Supply Chain Cyber Resilience
Supply Chain Cyber Resilience is the ability of an organization and its supply chain to prepare for, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyber disruptions.
Here's a breakdown of the key components:
Supply Chain: This refers to the interconnected network of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in the creation and distribution of a product or service. This includes suppliers, vendors, contractors, and other third parties.
Cyber Resilience: This is the ability of an organization to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyberattacks and other disruptions. It goes beyond simply protecting against attacks to ensure business continuity and minimize the impact of incidents.
Key Aspects of Supply Chain Cyber Resilience:
Risk Identification: Understanding potential cyber threats and vulnerabilities throughout the supply chain.
Prevention: Implementing security measures to reduce the likelihood of cyberattacks on the supply chain.
Detection: Quickly identifying cyber incidents that occur within the supply chain.
Response: Having plans and procedures to respond to and contain cyber incidents effectively.
Recovery: Restoring normal operations quickly and efficiently after a cyber incident.
Adaptation: Learning from cyber incidents and continuously improving security measures to enhance resilience.
Supply Chain Cyber Resilience ensures that an organization's supply chain remains secure and operational in the face of cyber threats.
ThreatNG strengthens supply chain cyber resilience by providing visibility into external risks associated with an organization's digital ecosystem, including those related to its supply chain.
External Discovery: ThreatNG's external discovery is crucial for supply chain cyber resilience. By performing purely external unauthenticated discovery, ThreatNG helps organizations identify all externally facing assets that attackers could exploit to compromise the organization or its supply chain.
External Assessment: ThreatNG's risk assessments provide valuable insights for managing supply chain cyber risks:
It derives Supply Chain & Third-Party Exposure from Domain Intelligence (Enumeration of Vendor Technologies from DNS and Subdomains), Technology Stack, and Cloud and SaaS Exposure. This allows organizations to assess the cybersecurity posture of their supply chain partners.
Other assessments, such as those for Web Application Hack Susceptibility, Data Leak Susceptibility, and Breach and Ransomware Susceptibility, also contribute to supply chain resilience by helping organizations understand and mitigate risks that could impact the supply chain.
Reporting: ThreatNG's reporting capabilities, including Executive, Technical, and Prioritized reports, enable organizations to communicate effectively about supply chain cyber risks and track improvements in resilience.
Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG's monitoring of external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings is essential for maintaining supply chain cyber resilience. It provides ongoing awareness of emerging threats and vulnerabilities that could impact the supply chain.
Investigation Modules: ThreatNG's investigation modules offer detailed information for assessing and mitigating supply chain cyber risks:
Domain Intelligence: Provides insights into the digital presence and infrastructure of the organization and its potential supply chain partners.
Technology Stack: Identifies the technologies used by the organization and its vendors, which is crucial for understanding potential vulnerabilities and dependencies within the supply chain.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Provides visibility into cloud services and SaaS solutions used by the organization and its suppliers, which is essential for assessing the security of cloud-based supply chain operations.
Intelligence Repositories: ThreatNG uses intelligence repositories that include information relevant to supply chain cyber resilience, such as data on known vulnerabilities and compromised credentials.
Work with Complementary Solutions: While the document does not detail specific integrations, ThreatNG's capabilities can complement other security tools to enhance supply chain cyber resilience. For example, its threat intelligence and vulnerability data can be valuable for risk management platforms and security information and event management (SIEM) systems.
