Supply Chain Attack

In traditional security architectures, organizations focus on their own applications, infrastructures, and systems to safeguard their data. Organizations used to achieve this by establishing and hardening perimeter security solutions. Through these logical and physical perimeter securities, they control the access to their users and applications and try to stop security threats to their networks and systems. This approach is no more valid due to the proliferation of different computing paradigms such as cloud computing and other emerging technologies.

Cybersecurity is no more an issue of the perimeter and datacenter security but an issue that spans many boundaries. One recent security threat that perimeters security solutions and other security solutions has no control over is the supply chain based cyberattack.

A surge in supply chain cyberattacks have proved the limitations of the traditional approaches to deal with cybercriminal’s determination and resolute to attack organizations. Meaning, security loopholes are coming from the very software and hardware components that house and process the data itself. This implies that, organizations should be diligent in their procurement and shipment of hardware and software in order to stop security threats that come through the supply chain. Every destination and route of devices and systems should be known before deployed in the datacenters and the clouds.

The pedigree and custodians of every component should be known and security threats through side channels should be continuously monitored and maintained.

Supply chain is nowadays one of the main security threats to information systems and should be treated with precautionary and strategic measures. Similar to social engineering, phishing and other attacks, supply chain security risks are on the rise and demand consideration in security control developments.