“All across Maersk headquarters, the full scale of the crisis was starting to become clear. Within half an hour, Maersk employees were running down hallways, yelling to their colleagues to turn off computers or disconnect them from Maersk’s network before the malicious software could infect them…”
So begins the story of what Wired calls “the most devastating cyber attack in history.”
While not all supply chain cyberattacks are this dramatic and dangerous, our supply chains are especially vulnerable to these types of attacks. Due to the inherent interconnected nature of supply chains, a security weakness in one link can compromise the functionality of the entire supply chain. In this article, I review seven supply chain security risks you should be aware of going into 2019.