Counter-measure Offers Cyber Protection for Supply Chains
The supply chain is ground zero for several recent cyber breaches. Hackers, for example, prey on vendors that have remote access to a larger company’s global IT systems, software and networks. In the 2013 Target breach, the attacker infiltrated a vulnerable link: a refrigeration system supplier connected to the retailer’s IT system.
A counter-measure, via a user-ready online portal, has been developed by researchers in the Supply Chain Management Center at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The CyberChain portal is based on a new management science called “cyber supply chain risk management.” It combines conventionally-separate disciplines cybersecurity, enterprise risk management and supply chain management.
Funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the UMD researchers developed the formula, in part, after surveying 200 different-sized companies in various industries.
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