On Tuesday 27th June in London, UK SASIG [the growing Security Awareness Special Interest Group] will present their seminar on Supply Chains : Confronting our Dependencies and their innate vulnerabilities. You can join the online panel sessions with further information here https://www.thesasig.com/calendar/event/23-06-27-supply/
Background Ransomware has dominated the cyber conversation over the last few years, but the issue with supply chains is likely to supplant it as the key challenge facing most organisations. We have already experienced the devastating impact of supply chain disruption caused by the pandemic. The pandemic highlighted our economic dependency on complex and often fragile supply chains that are vulnerable to disruption and nowhere near as robust as we had assumed.
The risk posed by supply chains is also evident in cyberspace where our reliance on third parties and our accelerated journey to digitalisation have exposed vulnerabilities enthusiastically exploited by bad actors. The disruptive impact of ransomware attacks on physical supply chains (Colonial Pipeline) or the consequences of a compromised SaaS product (SolarWinds) demonstrates how much we are vulnerable to this phenomenon.
Join the SASIG event in person or online to explore the implications of supply chains on our businesses, our dependency on them, the threat within them and the steps we can take to make ourselves and our suppliers more resilient.
Panel Session One: The Challenge with Supply Chains and Resilience
Facilitated by Christopher Oliver FBCI, Emeritus Vice Chairman Business Continuity Institute and writer of Industry Bets Practice Standards
Representatives: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Lloyds Banking Group and others
Panel Session Two: Making our Supply Chains more Resilient
Facilitated by Martin Smith MBE Chairman and Founder, The SASIG
Representatives: Dr Kristan Stoddart, Swansea University & Vincent Le Gallez (info), Associate Director, Armstrong Group
