Why are supply chain cyberattacks a growing trend within cybersecurity?
Modern, efficient supply chains can create vast economic and social benefits, but they also bring risks. Organizations can sometimes lose control of the software and physical components for the products they provide. This results in increased vulnerability to network intrusions, hacks, and more sophisticated cyberattacks, which puts information, critical infrastructure, and global supply chains at risk. Industries that make up the critical infrastructure sector—electric, oil and gas, waste and water—are more desirable targets. Although many companies in those sectors have robust security and can keep out potential enemies, doing so becomes more difficult when your enemies look like friends. That’s why third parties, usually vendors, are so at risk.