Are your supply chains ‘geopolitically elastic’? Analysts think they should be
Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) must proactively embrace a geopolitically elastic supply chain strategy to support their organisations’ growth objectives, according to boffins at Gartner. An elastic supply chain capability, which can expand or contract supply in response to geopolitical risks, provides supply chain organisations with greater flexibility and efficacy than operating from a single […]
Latest Digital Catapult collab looks to improve supply chain security
Digital Catapult has announced the technology businesses that will be joining the Made Smarter Innovation Digital Supply Chain Hub programme to apply deep tech solutions to bolster the resilience of national supply chains. Each company will receive funding of up to £150,000 to address one of three supply chain challenges in cybersecurity, carbon management, and data […]
Transforming supply chain performance and security – the SI opportunity
Supply chain disruption is predicted to cost organisations around the world an average of US$184 million per year and demand is surging for better end to end visibility to improve resilience and response to disruption. While IoT has transformed supply chain visibility over the past decade, only 15% of the world is covered by terrestrial […]
Securing data Value
Perimeter security is flawed on many levels. Not only are businesses in every industry routinely breached but this model provides the same level of security for all data, irrespective of its value. As a result, when hackers are able to access a network, identifying and extracting valuable data can take less than half a day. […]
Critical infrastructure security Q&A with McAfee’s Mo Cashman
Critical infrastructure and supply chains consist of networks and assets that form the backbone of society. Therefore, the fallout of an attack could be catastrophic. Across the globe, individuals have already experienced shortages of food, energy and other resources, and the inability to access critical healthcare services – despite this, it’s likely that the worst […]
How can the Defense Industrial Base better protect against cybersecurity weaknesses in the supply chain?
By Thomas Lind, Co-Head of Strategic Intelligence, BlueVoyant Securing the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is a key national security objective of the United States. The task is challenging: it means securing a multi-tiered, interlinking supply chain hundreds of thousands of companies long, ranging from machine shops of a few dozen employees to billion-dollar prime contractors. […]
Why you could risk your cyber security through the supply chain
Collin Robbins, Managing Security Consultant, Nexor SMEs to multinational corporate companies experience cyber attacks on an almost daily basis. The majority of the attacks and data breaches can be found coming from the same place – through the supply chain, where security can become weak and mismanaged, or directly through people that work as part […]
