What is supply chain security?
Have you ever thought about how hackers and cyber criminals get into some of the world’s most lucrative brands?
It seems even when these large organisations spend hundreds of thousands to keep themselves secure, they can still find themselves falling short.
Whilst it’s very possible that these large organisations could be directly breached through a ransomware, DDoS or any other type of attack.
Sometimes, cyber criminals can find a smaller business who work with the larger organisation in some capacity and hack the smaller business to get an entry point to the larger organisation.
This is Supply Chain Security, where cyber criminals initially breach the target business’s vendors instead of the target business, in order to get into the target business through the backdoor. This is often also referred to as a third party breach or a backdoor breach.
Often you’ll find the target business is a large organisation who spends a significant amount of their budget on cyber security and the vendor, usually a smaller business, does not spend anywhere as much on cyber security – if at all.
The UK Government defines micro-businesses as firms that have around 0–9 employees and small businesses as firms that have around 10–49 employees. If you fall under these two brackets, it’s incredibly important to understand how you can prevent your small business getting caught up in a much larger organisation’s breach.
Likewise, if you’re a larger organisation, you don’t want a breach to your vendors to cause a breach in your organisation. Read More
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