COVID-19 has added an element of supply chain disruption to an industry already contending with debilitating data breaches that cause billions of dollars of damage. As organizations around the world move to the cloud, network perimeters continue to disappear, and more attack surfaces are exposed. Supply chains across all industries become more vulnerable to cybercriminals and nation-state hackers and, therefore, more easily infected.
Commercial organizations, on average, have over 1,000 vendors in their supplier ecosystem, and 82% of those have suffered a data breach in the past year. This alarming statistic is underscored by the fact that a third of organizations lack the ability to know if or when their supply chain has been breached, leaving them exposed to deal with consequences in the aftermath, when it is often too late to mitigate the damages.