnings, supply-chain risk remains one of the most fragile and underestimated aspects of cybersecurity.

Many of this year’s most disruptive and high-profile cyber incidents shared one key factor; the attacker’s route into the target company was through a third-party provider.

A fundamental truth of cybersecurity is that you can’t control what you can’t see, and that risk multiplies when it stems from an external third-party provider, supplier or partner within your supply chain rather than inside the network.

Yet many organizations still rely on self-assessed questionnaires and outdated compliance certificates as proof of safety.

Until organizations can verify the security of every partner in real time, they’ll continue to depend on assumptions rather than assurance and ...