Rising Third-Party Supply Chain Risks During COVID: Risk Mitigation Plan
COVID 19 has thrown up multiple challenges for security practitioners. With most employees working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's more important than ever for businesses to ensure that their third-party providers have adequate business continuity plans to provide uninterrupted service.
It's critical to ask and revalidate if our suppliers' business continuity plan is adequate to sustain our operations and understand our stated objectives.
We typically think of supply chain attacks as stealthy attacks on hardware components, such as malware on laptops and network devices. Still, the supply chain attack was an attack on a service provider cannot be ruled out.
This session will discuss:
- How should the risk framework of supply chain vendors evolve;
- The risks posed by different kinds of vendors;
- How to redesign SLAs with third parties
