UK businesses exposed to supply chain attacks via third and fourth party breaches.
Almost all of the UK’s FTSE 100 businesses were exposed to supply chain breaches in the last year.
According to research by Security Scorecard, 97% of companies in the UK have a breached entity in their third-party ecosystem, and a breached party in their fourth-party ecosystem.
The report claimed fourth-party vendors create as significant a risk as third parties, who typically receive most of the supply chain scrutiny.
These threats underscore the importance of identifying and assessing the security posture of all parties in a company’s digital ecosystem, as a vendor experiencing a third or fourth-party compromise could affect a large number of its customers, or even customers of its customers, in one fell swoop.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
