Supply Chain Cybersecurity to Evolve in 2019

“Security is only as strong as its weakest link,” Steve Durbin, Managing Director, ISF says. “Despite organizations’ best efforts to secure intellectual property and other sensitive information, limited progress has been made in effectively managing information risk in the supply chain.”

Too often, he adds, data breaches trace back to compromised vendor credentials to access the retailer’s internal networks and supply chain. Information shared in the supply chain can include intellectual property, customer-to-employee data, commercial plans or negotiations and logistics.