"Over 90% of Firms Suffered Supply Chain Breaches Last Year"

Researchers at BlueVoyant discovered that 93% of global organizations have suffered a direct breach due to weaknesses in their supply chains over the past year. The cybersecurity services company polled 1200 IT and procurement leaders responsible for supply chain and cyber-risk management from global companies with 1,000+ employees to compile its report: Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem.  The researchers also found that the average number of breaches experienced in the past 12 months grew from 2.7 in 2020 to 3.7 in 2021, which is a 37% year-on-year increase. The researchers stated that although the percentage of companies that don’t consider third-party risk a priority has fallen from 31% last year to 13% in 2021, the number who admit they have no way of knowing if an incident has occurred in their supply chain rose from 31% to 38%. In addition, while 91% of respondents said budgets were increasing this year to help tackle the risk, investments don’t seem to be making an impact.

Infosecurity reports: "Over 90% of Firms Suffered Supply Chain Breaches Last Year"