Supply chains are on everyone's mind right now — from consumer-tech bottlenecks to talks of holiday-season toy shortages. Meanwhile, cyberattacks targeting elements of the supply chain have become increasingly common and impactful — making this area of security a top priority as organizations ensure their digital defense plans are ready for 2022.
Here's the thing, though: Supply chains are enormously complex, and securing all endpoints in your partner ecosystem can be a herculean challenge.
On Thursday, October 21, 2 members of Rapid7's Research team — Erick Galinkin, Principal Artificial Intelligence Researcher, and Bob Rudis, Chief Security Data Scientist — sat down to get the perspectives of 2 industry panelists: Loren Morgan, VP of Global IT Operations, Infrastructure and Delivery at Owens & Minor; and Dan Walsh, CISO at VillageMD. They discussed the dynamics of supply chain security, how they think about vendor risk, and what they're doing to tackle these challenges at their organizations.
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What is supply chain risk, anyway?
The conversation kicked off with a foundational question: What do we mean when we talk about supply chain risk? The answer here is particularly important, given how sprawling and multivariate modern-day supply chains have become.
Dan defined the concept as "the risk inherent in the way we ..
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